The Japanese billionaire who’ll be Elon Musk’s first paying passenger for a trip to the moon used his deep pockets to get the most retweeted tweet on all time over weekend. Yusaku Maezawa, who was revealed as the mystery SpaceX moon passenger back in September, had 4.8 million retweets as of Monday morning, crushing Carter …
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Who’s in charge of cleaning up all the space junk orbiting Earth? That’s the question the Federal Communications Commission is officially asking as it takes comment on a proposal to review its orbital debris rules. The FCC voted unanimously on Thursday to revamp its 2004 rules. Since the rules took effect more than a decade ago, there have been loads …
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Google Doodle on Thursday celebrated what would’ve been the 110th birthday of Mary G. Ross, the first female Native American engineer. Ross — the great-granddaughter of the Cherokee Chief John Ross — was born in Oklahoma on Aug. 9, 1908, and quickly showed talent in math, and a passion for aviation and science. After Ross earned her master’s degree from …
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This May, sleuths at IEEE Spectrum revealed something exciting — Facebook appeared to be secretly working on an experimental satellite that could beam internet down to Earth using millimeter wave radio signals. Now, Facebook has confirmed to Wired and CNET that the satellite, dubbed Athena, is indeed a Facebook project — and that Facebook is a believer in satellite internet technology. …
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Good news: There are no more 16GB iPhones ($285 at Amazon) in Apple’s lineup. Even the lowest-end iPhone SE and iPhone 6s ($190 at eBay) SKUs come with 32GB, which, let’s face it, is the bare minimum you need these days. Of course, maybe you’ve already got an older model with just 16GB of space. Or you decided to hop …
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Eccentric tech billionaires shooting money into the sky, brands out for a viral video win and fast food companies desperate to prove themselves as tech innovators: When it comes to publicity stunts, the tech world has well and truly delivered over the years. So who won? Who lost? And whose desperate and thinly veiled attempts to appear “with-it” might have …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Recent advancements in wireless charging and over-the-air charging. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch. The latest on the Waymo v. Uber trial. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in New York and producer Bryan VanGelder. Now playing: …
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iMovie for MacOS can be daunting to the amateur iPhone ($285 at Amazon) videographer. For a consumer-grade video editor, the MacOS app is fairly complex. Here are some tips and tricks to start you on the road to becoming an iMovie master. 1. Crop to zoom in Your iPhone can capture video at a resolution of 720p, 1080p or 4K, …
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Jan. 31 will be a trifecta of lunar awesomeness. For the first time in 150 years, there will be a super blue blood moon. This means: The moon will be a “supermoon,” which is when the Earth is closer than usual to its satellite. The moon will be 223,068 miles (358,994 km) from Earth, instead of the average distance of …
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Managing storage on a phone or tablet is one of the more annoying tasks we have to commonly deal with. Users are faced with questions of deciding which apps to delete, how much room it will save, and hunting down files that just aren’t needed. Google’s Files Go app was recently released, and its entire purpose is to help you …
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