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It’s rare to get airline points outside of credit card plans, tedious consumer surveys, or, you know, booking flights and flying. So a new offer from Southwest Airlines and car-sharing app Turo feels like the ultimate cheat. Starting this week, if you either book a car through the car-sharing platform …

Xiaomi today took the wraps off the Mi A3 Android One smartphone at an event held in Spain. Unsurprisingly, the Mi A3 is just a rebranded version of the Mi CC9e launched in China earlier this month. While it is an upgrade over last year’s Mi A2 in most areas, …

It’s World Emoji day, which can only mean one thing: The unveiling of a number of new emojis based on Unicode 12.0 that are coming to Android and iOS devices in the next year. In the spirit of the holiday, both Apple and Google have offered a sneak preview of …

Microsoft on Tuesday began upgrading Windows 10 PCs running the 14-month old 1803 with the latest refresh, the May 2019 Update, aka 1903. “We are initiating the Windows 10 May 2019 Update for customers with devices that are at or nearing end of service and have not yet updated their …

Modern Times Group (MTG) has invested $11 million in seven game and esports startups in the first half of 2019, making it one of the most prolific game company investors in the world. To date, Stockholm, Sweden-based MTG has invested more than $21 million from its venture capital fund into …

The aerial video of a bear and her cub struggling to climb a near-vertical snowy mountain was both gut-wrenching and inspirational. The clip, which went viral in November, shows the cub sliding down, again and again, as its mom looked on helpless. But, in the end the dogged furball made it, and …

What technologies do we take for granted today that were first developed for lunar missions? How do people feel about climbing aboard hypothetical spaceships piloted by robots? This Saturday, July 20, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing, and to commemorate the milestone, the brainy folks at IEEE, …

It’ll truly be the end of an era when Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive walks out of the massive sliding glass doors of Apple Park to design things at his new company, LoveFrom. Ive and his team of close-knit industrial designers have blessed the world with many iconic products, …

If you are expecting the U.S. variants of the upcoming Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ to be powered by Qualcomm’s all-new Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset, you may end up disappointed. A new report by WinFuture claims the Galaxy Note 10 models that will be sold in the U.S. will …

Pilot fish is document control analyst for a massive update and redesign of several dozen systems. Early in the multi-year process he is sent guidelines for naming the documents so that they can be easily identified within a matrix of system development steps. But it’s months later when the documents …