Fossils found in Chile are from the bizarre dog-sized dinosaur species called Stegouros that had a unique slashing tail weapon. Lucas Jaymez In a southern and sparsely populated region of Chile, scientists excavated the skeletal remains of a naturally armored dinosaur that lived over 70 million years ago, during... Read more

In November 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey tweeted from the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that he would be moving to “Africa” for up to six months in 2020. His high-profile monthlong tour of the continent, where he visited Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Ethiopia, had come to... Read more

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Verizon 5G Home is now available in 62 cities. Angela Lang/CNET Verizon’s 5G Home service has expanded into two more cities, the carrier announced Thursday. Parts of Dayton, Ohio, and Jacksonville, Florida, will now have access to Verizon 5G Home, which touts download speeds of up to 1Gbps with... Read more

For years, Facebook has given its users the option of protecting their accounts with two-factor authentication. Soon, the platform’s highest-risk users will no longer have a choice: The social network will require them to lock up their profiles with more than just a password. Good. Facebook’s parent company, Meta,... Read more

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Nintendo is adding Paper Mario to its Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library on December... Read more

Nvidia announced the agreement with Arm in September 2020. Nvidia The US Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it’s suing to block Nvidia’s takeover of chip designer Arm. The deal, worth $40 billion, would give Nvidia “control over the computing technology and designs that rival firms rely on to... Read more

Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. The company uses a decentralized finance protocol known as MonoX that lets users trade digital currency tokens without some of the requirements of... Read more

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia‘s $75 billion takeover of Arm Holdings... Read more

When Spotify Wrapped came out in 2017, it hit my group chats like breaking news. A friend frantically sent me a screenshot showing they were in the top 1 percent of Frank Ocean listeners with a message, “CAN U BELIEVE THIS,” followed by a deluge of texts from other... Read more