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SpaceX has won the launch contract for NASA’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid known as Psyche, the space agency announced, including launch services and other mission-related costs valued at $117 million remarkably low for a mission of this scale. The Psyche mission will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, which will launch from Launch […]
Starting this spring, Microsoft said it plans to make productivity the focus of the digital assistant. As part of the shift, Cortana will lose some of its more consumer-facing features, such as the ability to play music and control smart home devices. More significantly, the company plans to remove the digital assistant from its Launcher […]
Netflix has taken an aggressive step in its fight with publishing company Chooseco. It’s asking a court to cancel the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark, arguing that it’s a generic descriptor rather than a meaningful brand. Last year, the Netflix got into hot water with its previous interactive show Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Chooseco filed an […]
Google’s Stadia streaming service hasn’t had the smoothest launch. Between missing features and less than stellar performance, the platform is, at the moment, more about future promise than current potential. The latest update to the Stadia app hints that some of those features might be coming soon, including the highly anticipated free tier, YouTube streaming, […]
Amazon this week told Reuters that it has banned the sale of more than a million products in recent weeks that claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of additional listings attempting to price-gouge customers have also been taken down, the online retailer added. “There is no place for price gouging […]
Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea because of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Insider reported. Amazon is asking employees to defer all nonessential travel. Both companies had already halted employee travel to China, and Google temporarily closed down its offices in China at the end of January. […]
Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 phones went on sale in its home region of South Korea yesterday, and things have got off to a slow start. According to the South Korea Herald, sales of the Galaxy S20 phones were down 50 percent compared to their predecessors a year earlier. While the latest devices sold around 70,800 […]
According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse, Apple’s iPhone XR the cheapest of the three iPhones released in 2018 was the best-selling smartphone in the world last year, taking 3 percent of the global market. Apple will likely be even happier with the performance of the iPhone 11. Praised for having many of the iPhone 11 […]
Facebook is the latest tech company to cancel an event due to the coronavirus outbreak. F8 was originally scheduled to take place on May 5th and May 6th later this year, but it’s not going to happen this year. Facebook said that the “growing concerns around COVID-19” made it necessary to cancel the “in-person” component […]
Plague Inc., where you create a disease with the goal of spreading it across the world, has been removed from the App Store in China amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. “We’ve just been informed that Plague Inc. ‘includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China’ and has been […]
Spotify is rolling out a new look to its iPhone app. The adjustments prioritize common icons and visible indicators over written phrases, which Spotify says makes the app a extra accessible expertise for customers all around the world. First, Spotify has ditched the word-based “shuffle play” button that seems on an artist or playlist web […]
Google has asked the US government for a license to deal with the Chinese giant once again. After Huawei was added to an entity list last May that prevented it from doing business with US companies without a license, the firm was unable to use Google Mobile Services (GMS), such as the Play Store, Gmail, […]
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is not even on the market yet, but reviewers from publications including PC Mag have already experienced bugs with the cameras. Samsung has now responded, saying that it’s working on a fix. “The Galaxy S20 features a groundbreaking, advanced camera system,” Samsung told The Verge. “We are constantly working to optimize performance […]
Apple will be opening its first retail outlet in India in 2021, CEO Tim Cook has advised to shareholders, marking the iPhone maker’s initial self-owned outlet in an important potential market. Apple was waiting for government approval to run the branded stores itself rather than relying on a local partner. Apple doesn’t want “somebody else […]
Streaming accounted for nearly 80 percent of American music revenue in 2019 according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s just-released full-year music report. The RIAA has reported that streaming represented 79 percent ($8.8 billion) of American music revenue in 2019, compared to 75 percent the year before. And crucially, more of those were paid […]