Facebook is becoming a bit more like Nextdoor in an effort to boost its groups feature. The only problem is that Facebook appears to be borrowing one of Nextdoor’s more controversial concepts: giving more power to community moderators. On Wednesday, the company announced it was making a major enhancement... Read more

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope during deployment in 1990. NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed The Hubble Space Telescope has spent over three decades scanning the cosmos, bringing us glorious images and data from our universe. The spacecraft is showing its age. The Hubble team is now troubleshooting a problem with the telescope’s... Read more

Using stereo cameras and detection algorithms, Mesobot parses its subjects’ movements and follows them. Yoerger and his colleagues demonstrated the robot’s capabilities in Monterey Bay at 650 feet deep, as it detected and then pursued a hunting jellyfish. Even more impressive, for a half hour it surreptitiously followed a... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Investments in “intangible assets” like R&D, digital transformation, and employee training are strongly correlated with increased productivity and growth, according to a study McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) released today. An MGI survey conducted in March asked 861 corporate executives... Read more

If you found yourself in an hourslong line for expensive gas last month, then you’re probably familiar with the damage that ransomware attacks can do. The federal government certainly is. During President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the two leaders said they... Read more

Are you ready to start paying back your student loans? Sarah Tew/CNET President Joe Biden extended the student loan forbearance once he took office in January. The updated pause lasts until the end of September. With the possibility of Biden forgiving student loan debt appearing to be unlikely, borrowers will... Read more

The Nintendo Switch had a powerful start. Right out of the gate, the company released banger after banger after banger of a game, each delivering that trademark Nintendo feeling of recess time on a well-engineered fantasy playground. It was almost overwhelming—to traverse the fantastical world of The Legend of... Read more

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Some experts have expressed concern that machine learning tools could be used to create deepfakes, or media that takes a person in an existing video, photo, or audio file and replaces them with someone else’s likeness. The fear is... Read more

It’s hard to argue that everything going on in financial markets lately is particularly smart. The question is, how silly should we let things get? Meme stocks like GameStop are still swinging wildly as they go in and out of fashion on Reddit. AMC recently told people buying its... Read more