Month: December 2020
Virgin Galactic aborts first powered spaceflight from New Mexico spaceport
This morning, Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic had to abort its first powered test flight of its spaceplane from the company’s home in New Mexico, bringing the vehicle home before it could reach space. During the flight, the spaceplane’s engine cut out too early and the vehicle’s two…
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The Morning After: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ got its first post-launch patch
This week’s news swung between some ridiculous extremes. CD Projekt Red released Cyberpunk 2077 without addressing many of the issues people had with its design choices, marketing, development crunch or performance on older consoles — and still set… Source
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Twitter briefly restricts Trump’s disputed election tweets
It looked like Twitter was adding further restrictions to President Trump’s Twitter account on Saturday, as some users noticed the ability to like, retweet or reply to his tweets with “disputed” labels was not working. Copying the URL to one of the disputed tweets also appeared to be disabled, and…
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This Week in Apps: Apple scolds adtech, Facebook hit with antitrust suits, Twitter buys Squad
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including third-party Chinese…
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We did the impossible thing, but not the hard thing
When researchers at pharmaceutical companies around the world started developing COVID-19 vaccines, experts reminded everyone to temper expectations. Vaccines usually take years. The frontrunners were made using unproven technology, and there were dozens of ways things could go wrong. The Food and Drug Administration said it would be fine with…
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The 14 Best Google Assistant Speakers for Your Home
From smart displays to portable boomboxes, Google’s smart voice assistant comes in all shapes and sizes. Here are our favorites. Source
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