Volkswagen has agreed to pay at least $1.2 billion to compensate US owners for lying about emissions on 3.0-liter diesel vehicles. Owners of 20,000 model-year 2009-2012 cars — which can’t be fixed to meet legal standards — will be offered a buyback…
Sony knows that you probably don’t have the camera and Move controllers needed to make use of its PlayStation VR headset, so it’s reviving and expanding its virtual reality bundles to help get you started. On top of the original bundle, which include…
A story about two estranged brothers facing off on a Civil War battlefield might seem like a strange fit for a virtual reality film, but My Brother’s Keeper isn’t your typical VR movie. The PBS film, which premiered at Sundance last week, uses its pe…
Kickstarter today announced that it has purchased Huzza, the live-streaming startup that helped create Kickstarter Live. Like Twitch for creators, Live is a video platform that helps facilitate Q+As and connect people asking for money to people that…
Never in a million years did I think I’d see Bill Nye and Buzz Aldrin walk a runway together, but that’s exactly what happened. Both were part of designer Nick Graham’s Fall 2017 fashion show in New York City, where he revealed his new “Life on Mars:…
In a move designed to cement the company as more than just a car maker, Tesla has dropped the “Motors” from its name. The firm posted the necessary SEC paperwork this morning and comes as Elon Musk moves his business well beyond its original mission….
Gene editing and gene drives have the potential to be a massive scientific breakthrough, letting scientists target and eliminate diseases by modifying genes and disseminating them throughout a population. But it’s also a technique that’s not ready fo…
With astonishing speed, US Republicans are set to strike down laws or vote on new bills that eliminate environmental protections for the air, streams and national parks. The measures are being proposed so quickly that it has been difficult for enviro…
That hoped-for protest against President Trump’s anti-science policies? It’s on. The newly-named March for Science is now slated to take place on April 22nd — appropriately, Earth Day — in both Washington, DC and satellite protests worldwide. The d…
When Nintendo announced that the Switch would have a more robust online multiplayer network than previous consoles, fans were split. The new console’s online service promised voice chat and online multiplayer, but like Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation…
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