Ariana Grande headlines Fortnite's latest in-game concert tour, and it's genuinely a good time
Starting on Friday, Aug. 6, at 6 p.m. ET, anyone and everyone can log into Fortnite to experience being picked up by Ariana Grande’s giant hand while she sings her biggest hits. After last year’s larger-than-life Travis Scott concert, Fortnite is once again expanding the metaverse with the Ariana Grande Rift Tour. Taking place over […]
A MIT robot can help you get dressed — Strictly Robots
MIT scientists developed a new algorithm that assists robots in identifying motion plans, which will keep humans safe while robots help them.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spots a gem of a spiral galaxy
The swirling enormity of spiral galaxies never gets old. Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and shared with the public on Friday, spiral galaxy IC 1954 is a drop-dead gorgeous celestial object that is helping scientists understand how young stars manifest from clouds of cold gas. Spiral galaxy IC 1954 lies approximately 45 million light-years […]
Gigabyte reportedly hit with ransomware attack
PC component maker Gigabyte suffered a ransomware attack on Friday, according to local Taiwanese media. But the incident appears to have only hit a few internal servers, not the company’s production systems. The affected servers are already back online, Gigabyte told Taiwan’s United Daily News. Once the attack was detected, the company’s IT security teams […]
What to expect at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2021 event
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Unpacked 2021 event is nearly here and it’s ready to put the spotlight back on foldables. We don’t have to rely on leaks all that much to figure out what’s coming. A rather obvious media invitation and accompanying press releases have pretty much confirmed what’s on deck: Two foldable phones along with […]
High tech robot cameras find new angles for historic moments at the Olympics
Getty Images worked with a large range of Canon robotic cameras and lenses to capture incredibly moving aerial and underwater shots during the Tokyo Olympics. It took around 30 seconds from the click of the camera to each image being available to view online.
Get a free 128GB microSD card when you buy a Nintendo Switch Lite from Walmart
SAVE $49.96: Through Saturday, Aug. 7, you’ll get a free 128GB SanDisk microSD card when you buy a Nintendo Switch Lite from Walmart. Running out of storage on a Nintendo Switch is like triggering a Blood Moon in Breath of the Wild — it becomes inevitable after you play for a while. With only 32GB […]
This Alienware laptop is at a bigger discount than last week, plus more cheap laptop deals
OUR TOP PICK: Alienware m15 R4 — save $300 BEST APPLE DEAL: 2020 Apple MacBook Air — save $100 BEST FOR BUSINESS: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 — save $925.60 BEST 2-IN-1 DEAL: Asus Chromebook Flip C434 — save $140.99 What’s better than a great laptop? A great laptop that’s cheap. Nowadays, even budget […]
Ford F-150 Lightning has a secret desk space
As the concept of “work from home” expands everywhere, the latest workplace is the driver’s seat of your truck, because the recently announced electric Ford F-150 Lightning truck has a hidden workspace. The first electric truck from Ford made its California debut on Thursday at Ford’s Silicon Valley offices. It won’t start production in Michigan […]
How the space station flipped out of control—and why that's a big problem
The International Space Station flipped over on its back on July 29. This was a significant, though fortunately not disastrous, nearly one-hour episode for humanity’s largest and oldest space outpost. The station slowly turned over one and a half times. (Or as NASA describes it, the space station experienced a “total attitude change” of around […]