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Google's mobile search makes it easier to find events and buy tickets.

Skywatchers are in for a wonderful treat on May 10, Wednesday, from the May full moon, also known as the Flower Moon. The nighttime spectacle happens at 5:42 p.m. Eastern time, where the moon appears in the constellation Libra and shows off its moment of fullness afterwards. While everyone in the Northern Hemisphere won’t be able to see the moon in this full display, those in the East Coast will still see it full in the sky, with about 8 p.m.

Ericsson has launched its "dynamic orchestration" solution, which the networking giant said will allow mobile telecommunications carriers to migrate to 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) applications by virtualising their networks.Ericsson's self-professed "ambition to lead IT

The grand finale of NASA Cassini spacecraft has set one more milestone after the successful second dive on May 2 between the Saturn and its rings. With its camera — equipped with CL1 and CL2 filter — pointed at its rings and away from the planet's surface, Cassini offered amazing images with an eerie touch. The second dive also gave Cassini a broader proximity to the planet's outer atmosphere and came within 1,820 miles radius. Cassini's distance from the inner edge of Saturn's

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Chaos ensued Monday night, May 8, at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida, as Spirit Airlines canceled multiple flights, leaving hundreds of travelers stranded in Broward County. Irritation escaladed to the point where it gave rise to altercations between angry passengers and staff members. The latter had no choice but to call the police, which intervened to calm the violent brawl and eventually made three arrests. Riot Charges For The Arrested Passengers A few tense customers quickly turned into a crowd of about 500 "enraged, fearful,

Nike's VP of digital design transformation, Ken Black, has put his company's competitors on notice, revealing the sneaker giant is aggressively pursuing any environment in which it can innovate."We have the best athletes, best designers, best

Scientists from the UNSW in Sydney found ancient rocks in a desolate stretch in Western Australia, which could potentially aid researchers in their search for life on the Red Planet. These ancient Australian rocks — part of the Dresser Formation in Pilbara Craton — could contain possible clues to the oldest known existence of microbial life on land. The UNSW researchers discovered the fossils — believed to be 3.48 billion years old — in Pilbara Craton as part of a hot spring deposit. The

Driverless vehicles will likely be too cautious around humans, giving them the right of way in every circumstance, possibly creating new traffic problems.

The latest version of Opera is called "Reborn" and it aims to rethink the browser, adding a special new sidebar for messaging. The new sidebar has baked-in shortcuts for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, allowing users to handle messages quickly and easily without having to open a separate tab or leave their current tab. The messaging sidebar is built right into the browser interface and once users log in to their accounts, messaging becomes far more accessible. The feature initially debuted in

IBM on Wednesday is announcing significant updates to PowerAI, its deep learning software distribution package, making it faster for data scientists to deploy deep learning models and easier for developers to integrate computer vision into their

The Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman Kardon Invoke has its benefits, but Amazon's Echo lineup might be too big to topple. Redmond has no one to blame but itself.

CERN is stepping up the game in the field of nuclear research. The European physics research center inaugurated its newest particle accelerator, Linac 4, during a May 9 ceremony in the Swiss city of Geneva. This latest acquisition marks the first step of an extensive hardware upgrade, which aims to gather even more data from the Large Hadron Collider or LHC — CERN's 17-mile-long circular accelerator, which scientists use to smash protons together at high speeds, comparable to the speed of light,

Flock's Bhavin Turakhia: "Good software should follow the principle of, 'don't make the user think'."

A new report indicates that life expectancy in the United States varies by as high as 20 years depending on one's county of birth. Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at Washington University undertook the study and revealed the existing disparity in life expectancy from county to county. Life Expectancy Disparity The lead author of the study Christopher Murray and team examined death records of people aged between 25 years to 45 years from 1980 to 2014 for all U.S.

