NBA Suspends Season After All-Star Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus

RELATED STORIES The NBA is suspending the current 2019-20 season after All-Star player Rudy Gobert preliminarily tested positive for the coronavirus. “The NBA announced that a player on the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for COV-19,” the league said in a statement on Wednesday. According to reports, that player is seven-year veteran Gobert, who […]

Twitter tests feature that lets you hide unwanted replies

Twitter already hides superfluous replies to your tweets, now it’s toying with handing that power to the masses. Software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who has a knack for discovering what social media apps are building, outed the user moderation feature in a tweet on Thursday. A Twitter senior product manager has since confirmed the function […]

Rocket Report: Rogozin’s crazy promise, SpaceX tests Mars engine, SLS slips

Enlarge / The might Delta IV Heavy rocket takes to the skies. (credit: Aurich Lawson/United Launch Alliance) Welcome to Edition 1.35 of the Rocket Report! The leader of Russia’s space program, Dmitry Rogozin, has promised his president that the country can double its launch total this year. And if you believe that, well, we’ve got […]

Outlander Finale: A Tense Moment Tests the Frasers — 2019 FIRST LOOK

If you’ve read Drums of Autumn, the fourth book in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander novel series, you’ve probably got a pretty good idea of what’s going on in the exclusive photo above. And if you haven’t read the book on which the fourth season of Starz’s historical drama is based, you’re in for quite a surprise in a few […]

Facebook tests a live video shopping feature

Facebook is testing out a new feature that lets merchants on Facebook show off their wares in live videos. Reports of the test first surfaced online but the company has since confirmed the feature to TechCrunch. Through the feature, merchants can notify their Page followers about their broadcasts, demonstrate or describe their products in live […]

Trump admin. approves seismic tests for Atlantic offshore oil drilling

Enlarge / Humpback whales (credit: NOAA) On Friday, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) approved a plan to make it legal for five companies to conduct seismic testing off the Atlantic coast, in an area stretching from Delaware to Florida. The seismic testing is an initial step toward leasing federal offshore waters to oil companies that […]