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A prominent Silicon Valley investment banker is suing Theranos, and seeking class-action status
Theranos, the13-year-old health technology startup, is being sued by two more investors who say they were lied to about Theranos’s health and its prospects by...
Fake shopping apps offer back door for thieves
There is no better time than the holidays for scammers to prey on smartphone users. Consumers on this Cyber Monday will fill their digital shopping...
Check Out Models Of The Cosmic Web That Connects Galaxies
Cosmologists have long thought that the universe is made up of galaxies tethered together by gravity. But what on earth does this ‘cosmic web’ actually...
Riders capping e-scooter speed ahead of new rules
E-scooter users who own devices that can travel at excessive speeds have been tuning them back down to the speed limit, ahead of changes to...
Google Maps Changed the Name of Trump Tower to
On Saturday, Google Maps users who typed “Trump Tower” into the service discovered that the President-elect’s famous building had been renamed simply “Dump Tower.” “Google...
The clan chief who hid in a cave for nine years
He spent nine years hiding in a cave in the Highlands, a bounty of £1,000 placed on his head following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden....
The Biggest Solar System Ever Found Is Very, Very Big
Scientists used to suspect a giant planet named “2MASS J2126-8140” was a rogue world, wandering the galaxy without a star to orbit. But it turns...
Farewell, Google+, We Hardly Knew Ye
Google is notorious for its fiendishly difficult and somewhat bizarre interview questions. But failed applicants should take heart: even Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet,...
Snakes Defend Themselves with Shape-Shifting Eyes – Inkfish
Superman donned glasses to disguise himself and blend in with other people. One snake hides its identity using a similar trick: when threatened, it changes...
Instagram Building E-Commerce Team in NYC
Instagram has had an engineering office in New York City since the beginning of this year, but in recent months, the company has been quietly...
How Lucid Dreaming Can Improve Your Motor Skills
Mental training is arguably as important as physical fitness. That argument is gaining strength as a growing body of literature unravels the once-mysterious connections between...
Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars
Mars 500 crew, May 2011. That’s Diego Urbina in back, standing and pointing. Image via European Space Agency All week, Motherboard contributor Daniel Oberhaus is...
Stephen Hawking: We might have 1,000 years left on Earth
This isn’t the first time the theoretical physicist has suggested that humankind must leave Earth in order to survive. In January, during a BBC Reith...
Thanksgiving – Cosmic Variance
Last year we gave thanks for the Lagrangian of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This year, we give thanks for Hubble’s Law, the linear...
Officials kill whale after failed bid to free it from sandbar
The 25-foot humpback whale that has been grounded on a sandbar in Moriches Bay for nearly a week was euthanized Wednesday. Officials killed the sea...
Consciousness Is Made of Atoms, Too – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Illustration by Ivana Rezek / Flickr In his first lecture on physics to freshmen and sophomores at the California Institute of Technology, in 1961-62, Richard...
5 emergency chat services with the power to save lives
Amid billions in AI investment and a rush to make profitable bots by virtually every major tech giant from Apple to Google to Samsung, it...
10 Terrifying Facts About Supervolcanoes
A supervolcano is defined as having the capacity to produce an eruption so big that it can eject around 240 cubic miles of volcanic material...
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