Airbnb may become a headache for more than just traditional hoteliers and travel booking sites. That comes as the company has started thinking about day-to-day use of its app. Most recently, the startup has been expanding its “Experiences” offering, in… Continue Reading
We heard last year that Apple was exploring the possibility of developing augmented reality hardware, and it seems like the company might be edging closer to that goal in the months since that initial report. In November 2016, Bloomberg’s sources… Continue Reading
In recent months, there’s been growing evidence that Pluto is hiding a liquid water ocean beneath its frozen surface. New models by researchers at Brown University support this hypothesis, and take it one mind-boggling step further: Pluto’s ocean may be… Continue Reading
Proving the sharing economy is dominating every aspect of our lives, we now have an app for cleaning up dog poop. The new app, Pooper (seriously), is designed to keep dog owners from having to pick up after their four-legged friends… Continue Reading
In the new, free-for-all era of dark matter research, the controversial idea that dark matter is concentrated in thin disks is being rescued from scientific oblivion. The post A Disk of Dark Matter Might Run Through Our Galaxy appeared first… Continue Reading
Anyone who has ever gone fishing knows that you don’t always catch what you’re trying to catch. In industrial fishing, that problem is called “bycatch,” and it can have grave consequences. Read more… All articles