Apple will allow Parler to return to its App Store, according to a letter first reported by CNN on Monday. Timothy Powderly, Apple’s senior director for government affairs in the Americas, wrote that since it removed Parler from the App Store in January, Apple had “engaged in substantial conversations” with the team behind the app […]
Microsoft has revealed that it will begin inviting “select” Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to try the Cloud Gaming beta on iPad, iPhone and Windows 10 PCs starting on April 20th. You’ll need to use Chrome, Edge or Safari rather than a native app, but you can use custom touch input if you can’t play […]
Amazon bought nine launches from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance to send its internet-beaming Kuiper satellites into space, the companies announced. It is Amazon’s first launch agreement. The nine rockets will help it start putting the more than 3,200 satellites that will eventually make up its Project Kuiper constellation in low Earth orbit. […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter nailed a successful debut test flight on Mars, engineers confirmed early Monday morning. The tiny spacecraft lifted itself 10 feet off the Martian surface for 39 seconds, marking the first powered flight on another world. The historic demonstration opens up tantalizing possibilities for a new mode of planetary travel that could send […]
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an […]
Amazon is rumored to have canceled the development of its upcoming Lord of the Rings video game. While the game had been in development at Amazon Game Studios in partnership with Tencent’s Leyou Technologies, it’s now been reported that development has been shuttered following a contract dispute between megacorps Amazon and Tencent. An Amazon spokesperson […]
NASA has rescheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter to April 19th at 3:30AM ET, the agency announced Saturday. The four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February 18th with its parent rover Perseverance has seen its first flight delayed a few times. It touched the surface of Mars on April 4th, and […]
Facebook’s content oversight board said that in the “coming weeks,” it’ll deliver a decision on former President Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension from the social network. In a tweet Friday, the group said it’s “extended the case timeline” in order to carefully review the more than 9,000 public comments it received on the case. Facebook banned […]
NASA picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to receive $2.9 billion to build a lunar lander as part of the Artemis mission to send humans to the Moon by 2024, NASA announced today. It’s a major vote of confidence in SpaceX from NASA as no other company received money. There were three major contenders for the project. […]
The Wall Street Journal obtained an advanced look at a letter Apple Music sent to artists. The disclosure was delivered today via the artists’ dashboard in Apple Music and was sent to labels and publishers. It’s a more transparent look at music streaming royalties between the two behemoths in the space. Just last month, an […]
A new leak today reveals another dedicated fitness track from the company that’s in the works, the premium-focused Fitbit Luxe. WinFuture today published images of a product they say is called the Fitbit Luxe. This would mark the high end of Fitbit’s fitness tracker lineup, apparently, with a focus on providing a more premium wearable. […]
Tesla settled a lawsuit against an ex-engineer who copied the source code of its Autopilot driver-assistance tech before taking a job with a Chinese competitor, according to documents filed Thursday with a US district court Reuters has reported. Former Tesla employee Guangzhi Cao will pay the electric vehicle maker an undisclosed sum as part of […]
Apple has announce a new carbon removal initiative in association with Conservation International and Goldman Sachs. The s $200 million fund called Restore Fund aims to remove at least 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually from the atmosphere, equivalent to the amount of fuel used by over 200,000 passenger vehicles, while demonstrating a […]
Apple is adding a variety of new workouts to its $9.99-per-month Fitness Plus service, including programs designed specifically for beginners and workouts tailored for both pregnant and elderly users. Apple is introducing workouts specifically designed for pregnant women and older adults. There are 18 sessions to find across the two categories, with each individual workout […]
Google Earth is debuting a new time-lapse tool that offers up 3D satellite images of the world spanning the past four decades. People can use the feature to see the ravaging effects of climate change. In one instance, users can watch 12 miles of the Columbia Glacier in Alaska melt away from 1984 to 2020. […]