Daily Telescope: A Wolf-Rayet star puts on a howling light show
I'd like to see it go boom.
Source: arstechnica.com
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Which 'Cheap' Electric Cars With Over 250 Miles Of Range Would We Buy?
On this InsideEVs podcast, we discuss GM's commitment to launching new plug-in hybrids and offer up our opinion on which cheap EV with at least 250 miles that we think you should buy.
Source: insideevs.com
NASA Exploring Private Sector Options for Missions to Mars
NASA is asking private companies to sketch out how they'd complete missions to Mars.
Source: reason.com
Millionaire Mars missions
We're one step closer to a private, for-profit, libertarian utopia on Mars. Well, sort of anyway. This week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories asked private…
Source: biztoc.com
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
Source: arstechnica.com
No, '10G internet' is not a thing
Comcast received a slap on the wrist this week for its 'misleading' Xfinity 10G Network brand campaign.
Comcast Xfinity National Cable Telecommunications Association National Advertising Division 5g Network National Advertising Review Board Ars Technica
Source: popsci.com
Lawmakers want to know how TurboTax used $94 million in tax breaks
Letters between Intuit, maker of TurboTax, and lawmakers shared exclusively with The Verge show a dispute over free tax filing and millions of dollars in tax credits.
United States Elizabeth Warren Sasan Goodarzi Bernie Sanders Richard Blumenthal Representative Katie Porter
Source: theverge.com
Exploring Reddit's third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse
Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore."
Source: arstechnica.com
Chris Dixon and blockchain optimism in Read Write Own
The author of Read Write Own offers a more hopeful alternative for the internet.
Source: fortune.com
Maker of Dubious $56K Alzheimer's Drug Offers Cognitive Test No One Can Pass
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Do you ever forget things, like a doctors appointment or a lunch date? Do you sometimes struggle to think of the right word for something common? Do you ever feel more anxious or irritable than you typically do? Do you ever feel overwhelmed whe...
Source: slashdot.org