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On the second evening of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, Anne Marie Bressler received an email from Amazon that had nothing to do with the latest deals. The message, sent from an automated email address Tuesday, informed her that the Align nutritional supplements she ordered two weeks earlier were …

Parks and Recreation‘s Ben Wyatt once not-quite-famously said of Game of Thrones that it was “not just for fantasy enthusiasts. They’re telling human stories in a fantasy world.” He was correct. And now that Thrones is over, every network is looking to claim the crossover fantasy hit crown. Today, Netflix …

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It’s bright on the moon. That much is clear from a recreation of Apollo 11’s landing that Nvidia (NVDA) posted Friday. The undimmed sun blindingly flashes off the clear polycarbonate of Buzz Aldrin’s and Neil Armstrong’s helmets, then washes out what Aldrin called the “magnificent desolation” of the lunar surface. The graphics-software vendor …

Update July 19, 2019, 3:24PM ET: This article has been updated to correct errors in the section about how to disable Doze Mode. My first Android phone was the original Motorola Droid, which I purchased and loved using despite its abysmal anti-woman marketing campaign. And one of the things I …

Multi-dimensional colors are in again: you see it in smartphones that glisten into different colors as you change angles, game consoles are available in all kinds of color, and now we have shoes that change color when you step outside. The new Converse collection, in collaboration with Chinatown Market, is …

On Friday, President Trump commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a photo opportunity in the Oval Office, where he spent a lot of time questioning his administration’s own policy for deep space human exploration. Surrounded by NASA officials, Moon walkers, and lawmakers, Trump repeatedly asked NASA’s administrator, Jim …

Well, this is a surprise. Hulu had previously announced that its revival of the mystery series Veronica Mars would debut on July 26th, but the service has bumped the release date up by a week. The eight-episode fourth season is streaming now. The series, which first debuted in 2004 on …

Google has been steadily building out its Bluetooth Fast Pair features for the last few years, and the company just revealed the next wave of updates that should make managing compatible Bluetooth devices even better on Android. The biggest update is said to be arriving “later this year” and will …

As of the end of the last season of Cartoon Network’s beloved science-fiction-and-feelings animated series Steven Universe, things seemed pretty ideal for the heroes. The series’ biggest villains broke down and talked about their emotions, and came at least provisionally to terms with their past mistakes. It looked like Steven …