"To have the privilege of giving a Hawaiian name to the very first scientific confirmation of a black hole is very meaningful to me and my Hawaiian lineage that comes from po," Kimura said in a news release.
A Hawaiian name was justified because the project included two Hawaii telescopes, astronomers said.
Yes, and your Alexa isn't the only one. Employees from around the globe might also be listening to you singing in the shower and asking what the weather will be like tomorrow.
That DNA change can be passed on to you through your family; so, in other words, you may suffer from poor health because your grandfather grew up poor.
"The company is not flashy and doesn't try to generate a lot of buzz or press for every little thing it does," said Kamran Ansari, former head of corporate development at Pinterest. "It doesn't get some of the notoriety, but I think the term that comes to mind is: built to last." Pinterest's goal, he added, was "building a meaningful business that's going to be sustainable."
The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. But even by python standards, this one was colossal. Scientists caught a female python in the Florida Everglades that was more than 17 feet long, weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs.
Nearly 200 million miles away, on an asteroid, the size of a few city blocks, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says it successfully dropped a small bomb Friday morning in the hopes to
Burger King has a plan to bring in new customers and encourage existing ones to buy more often: Vegetarian Whoppers. The burger chain announced on Monday that it is testing out Impossible Whoppers, made with plant-based patties from Impossible Foods, in 59 locations in and around St. Louis. If all goes well, Burger King will roll out the Impossible Whopper nationally.
5G has the potential to disrupt a huge number of industries, including one of the world's oldest: Farming. Drones, driverless tractors, and connected cows, next-generation 5G networks is set to help farmers become more productive and keep their cows and crops happy all due to the blisteringly fast 5G network that can be 100 times faster than 4G, making communication between devices and servers much quicker.
Billions of robocalls are vexing Americans — and it's not slowing down. Many of the unsolicited calls are from scammers pretending to be tax collectors, charities, or salespeople. Short of throwing your phone in the garbage, there's no way to avoid them altogether. But wireless providers and smartphone developers offer tools to filter out at least some unwanted calls.
Facebook was charged for allegedly allowing landlords and real estate brokers to systematically exclude groups from seeing ads for houses and apartments.
A pioneering use of drones to fly blood samples across a North Carolina hospital campus launched Tuesday in the latest move to expand their roles in business and health care.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history as the first crew to have an all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station, but it was announced on Monday that the historic spacewalk will be delayed because of spacesuit issues.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday that the tech company's new credit card would be "the most significant change in the credit card experience in 50 years." But not everyone's buying it.
Apple is making movies, TV shows and ... a credit card. CEO Tim Cook and a roster of big-name celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, announced the company's much-anticipated entrance into the crowded video-streaming market at a press event Monday afternoon inside the underground Steve Jobs theater at its Cupertino, California, headquarters.
NASA is expected to announce this week whether it will sideline its long-overdue rocket, Space Launch System, and instead use commercial launch vehicles. The space agency contracted Boeing in 2012 to build SLS's core components this is called into question due to the rocket facing new hangups that threatened to upend plans to launch its Orion spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight around the Moon in mid-2020.
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