Adobe has patched a number of vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms in the company's latest round of patch updates.According to the tech giant's

Koreans spent the most time using apps on their smartphones, a survey showed.App Annie, an app usage research firm, showed that Koreans spent the most time -- 200 minutes per day on average -- using mobile

According to a new U.S.-based study, overall environmental pollution — water, air, and land — can greatly increase the risk of Americans developing cancer. The study asserts that poor air quality — coupled with other man-made factors that impact the environment, such as construction of major roads and highways, housing, and public transport — are responsible for elevating cancer risk in both men and women. On the other hand, land and water pollution's effect on cancer risk had "no measurable effect." Researchers

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) has announced a live trial of drone technology to be used for disaster management, utilising Telstra's 4G network and a combination of three drone operators and four software platforms

The Nintendo Switch version of Minecraft is set to be released on May 11, expanding the number of platforms where the popular block building game is playable. Minecraft's launch to the Nintendo Switch is largely expected to draw the same success as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Both games were released for the Nintendo Wii U, which was considered a failure especially compared to its predecessor, the Nintendo Wii. 'Minecraft' For Nintendo Switch: Better Than The Nintendo Wii U Version Minecraft for the Nintendo Switch does

Ticketek sells over 23 million tickets to more than 20,000 events each year, including concerts, sports, theatre, musicals, festivals, and exhibitions at iconic Australian venues such as ANZ Stadium, Qudos Bank Arena, and the Sydney Cricket

Expired EpiPens may still be usable more than four years after their expiry date. Findings of a new study that looked at the potency of auto-injectors after their expiry date suggest it may be worth using one that is past the expiration if it is all you have got. The new study shows that long after their supposed expiration dates, the injectors still have the concentration of epinephrine potent enough to prevent potentially deadly allergic reactions. Epinephrine Epinephrine, more commonly known as adrenaline, is

Microsoft is continuing to tweak its Windows as a Service updating and patching strategy.Company officials announced some of the latest adjustments during last week's Ask Me Anything (AMA) about Windows as a Service on the Microsoft

Apple on Tuesday invited members of the press to attend the opening keynote for its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 5. The keynote is scheduled to start at 1 pm ET/10 am PT

Facebook is under fire again over the way it handles fake news, as an Austrian court just ruled the company must remove all posts considered to be hate speech. The ruling doesn't refer to just local posts either — the Austrian court ordered Facebook to remove hateful content globally, which makes the ruling significant even beyond the country's borders. Austria Takes Steps Against Facebook Hate Speech Austria's Green party, which filed the case against Facebook over insulting posts about one of its leaders, shared the news

With Cathy Beaudoin's departure, Amazon Fashion should embrace the fact that it doesn't have front-row status.

Minnesota is currently dealing with the worst measles outbreak the state has seen in the past three decades. According to the state health department, there have been 44 confirmed cases since the outbreak was first identified in April. This is particularly worrisome given the high transmission rate of the virus — one person with measles can infect between 12 and up to 18 other people in the unimmunized population. The vast majority of cases were reported among the Somali-American community in Hennepin County, which

A ransomware attack against any business could be potentially devastating, but there are some sectors which are more at risk from file-encrypting attacks than others, as cybercriminals prey on industries which can't afford to not have

It's now easier to download pages from the web in Chrome for Android.

Nintendo, which crashed into a struggling situation after it released the failed Nintendo Wii U in 2012, may finally be back in the game. After the success of the Nintendo Wii, the company has long languished behind Sony and Microsoft as they grew their PlayStation and Xbox businesses. However, with the early success of the Nintendo Switch and the mostly positive reviews for the upcoming New Nintendo 2DS XL, Nintendo is finally pulling itself back into relevance in the lucrative video

Google's OSS-Fuzz bug-hunting robot has been hard at work, and in recent months, over 1,000 bugs have been exposed. According to Chrome Security engineers Oliver Chang and Abhishek Arya, software engineer Kostya Serebryany

The highly anticipated Xbox Project Scorpio is set to be released in the holiday season, and Head of Xbox Phil Spencer claimed that Microsoft is still on track to meet that target. The Xbox Project Scorpio, which is described as "the world's most powerful console," will be the highlight of Microsoft's presentation and booth at the upcoming E3. Xbox Project Scorpio On Track For Holiday Season Release In a tech industry where product delays do not come as a surprise, Microsoft is apparently

Today's State of Work: At the Breaking PointServiceNow is rolling out a machine learning engine that's designed to predict outages, automate routing and workflow, predict outcomes, and benchmark performance.The engine, called the Intelligent Automation Engine, was