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Apple’s $29 iPhone battery replacement program: Apple says batteries are available ‘without delay’
Anyone with an iPhone 6 or later can get a new battery in their phone for $29. Here's how Apple's program works.
Best web browsers 2018: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera go head-to-head
The web browser is by far the most important piece of software on your PC—at least for most users. Unless you’re at a workstation crunching numbers or editing the next Star Wars you probably spend the majority of your computer time staring at a web a...
Major Google News overhaul starts rolling out today on web, Android, and iOS
After years of minor updates, Google is finally rolling out a major overhaul of its News platform. Announced at Google I/O on Tuesday, the new Google News is more personal and customizable, made to better surface the news you care about from the sour...
Android P: More AI, fewer disruptions, and a nod to the iPhone X
Android P is shaping up to be a substantial update for Google’s smartphone operating system, with new AI-powered features, a major navigation change, and a suite of tools aimed at curing smartphone addiction.Google released a in March, but announced...
SpinLaunch raises $40M from Airbus, Google and others for space catapult
SpinLaunch’s hangar is home to a vehicle that’s designed to be launched from a catapult. (SpinLaunch Photo)
A stealthy Silicon Valley startup called says it’s raised a total of $40 million from a high-profile array of investors to get a space catapul...
NASA loses contact with its dust-choked Opportunity rover on Mars, but stay tuned
This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian sky blotting out the sun from the Opportunity rover’s point of view, with the right side simulating Opportunity’s current view in the current dust storm. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU)
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Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold revisits NASA asteroid argument in peer-reviewed paper
in his office at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., Nathan Myhrvold shows off a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which was left behind by an asteroid impact in 2013. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle)
Nathan Myhrvold is back, and this time he...
Spaceflight strikes deal with Rocket Lab for three satellite launch extravaganzas
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts off from its New Zealand launch pad in January. (Rocket Lab Photo via Spaceflight)
Seattle-based has partnered with for three launches over the next year, including the first launch for BlackSky’s .
All three launch...
Spacewalkers install HD video cameras to monitor future SpaceX and Boeing trips
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold looks out from the International Space Station’s Quest airlock at the beginning of a spacewalk. (Oleg Artemyev / Roscosmos via Twitter)
News Brief: NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold installed new high-definitio...
Axiom Space offers space station vacations starting in 2020, for $55 million
An artist’s conception shows a space traveler floating in zero gravity. (Axiom Space Illustration)
How much would you pay for a 10-day stay in low Earth orbit? Houston-based has set a $55 million price point for trips that it says could begin as earl...