Category: Science & Tech

Chinese scientists have revealed plans to build and launch in orbit a space solar station that could capture the Sun’s rays 24/7.

Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. The announcement comes on the heels of a December report that the two-year relationship between Facebook and its fact checkers was in disarray. 

In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company’s user metrics, and that the company could be overestimating the number of users by as much as 50%.

At CES 2019, the transport firm Continental pushed the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology, showed how a driverless utility van could be used to stage and deploy delivery robot dogs, taking packages from the vehicle to a customer’s doorstep. Automating the last mile serves as a warning that thousands of gig-economy jobs are about to be eliminated…

For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere (the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun) and entered Interstellar Space. Voyager 2 is now slightly more than 11 billion miles from Earth.