As more stores adopt the technology, opposition grows, along with legislation limiting its use.

Last weekend, Richard Branson described his bounce up to low-earth orbit as making space “more accessible to all.” It’s laughably ironic for a billionaire to co-opt the language of inclusivity to describe the privatization of space flight. However, mainstream media shared the speech far and wide, largely uncritically, with few journalists pointing out that this carnival ride for the uber-rich was funded with over $200 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies.

Researchers blame poaching and hunting far beyond quotas after species dropped from endangered list

Spraying streets with a special treatment could help reduce city heat and the public health dangers that come with it.

Google has a lot of moving parts behind the scenes, trying to keep malware off of the Play Store. But with seven figures of apps posting and updating

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said it has resolved a technical issue that caused some users trouble accessing Facebook, Messenger, Workplace and Instagram on Saturday. "We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience," a spokesperson told Reuters.

In their death throes, roughly 97% of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered white dwarf is being hailed as the most "extreme" one of these on record, cramming a frightful amount of mass into a surprisingly small package.

Marine energy's current footprint is tiny compared to other renewable technologies like solar and wind. 

"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote one QAnon user.

The spectator responsible reportedly fled the scene and is yet to be found by authorities

Goldman Sachs’s efforts to assist hedge funds and other big institutional clients wager on bitcoin have progressed. Recently, the bank has begun trading bitcoin futures alongside Galaxy Digital, the crypto investment firm. The move suggests that clients of one of the world’s leading investment banks, Goldman Sachs, will soon have access to a new asset class that has piqued the interest of billionaires and digital currency enthusiasts alike as reported by CNBC.

General Motors Co (GM.N) on Wednesday boosted its spending on electric and autonomous vehicles, pulled ahead plans for two U.S. battery plants and forecast stronger-than-expected second-quarter profits.

MLB is expected to announce Tuesday it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league, sources familiar with the plans told ESPN.

The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it. The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively frantic pace of hardware innovation over the past few years. In that same time frame, the software of the iPad, especially its ability to allow users to use multiple apps at once and in its onramps for professional software makers, has come under scrutiny for an apparently slower pace.

Facebook is no stranger to VR with Oculus, but it looks like the company is preparing for some big news.

The hardware on the new iPad Pro is absolutely stellar, far beyond any competition in the tablet space. But, Apple's newly announced iPadOS 15 is so decidedly not-pro that it's fair to question whether the company will ever fully take the training wheels off of its restrictive software.

As a renewed sense of optimism sweeps the US this summer with lower reported Covid-19 cases, the US surgeon general has issued a warning for those not vaccinated: Don't let your guard down quite yet.