The Galaxy S20 and S20+ will soon be forgotten, if Samsung has anything to do with it. Go to its online store in the U.S., and there are a few discounted, unlocked S20+ models remaining, while the S20 is listed as out of stock everywhere. It’s the same in the U.K., where if you try […]
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Microsoft Edge gets a big update with new themes, history and tab sync, and more
Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge browser is getting one of its biggest updates since it was introduced out of beta last year. Version 88 of the browser now finally supports history and tab sync across devices and also sports some new themes and a password generator. A feature long available on Google Chrome, the new support […]
Magic: The Gathering’s digital history, from first build to end step
It was easy to get into Magic: The Gathering when I was 11 years old. The air was crisp, and the leaves were turning, as September 1994 rolled into October. The game was taking over my schoolyard thanks to Ms. Dierdre Lukyn, the coolest teacher at the school. Like any young soul who wants to […]
Uppity: The Willy T Ribbs Story is racing history more people should know
Willy T. Ribbs in victory lane at Daytona International Speedway after winning the Paul Revere 250 SCCA Trans-Am race, July 3, 1984. ISC Images Archives via Getty Images In 1984 (L-R) Tom Gloy, Greg Pickett and Willy T. Ribbs drove Mercury Capris for car owner Jack Roush during the SCCA Trans-AM season. The trio combined […]
Meet Bob and Doug, the NASA astronauts about to make history. They’re hilarious (and kinda goofy).
The arcs of their careers and personal lives have for years run on parallel tracks, like twin strands of DNA, winding from the military to test pilot school to the same NASA astronaut class, where both met their wives. Now Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are about to fly together in one of the most […]
As it prepares to fly humans, Elon Musk’s SpaceX faces the biggest challenge in its history
The company was never supposed to succeed. Even its founder gave it odds few gamblers would take — 1 in 10. But Elon Musk decided to go all in anyway, investing some $ 100 million of his own money, over the protests of his friends, family and the basic logic that said a private entrepreneur […]
New images reveal more about the history of water on Mars
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a dried-up river valley on Mars named Nirgal Vallis. This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered on November 16, 2018, during Mars Express orbit 18818. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Two new sets of images from NASA and the European Space Agency […]
How do I recover deleted Safari history on Iphone
The users of iOS devices and Mac computers are highly dependent on Safari as their browser. Safari is known to store the browsing history and hence it is easy for the user to pick up from where they left. If you have accidentally deleted the browsing history from Safari on your iPhone or iPad, it […]
Track Bill Nye’s LightSail 2 solar spaceship in real time as it makes history
The Planetary Society The LightSail 2 solar-powered spacecraft is officially operational — it’s now in orbit and made its first contact with Earth on Tuesday. You’ll now be able to track the ship live using an online dashboard. The LightSail 2 is the result of a $ 1 million Kickstarter campaign organized and led by […]
Apple’s Iconic iPhone: A Visual History
With the 12th anniversary of the shipment of the first iPhone, let’s take a look back at how Apple’s groundbreaking mobile phone has evolved over the past dozen years. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Twelve years ago, Apple finally released the […]
Minecraft may be best-selling video game in history with 176 million copies sold
Minecraft, which launched 10 years ago for the PC, has sold more than 176 million copies, which possibly makes it the best-selling video game of all time. Microsoft announced the milestone in an Xbox Wire post that celebrates Minecraft‘s 10th birthday. Despite being around for a decade, the game’s popularity remains strong, helped by its […]
Google to ‘auto-delete’ web tracking history
Google is to offer users the option of automatically deleting their search and location history after three months. The search giant already allows users to manually delete the data it scoops up when they use its products such as YouTube, Maps and Search. Now, in a bid to offer more control over personal data, it […]
A milestone in the history of particle physics: Why does matter exist?
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider CERN Antimatter is a strange beast. Physicists believe that for every particle that exists in our universe, there is an antiparticle which is identical but has the opposite charge. But when antimatter meets matter, both particles are annihilated in a flash of energy. This leads to a tricky conundrum: if matter […]
Facebook and Instagram are finally recovering from one of the worst outages in their history
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toboggans down the Great Wall of China.Facebook Facebook and Instagram are recovering from huge outages on Wednesday. Instagram tweeted: “Anddddd… we’re back.” Reports of disruption on Facebook declined significantly. Facebook said the problems were not the result of a DDoS attack, while NBC Bay Area reported that the issue was caused […]