For Hottest Planet, a Major Meltdown, Study Shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. Massive gas giants called “hot

An ancient, dying galaxy could help astronomers learn more about the Milky Way The most distant dying galaxy known to astronomers contains nearly one trillion stars, making this family of stars is significantly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. Analysis of the core of this galaxy shows this object started to form 12 billion years ago — just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Like humans, galaxies are born, live out their lives, and fall into silence. The first galaxies formed just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, as the gravitational pull of both normal matter and dark matter pulled stars together into groups. Now, by studying dying galaxies, astronomers… This story continues at The Next Web

NASA’s Kepler Witnesses Vampire Star System Undergoing Super-Outburst NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses

Add a second screen to your smartphone with the Castaway case    castAway is a new case designed to add an extra screen to your smartphone allowing you to benefit from a wide variety of new features. The castAway case allows you to open multiple apps at once, copy/paste, and access files and photos from either screen. “A second monitor used to be a luxury, and […] (Read More ...) The post Add a second screen to your smartphone with the Castaway case appeared first on Geeky Gadgets.

Use Chrome’s picture-in-picture mode to watch videos while browsing other tabs Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We all know the struggle. You’re watching a show, or a video, but you also really want to get work done or do some browsing, so you flip to other Chrome tabs. You’ll be able to hear your video, but not see it. It’s a compromise we’ve all made from time to time — but you don’t have to make it. Chrome actually has a built-in (albeit somewhat hard-to-find) picture-in-picture mode that lets you watch… This story continues at The Next Web

Pentagon Says 34 Troops Treated for Traumatic Brain Injury After Trump Downplays It as 'Headaches' The White House initially minimized the consequences of retaliatory Iranian missile strikes that hit joint U.S.-Iraqi bases in Iraq on January 8 in response to Donald Trump’s reckless decision to assassinate a senior Iranian official. But last week, news broke that at least 11 U.S. troops had actually been treated…Read more...

YouTube’s Content Moderators Are Asked to Contractually Acknowledge the Job Can Give Them PTSD The contractors charged with keeping YouTube clean from the vilest forms of content that surface on the platform are reportedly being coerced to sign agreements acknowledging that the job could have a severe impact on their mental health, seemingly making any job-related fallout the responsibility of those workers…Read more...

Clayton Christensen, Father of 'Disruptive Innovation,' Dies at 67 Unless you’re an avid reader of the sort of books CEOs tote around, you may not have heard of Clayton Christensen. You have, however, felt the impact of his work. Christensen, who died at 67 on Thursday due to complications from cancer treatment, is the scholar responsible for coining the term ‘disruptive innovation.’…Read more...

Google backtracks on search results design Earlier today, Google announced that it would be redesigning the redesign of its search results as a response to withering criticism from politicians, consumers, and the press over the way in which search results display were made to look like ads. Google makes money when users of its search service click on ads. It doesn’t […]

Watch this Sonic movie-themed Wiz Khalifa music video you didn’t know you needed I know next to nothing about Wiz Khalifa, but what I really didn’t know was how much I needed this music video for ‘Speed me up,’ a music video made for with the imminent Sonic the Hedgehog movie. In it, Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign, Sueco the Child, and Lil Yachty team up for a surprisingly chill groove full of enough Genesis references to put a smile on this Sonic fan’s face. There’s an opening groove to the beat of Metropolis Zone, a plethora of ring jingles, jaunts through Sonic’s Special Stages, and plenty of 16-bit pixel art to go around. It’s… This story continues at The Next Web

Dolly Parton's Meme Exposes Social Media's Masquerade The country star's “LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder” post speaks to people's desire to be what any platform needs them to be.

Ring Got Reporters to Omit Its Ukraine Staff Is Working on 'Many Other Amazon Projects' Amazon’s home security company, Ring, pressed the chief editor at a Ukrainian business publication last year to delete a passage in an article touting the successes of Ring’s Kyiv-based research lab, the Intercept reported Friday. The article reportedly included a quote attributed to the general manager of Ring…Read more...

U.S.-China trade deal clears way for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X The trade deal between the United States and China came before Trump could put major tariffs on video game consoles. This should keep hardware prices down.

10+ essential iPad apps for professionals Apple's iPad has come into its own as a work machine, and these apps can help make it easier for business professionals and developers to be productive, multitask, and more.

Google is testing how to make ads sneakier in search results Last year, Google introduced a small but meaningful change to the way it presented search results on mobile – it started to display favicons. This would,  in theory, make it easier to visually distinguish trusted sites from shady ones and ads. But when the company started to implement a similar change on its desktop site this year, people were not happy. Now it appears the company is having second thoughts. Where ads used to be highlighted in green at the top of search results, the change made it so they were only differentiated by a little “Ad” icon. It’s easy… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Google