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- First LookApple makes a splash with gun emoji replacement. Will it make us safer?
Apple – without explaining the reason for the change – is replacing its gun emoji with a water pistol.
- Why Uber will invest $500 million to map the world
Uber plans to invest in its own precise mapping system as part of its effort to develop driverless cars.
- How did Luke Aikins survive a 25,000-foot-jump without a parachute?
Professional skydiver Luke Aikins set the word record on Saturday for highest jump without a parachute, a stunt he once laughed off as impossible.
- Tesla confirms plans for VW-style minibus, on heels of its master plan
On Saturday, July 30th Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that the new Tesla Minibus to be unveiled next year will be built atop the Model X chassis.
- Instagram empowers users to silence harassing commenters
In an effort to make Instagram harassment-free, the photo sharing app is giving users a lot more control over their comment section.
- Why is the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test so important?
Rocket reuse, not only recapture, is essential to the business model that Elon Musk has laid out for SpaceX and the future of commercial space travel.
- Apple shifts focus of Project Titan to autonomous car technology
The most new hire for the secretive project may suggest that Apple is switching the focus of its car team from electric cars to autonomous ones.
- Why is Microsoft getting out of the phone business?
On Thursday, the company said it would cut 2,850 jobs as it struggles with the fallout from its acquisition of phonemaker Nokia.
- Pokémon Go offers glimpse into 'augmented reality' future
By marrying AR with geolocation, it became the No. 1 mobile game in the US in one week. The technology behind Pokémon Go promises new business and public-safety applications, but risks, too.
- Will Amazon's Alexa make your home as responsive as a 'Star Trek' starship?
Amazon teamed up with August Home to allow users to lock their doors with a voice command.
- Tesla's $5-billion Gigafactory begins production
The gigafactory is open and Tesla Motors is nearly ready to begin production on the lithium-ion batteries that it hopes will power the next generation of electric cars.
- Powered by only the sun, historic global flight makes safe landing
Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emriates, today after completing its 16-stop tour without one drop of fuel.
- How the digital revolution gave a second life to an old timber town
Faced with the fallout from overlogging, Prinville, Ore., has new shoots of a rebounding economy. How the arrival of Silicon Valley data centers are filling the gaps in rural America.
- First LookPokémon Go downloads reach 75 million, smashing all records
Pokémon Go is the fastest-growing reality game ever, by a long shot.
- First LookWhy Amazon is taking its experimental delivery drones to Britain
The day when drones will used for commercial delivery draws nearer as Amazon starts testing in suburban and rural Britain.
- How MIT researchers created a 3D movie screen, no glasses required
The Cinema 3D technology improves on the resolution of existing glasses-less alternatives, though some attention has shifted to the promise of virtual reality.
- First LookSolar Impulse 2 embarks on final leg of around-the-world trip
The experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Cairo for Abu Dhabi Sunday morning on the final leg of its planet-circling journey.
- First LookPokémon Go players rediscovering their neighborhoods' histories
Many of the game's Pokéstops and Pokémon gyms are based on a volunteer-run website that tracks the coordinates of historical markers.
- Has Pokémon Go's heyday come and gone?
Though the game is still extremely popular, analysts say maintaining current levels of engagement will be a challenge in the coming months and years.
- What does Spotify's decision to share user data mean?
Spotify announced an innovative marketplace that will allow big ad tech companies to access data for 70 million of its users – but how might they feel about it?