NASA received a critical signal from one of its most distant spacecrafts this morning, confirming that the vehicle has just flown by a tiny frozen rock in the outer reaches of the Solar System. From a report: That space probe, named New Horizons, has now made history. Currently located more than 4 billion miles from…

Commentary: As the tech world descends on Las Vegas next week, these are the issues that dominate the landscape. …read more Source:: CNet

A series of auctions revealed that Facebook users value the company’s service so highly that it would take on average more than $1,000 to convince them to deactivate their accounts for a year, according to a recent paper published in PLOS One. From a report: This doesn’t mean much for the company’s stock market valuation,…

The last few days have seen drone stories in the news, as London’s Gatwick airport remained closed for a couple of days amid a spate of drone reports. The police remained baffled, arrested a couple who turned out to be blameless, and finally admitted that there was a possibility the drone could not have existed…

Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan have sold close to 30 million shares of Facebook to fund an ambitious biomedical research project, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a goal of curing all disease within a generation. A less publicized component of that US$5 billion program includes work on brain-machine interfaces, devices…

Last year was the search giant’s first official appearance in years at the massive tech show. With round two, Google looks to make an even bigger splash. …read more Source:: CNet

What if Avengers: Infinity War had a Bandersnatch option? …read more Source:: CNet

Here are 10 top malware trends to watch for in the New Year. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Here at Hackaday we are willing to bet that in a universe free of all monetary constraints, many of our readers would leave their day jobs in order to pursue their hardware hobbies full time. Obviously this is only practical for a lucky minority of people (for a wide variety of reasons) but we’re willing…

Yesterday’s sci-fi has become today’s crappy kit, apart from space colonies and AI Feature Welcome to 2019, the year in which Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi film masterpiece Blade Runner is set. And as predicted in this loose adaptation of a 1968 Philip K. Dick story, we have flying cars.… …read more Source:: TheRegister