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SpaceX and NASA have made history once again, successfully completing the crucial final phase of their Demo-2 mission for the Crew Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX’s first spacecraft made for human flight. This marks the end of

Image: ZDNet According to data collected by Google’s Project Zero security team, there have been 11 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in the first half of the year. The current number puts 2020 on track

Apple set a record in the June quarter just gone, buoyed by strong iPad and Mac sales and a wave of iPhone SE upgrades. You can read all about the company’s fiscal details here, and officials shared some points that

As TikTok’s existential rollercoaster ride continues to rattle on, the company is trying to sway regulators and the public with a flood of dollars and arguments wrapped in free enterprise and free speech to ensure that

Tiernan Ray for ZDNet. People have myths because that is one kind of response to the unknown. If you take away their myths, you may leave them with nothing.  That’s why a very well-intentioned, thoughtful effort of

This week I ran into an interesting product that could substantially speed up writers who do a lot of repetitive work. It’s called ActiveWords, and it’s now in its fourth generation. It works by allowing you

Rocket Lab has received clearance to launch from the FAA following the failure of its Electron rocket on July 4 and the loss of the half-dozen satellites on board. CEO Peter Beck said that it was a “This was a very, very

Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire chip designer Arm from Softbank, according to reports — a move that would be sure to draw regulatory scrutiny. According to the Financial Times and Bloomberg, the potential deal

The folks at Microsoft have pretty much exterminated the bugs they introduced in July’s patches. The Outlook-killing bug got fixed by an emergency update to Microsoft’s own servers. The Win7 .NET patch was fixed and

ViacomCBS has announced a significant expansion to its streaming library, with the addition of more than 3,500 episodes of shows like “Avatar: The Last Avatar,” “Chapelle’s Show” and “Laguna Beach.” Viacom and

Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/CNET We’ve been waiting for Google to finally announce the Pixel 4A, a successor to last year’s budget-friendly Pixel 3A. First, we expected it to launch in May, during Google I/O.

Mozilla this week upgraded Firefox to version 79, patching 10 vulnerabilities without making any notable changes that users will see. Of the 10 security bugs, Mozilla marked four as “High,” the browser’s

In one of the first substantive moments at Wednesday’s major tech hearing, Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram came under fire, unearthing a few new revelations about the company’s internal thinking at the time. Alluding

For years, Microsoft has made the browsers that choosy web users loved to hate. First there was Internet Explorer, with an endless supply of security and compatibility issues. Then there was the original version of Microsoft

Business is getting Biblical. A plague precedes an exodus. The coronavirus crisis, with its sheltering in place, social distancing and remote work is motivating urban workers to move to more rural areas. Some people are