Category: Science and Technology

A leaked promotional video from the Pixel 3 has shown off the phone’s ability to quickly scan an email address from a business card without even having to take a photograph. The video, posted by MySmartPrice, also appears to confirm the return of Active Edge functionality and gesture controls.

This business card scanning functionality is already available as part of Google Lens, where itqs able to create a new contact based on the information on a photograph of a business card. The difference here is that the Pixel 3 appears to be able to scan details using the native camera app without needing to take a photo first and then open your email app directly.

At this point, the sheer quantity of Pixel 3 leaks means that it’s almost harder…

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I really thought I was going to miss the cube.

With the impending launch of season six of Fortnite, I found myself getting a little bit anxious that one of my favorite parts of the game was going away. Tracking the progress of the mysterious purple cube had become a near-obsession for me, one that really highlighted the best parts of Fortnite’s ever-changing world, and how weird and unexpected it can be. But as the sixth season was set to start, the cube sat quietly at the bottom of Loot Lake.

On one hand, I was right to be worried, since the cube is now a motionless part of the scenery. But it turns out I don’t really miss it at all: there’s so much new in the game I don’t have time.

Fortnite is, at its core, a game where 100 players…

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J.J. Abrams will love the lens flare captured by JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 mission.

Security researchers found a problem with Apple products handed out by work and school organizations.

Spoilers ahead for previous seasons of The Man in the High Castle.

Science fiction often challenges social and political issues that might be hard to tackle in different genres, so it’s ironic that the closer Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle gets to traditional science fiction, the less relevant to current reality it becomes. Season 3 devotes significantly more time to exploring the series’ multiverse, where some people can travel between different worlds that are mostly defined by which faction won World War II. But a closer look at the mechanics of the plot shows how shoddily it’s built, which detracts from the far more compelling character stories.

Set in a world in which the Axis won World War II and has divided North America…

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Ford already receives an overwhelming majority of its metal from the US.

The beta test for Bethesda’s next open-world game hits Xbox One on October 23, PS4 and PC on Oct. 30.

Bumble and Match Group aren’t going to be friendly any time soon. Today, Bumble responded to Match Group’s lawsuit from earlier this year that claimed the dating app stole a trade secret from Tinder and ripped off two of its patents. Bumble says in a filing today that these claims are invalid and should be dismissed. The motion comes amid a long, contentious relationship between the companies, including an open letter ad in The New York Times published earlier this year in which Bumble called Match Group a “bully” and an aggressive countersuit.

Bumble filed its $400 million countersuit against Match earlier this year alleging that the dating app conglomerate acted interested in purchasing Bumble to acquire trade secrets and that it…

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By working collectively, an unlikely group in Southern California is defying the FCC and by building powerful (and affordable) internet infrastructure.

An research group has discovered new technology to remove space debris using a single propulsion system in a helicon plasma thruster.