At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn’t given up hope of fixing it yet

CERN In 1989, the internet was already years old, but it looked nothing like it does today. The internet we use today owes much of its look and feel to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’ and his creation, the World Wide Web. The web’s launch can be traced back 35 years to Berners-Lee’s paper, Information Management: A … Read more

Get Presale Tickets to Jelly Roll’s The Beautifully Broken 2024 Tour

Starting August 27, Jelly Roll is embarking on the Beautifully Broken Tour 2024, an arena run that will be the Nashville native’s biggest headlining tour to date — and SiriusXM listeners can access tickets in a special presale before they go on sale to the general public. Kicking off in Salt Lake City, UT, the … Read more

Broken moon lander beams back a final poignant photo — of Earth

A spacecraft on the moon is lying on its side. It snapped a leg while landing. And now it’s lost power. But before the freezing, two-week lunar night swept over Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander, the robotic craft beamed back one final transmission from space. It shows the cratered grey surface spreading to the lunar … Read more

Landing on the Moon Wasn’t Easy for Odysseus, Which Clearly Has a Broken Leg in New Photo

A new photo of Odysseus released by NASA illustrates just how rough the lander’s journey to the Moon has been, shining a light on its spunky resilience against all odds. Moon Knight Gives Us Hope Taken on February 22, the day the lander touched down on the Moon, the photo shows Odysseus, affectionately called “Odie,” … Read more

New Emoji in iOS 17.4 Beta Include a Phoenix, Broken Chain, Nodding Heads and a Lime

Want to text someone a colorful reminder that they should bring home some limes for gin and tonics? Or mushrooms for stroganoff? Or maybe to encourage them they can rise from the ashes, like a phoenix? Then this next batch of 118 emoji is for you. The new, colorful little icons are now available on … Read more

Canada could owe First Nations billions for broken treaty promise

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Patricia Tangie’s ancestors thought they had a deal. More than 170 years ago, before Canada confederated in 1867, Indigenous people in what’s now Northern Ontario signed treaties, ceding a vast territory north of Lake Superior and Lake Huron to the Crown in exchange for a promise: that … Read more

Trump rekindles his rage against John McCain, taunting over POW’s broken limbs

Former President Donald Trump returned to mocking the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, alluding to the former prisoner-of-war’s broken limbs to explain Republicans’ failure to pass health care legislation. Speaking to supporters Saturday in Newton, Iowa, Trump noted McCain’s 2018 vote that sank GOP efforts to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic law, known … Read more

Model Abigail Ratchford’s Home Broken Into By 3 Men While She Was Inside

Abigail Ratchford had a terrifying situation unfold this weekend — when cops say 3 goons broke into her freaking house … this while she was still INSIDE! Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the longtime Instagram model — who has over 9 million followers — was hanging out at her L.A.-area property Saturday evening when … Read more

The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections

Joseph Jerome, who left privacy advocacy to work on Meta’s augmented reality data policies for two years before being laid off in May, says he grew to appreciate how consent decrees force companies to work on privacy. They add “checks and balances,” he says. But without clear privacy protection rules from lawmakers that bind every … Read more

Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird

In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10 miles away, hiding in a bush—a run-and-dump tactic that he says thieves use to test whether anyone will come after them before they take a scooter home. John, not … Read more