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Who among the Navy’s best and brightest hasn’t at some point earlier in their enlisted career been forced to scrape rusting, dilapidated paint from the various corners of the service’s agei...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/10/lasers-could-replace-sailors-in-peeling-old-paint-off-ships/

Amazon employees who on Friday morning were told to delete TikTok from their phones received the directive by mistake, the company told The Post. The e-commerce juggernaut’s IT department had s...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/10/amazon-tells-employees-to-delete-tiktok-by-end-of-day/

A huge comet fizzing past Earth has been captured in dramatic footage recorded from the International Space Station. Posted to social media on Tuesday, the timelapse video shows the icy object Ne...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/iss-astronaut-captures-mind-blowing-video-of-comet-neowise-soaring-past-earth/

Epic Games, the creator of the popular video game “Fortnite,” said on Thursday it had received a $250 million investment from Japan’s Sony for a minority stake in the company.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/sony-invests-250-million-in-fortnite-creator-epic-games/

Apple’s biggest rival is following its lead in not including a power adapter with its upcoming phones. Samsung will no longer give customers a complimentary charging brick when they buy a new p...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/samsung-joins-apple-in-ditching-free-chargers-with-new-phones/

Quibi, the short-form video app founded by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has retained just 8 percent of customers who signed up for a 90-day free trial, according to a new research study. T...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/quibi-lost-92-percent-of-users-after-free-trial-report/

NASA has plans to send manned missions to Mars in the 2030s, but before astronauts get there, they should stop by Venus first. Those are the sentiments expressed in a new paper written by a numbe...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/scientists-want-nasa-to-swing-by-venus-before-heading-to-mars/

Scientists have identified a strange, gel-like substance that was discovered on the far side of the moon. The material was found last year during China’s Chang’e 4 mission to the moon. Citing...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/mysterious-substance-discovered-on-far-side-of-the-moon-has-been-identified/

SINGAPORE – Scientists in Singapore are hoping to perfect a new method of power generation driven largely by shadows, with the hope that it could one day help highly urbanized cities power them...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/singapore-scientists-seek-power-from-darkness-through-shadow-energy/

Americans have met an average of 10 new people online during their time in self-isolation, according to new research. The survey asked 2,000 Americans about their digital communication habits whi...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/were-all-video-call-experts-now/

An ad boycott against Facebook is threatening to get wider after a meeting over hate speech between Mark Zuckerberg and civil-rights groups fizzled. The social network’s 36-year-old chief execu...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/activists-vow-to-widen-facebook-ad-boycott-after-zuckerberg-meeting/

HONG KONG – A Hong Kong museum chronicling the crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square is raising funds to digitalize its collection as concerns over a new n...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/hong-kong-tiananmen-museum-turns-to-digitalization-after-new-law/

The US will have to beef up its investment in chipmakers if it hopes to compete against China in the fast-growing business of high-speed 5G wireless networks, according to a Japanese technology c...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/07/us-needs-to-invest-in-chipmakers-to-compete-in-5g-report/

Galaxies always seem special simply due to their huge size and collections of stars, planets, and typically a black hole or sometimes more. They’re definitely interesting, but some are clearly ...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/hubble-just-snapped-one-of-its-greatest-images-ever/

The news about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact in the US has been pretty depressing this week, no two ways about it and seems to be setting the country up for a tough July. On Wednesday, for ...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/anti-science-content-is-thriving-on-facebook-right-now/

CHICAGO — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspira...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/facebook-groups-pivot-to-attacks-on-black-lives-matter/

A massive star in a distant galaxy has baffled astronomers by disappearing without a trace. Scientists have been observing the star for decades as it was in the late stages of its lifespan meanin...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/distant-star-vanishes-without-a-trace-and-panicked-scientists-dont-know-where-it-went/

NAIROBI, – Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism – as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists in a Nairobi lab are experimen...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/how-to-rid-east-africa-of-locusts-serve-them-in-a-kebab-or-drive-them-to-cannibalism/

The social network introduced the app — which allows users to make short form video clips similar to TikToks — back in November of 2018.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/facebook-is-killing-lasso-its-tiktok-copycat-app/

Over half of Americans think video games should be considered a part of the Olympics, according to new research. The survey looked at 2,000 Americans’ opinions on video games and asked them to ...

https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/large-number-of-americans-think-esports-will-one-day-surpass-sports-in-society/