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Here come the US Space Corps

Star Trek has Starfleet, Star Wars has the Imperial Navy, and Halo has the United Nations Space Command. But for the moment, real-life Earthlings of the United States don’t have a cool sci-fi name... → Read More

Facebook introduces profile picture protections to stop people from misusing images

Facebook is introducing new protections for profile pictures for users in India, in a bid to stop people from copying, sharing, or otherwise misusing their images. Users who elect to guard their... → Read More

Now you can build shared Spotify playlists with your friends in Facebook Messenger

Spotify has launched a new feature for Facebook Messenger that lets you create playlists of songs with your friends. Group Playlists for Messenger uses the existing Spotify Chat extension for... → Read More

HBO is in talks for a Watchmen TV series with Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof

Who watches the Watchmen? Maybe you, soon, on HBO. The network is reportedly in talks with Damon Lindelof — co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers — to adapt the seminal graphic novel for the small... → Read More

The 21 best game trailers of E3 2017

Rejoice, for E3 is over for another year, and we can all take a breath. The world’s biggest video games trade show brings such a flurry of news that it’s hard to stop and take it in before you’re... → Read More

Amazon’s new Alexa-enabled Dash Wand is basically free for Prime subscribers

Amazon has released the Dash Wand, a new Alexa-enabled device that can help you scan grocery barcodes, convert measurements, and order household essentials from Amazon just by using your voice. The... → Read More

Facebook celebrates the GIF’s 30th birthday by making the format usable in comments

Happy birthday to the GIF! The venerable file format turns 30 today, and Facebook is taking the opportunity to add a few GIF-related features to its service. Users could already post GIFs in status... → Read More

Instagram tries to beat secret celebrity #sponcon with new label

Instagram is adding a new label to better differentiate paid-for posts from regular content. The label — which features the words "Paid partnership with..." — will appear above sponsored posts and... → Read More

Uber board member resigns after making sexist remark in meeting about pervasive sexism

The Uber board member who made a sexist remark during today’s meeting about the prevalence of sexism within the company has resigned from his position. David Bonderman’s resignation from Uber’s... → Read More

Bethesda’s new DLC marketplace won’t sell existing Skyrim and Fallout mods

Bethesda has clarified its new Creation Club system — the program that will sell additional content to both The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Fallout 4 — specifying that the service will not be used to... → Read More

Taylor Swift is putting her albums back on all streaming services

Taylor Swift is making her albums available on all music streaming services tonight, including Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon Music, three years after she pulled her back catalog from Spotify. The pop... → Read More

Apple’s latest iPhone ad is a love note to Earth

Apple’s newest ad features an array of short clips, shot on iPhone by regular users, underscored by the calming voice of astronomer Carl Sagan. The crisp and clear clips — of forests, beaches, and... → Read More

Apple will put its screen repair machines in 400 third-party service centers by end of 2017

Apple will put its proprietary screen repair machines in hundreds of third-party locations by the end of 2017, making it easier for customers to fix cracked, damaged, or otherwise broken iPhone... → Read More

You can watch the first episode of Apple’s reality TV show Planet of the Apps now

The first episode of Planet of the Apps — Apple’s Shark Tank-esque reality TV show about app developers — is now available on Apple Music and iTunes. Anyone will be able to watch the first episode... → Read More

Please don’t make me talk to voice assistants anymore

Apple’s biggest announcement at WWDC this week was the HomePod — a Siri-enabled speaker that will compete against Amazon’s Echo. The conference also brought updates to Apple’s voice assistant that... → Read More

Palmer Luckey is developing new border control technology

Just a few months after being edged out of Facebook, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has a new startup, in a new industry — defense. The New York Times reports that Luckey is working on surveillance... → Read More

EA's new Need for Speed: Payback looks very fast and fairly furious

With fast cars, silly stunts, and a seemingly endless string of sequels, Need for Speed already had a claim to be the gaming world's Fast and the Furious, even going so far as to lend its name to a... → Read More

Alphabet’s Waymo begins testing self-driving trucks

Anything Uber can do, Waymo — Alphabet's self-driving car company that was spun off from Google — can apparently do, too. BuzzFeed News reports that Waymo is testing its own autonomous truck... → Read More

Nintendo’s online Switch service will launch in 2018 and cost $20 a year

Nintendo has shed more light on the paid online subscription service it’s planning to offer for its Switch console, confirming US pricing, and stating that it will launch in full at some point in... → Read More

Silk Road founder will get life in prison after losing court appeal

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is set to serve life in prison after he lost his court appeal this week. Ulbricht earned seven convictions — including money laundering and narcotics conspiracy —... → Read More