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Coffee Meets Bagel announces data breach on Valentine's Day

Dating app meet data hack.

14/02/2019

USA

Tickets to Mars will eventually cost less than $500,000, Elon Musk says

And the return ticket is free!

14/02/2019

USA

NASA's Mars Opportunity rover declared dead after record-setting mission

Space agency planning new rover mission in 2020 to search for evidence of past life on the Red Planet.

13/02/2019

USA

'No one can own a dance step': Fortnite maker pushes back against lawsuit

Rapper 2 Milly filed a lawsuit last year, claiming his dance "Milly Rock" was recreated as a dance emote in "Fortnite."

13/02/2019

USA

Apple's AirPods, once a punchline, emerge as a 'flex' and a financial force

After an inauspicious start, Airods have "gone viral," according to one analyst, and CEO Tim Cook has described them as a "cultural phenomenon."

13/02/2019

World News

Philippine journalist at odds with Duterte arrested for libel

Philippine journalist at odds with Duterte arrested for libel

13/02/2019

USA

Another immense crater may have been found deep under Greenland's ice sheet

A bowl-shaped feature about 23 miles across lies buried under more than a mile of ice.

12/02/2019

USA

Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China

"It's kind of a new arms race," said Theresa Payton, U.S. chief information officer under President George W. Bush.

12/02/2019

USA

Mysterious Ultima Thule object isn't quite a 'snowman' after all

"The new images are creating scientific puzzles about how such an object could even be formed."

11/02/2019

USA

Why solar farms of the future may float on water

New report spotlights benefits of installing solar panels on bodies of water.

11/02/2019

USA

YouTube announces it will no longer recommend conspiracy videos

YouTube will no longer recommend videos "claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."

10/02/2019

USA

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson sets date of first trip into space

British billionaire plans to make a suborbital flight on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

09/02/2019

USA

Chinese satellite snaps rare photo of moon's far side with Earth

Eye-popping image evokes other iconic space photos, including the famous "Earthrise" portrait taken during the Apollo 8 mission.

08/02/2019

USA

Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of 'extortion and blackmail'

Emails published by Bezos appear to show that the tabloid publisher threatened to publish embarrassing photos if Bezos didn't back off an investigation.

08/02/2019

USA

What does Wall Street have against Twitter?

Despite reporting its first full year of profitability since going public, Twitter stock tanked 10 percent on Thursday.

07/02/2019

USA

Global warming will cause the world's oceans to change color. Here's why.

Declining populations of phytoplankton, the basis of the marine food chain, will alter the seawater hues, potentially decimating fisheries.

07/02/2019

USA

Hot streak: NASA warns global warming shows no signs of slowing

New data finds that "global warming shows no sign of slowing down or stopping."

07/02/2019

World News

Disability-themed emojis coming to platforms this year

Disability-themed emojis coming to platforms this year.

06/02/2019

USA

Instacart changes policy, will not use tips to subsidize worker pay

On Monday, NBC News reported that Instacart and other delivery companies including Doordash were using customer tips to subsidize the fees the company paid to drivers.

06/02/2019

USA

NYPD demands Google stop revealing drunken driving checkpoints

"Revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers, their passengers and the general public at risk," the police department wrote.

06/02/2019