In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in t...
Google will look much different in 2033 - where conversation is the interface rather than the search box. That's according to Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind (which Google bought in 2014), in ...
Experts estimate around 60% of buildings that will exist in 30 years' time have yet to be built. This equals constructing a city the size of Stockholm every week until 2050. However, the construction ...
After a few years of heightened risk, the Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to look pretty average for 2023. That's thanks to an unusually long-lasting weather pattern called La Nina finally end...
A made-up global warming theory discussed in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is spreading on TikTok despite the platform's new policy against climate disinformation, a new report shared exclusively w...
It's now official--the launch company Virgin Orbit is being sold for parts. In a new filing as part of the bankruptcy process, Rocket Lab purchased the company's main production facility in Long Beach...
It's been more than 25 years since the last game in the storied Marathon first-person shooter franchise came out, but developer Bungie is (sort of) returning to its roots by rebooting the IP with a ne...
The percentage of American adults who say they skipped medical care due to costs rose significantly last year, hitting 28 percent. That's up from 24 percent in 2021 and 23 percent in 2020, according t...
CD Baby, an online indie music pioneer and the go-to place for indie music artists looking to get their music into storefronts, has told its customers that it will no longer distribute physical goods,...
El Nino is on its way, and when the warm weather pattern arrives, it could take a $3 trillion toll on the global economy, according to new research. That estimate is based on damages inflicted by El N...
E3 might be canceled this year, but the big gaming companies are forging ahead regardless--either as part of Summer Games Fest or with their own presentations and livestreams. Arguably the top dog the...
It's been a rough start to 2023 for European startups. In the first quarter of the year, dealmaking decelerated, valuations flattened, and exits remained subdued, according to new research.Analysts fr...
After years of resisting the move from LCD to OLED and reportedly going back and forth with LG Display about a potential OLED panel deal, Samsung Electronics has finally decided to buy OLED TV panels ...
There's another massive airbag safety scandal brewing. Last week, General Motors issued a recall for almost a million SUVs in order to replace potentially dangerous airbag inflators, the third such re...
Everybody knows satellite and cable TV is dying right? Cord cutting has been a trend for years, but a new report from Variety highlights just how bad it has gotten. Citing numbers from research firm S...
Overripe bananas could soon become a mere memory -- in the Philippines, at least.Tropic Biosciences, a startup in the UK, has tapped gene editing to banish the browning fruit -- and mitigate the havoc...
ENCINITAS, CALIF.--Starting a new car company isn't especially easy. Tesla struggled for years to become self-sustainable, and newer startups like Rivian and Lucid have run into plenty of their own ro...
Welcome to Edition 5.37 of the Rocket Report! I am happy to share some good news this week, with the Vulcan rocket rolling back to the launch site for a new round of tests, and India making progress o...
After a cryptic tweet from Elon Musk indicating that he'd chosen his successor at Twitter, The Washington Post revealed that sources had confirmed that Twitter's next CEO will be Linda Yaccarino.Yacca...
A dermatologist in New York City has reported the country's first known cases of highly contagious ringworm infections that are resistant to common anti-fungal treatments--and caused by a newly emergi...