It’s been a long time coming, but  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe  is finally just days away from its historic launch towards the star that hosts planet Earth, and every living thing mankind knows of. It’s sure to be a mission of many ‘firsts’ and scientists are hoping to learn more about the star than ever before. At the moment, the launch window is scheduled to open at exactly 3:33 a.m. EDT. The launch will take place from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, and you’ll be able to watch it all go down live. The mission will see the Parker Solar Probe get within roughly 3.9 million miles of the Sun. That sounds like a long ways away, but it’s actually incredibly close by Solar System standards. Consider how you feel on a clear summer day when the Sun is beaming down on you. That heat you feel as the light hits your skin is being generated over 90 million miles away. At less than four million miles, the temperatures are hot enough to melt steel. N...

The ephemeral social media company revealed in its latest earnings report that its daily active user count has dipped, attributing the decline to early frustrations with its new-look app. Snap reported 188 million daily active users during the last quarter — falling short of Wall Street’s expected 192 million and dropping from last quarter’s 191 million. The Los Angeles-based social network reported $262 million in revenue, beating the $250.4 million expected by analysts, and lost 14 cents per share. Wall Street had forecast a loss of 17 cents per share for the second quarter. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal announced soon after the results that he had finalized a $250 million deal in May to buy a 2.3 percent stake. Shares in Snap climbed more than 12 percent in after-hours trading before reversing course and going flat. Snapchat has been trying to please its users ever since its first redesign in November in an attempt to simplify and streamline the user experience. Features ...

We’ve heard of a handful of cases of the Apple Watch alerting its wearer to life-threatening health conditions in the past, and it seems we have yet another one to add to the list. When 24-year-old Mike Love received warnings from his wearable that his resting heart rate was well above average, he decided to let his doctor in Sydney, Australia, know. That’s when things got interesting. According to Love’s Apple Watch, his heart rate while sleeping was hitting as high as 140 beats per minute. The normal range is closer to 60 bpm, so doctors decided to run a battery of tests. They ended up finding a number of things, including a previously undiagnosed hole in Love’s heart, as well as a condition related to his lung. Love’s lung issue stemmed from his heart as well, with his lung circulating into the wrong atrium, leading the blood in the lung to be isolated from the rest of his circulatory system. The hole in his heart wasn’t immediately life-threatening and had likely been there since h...

Tesla said on Wednesday its board is evaluating Chief Executive Elon Musk’s idea of taking the company private after he brought the matter up for discussion last week. Musk took Tesla shareholders and the stock market by surprise on Tuesday by  announcing on Twitter  he was considering taking the loss-making electric carmaker private at $420 a share. In his first tweet he said funding was secured but provided no details. That would mark the biggest such transaction in history, worth more than $70 billion. In a statement on Tesla’s website on Wednesday, six of Tesla’s nine directors said the board had met several times over the last week to discuss the idea and was “taking the appropriate next steps to evaluate this.” They said the board also addressed the issue of how to fund such a deal, but gave no details. Tesla’s shares were down slightly, at $377.38, in morning trading on Wednesday after  closing up 11 percent , at $379.57, on Tuesday. In a letter to shareholders aft...

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their users, researchers told Reuters. The Galaxy S7 and other smartphones made by Samsung Electronics were previously thought to be immune to  a security vulnerability known as Meltdown , which researchers said affected most of the world’s PCs, smartphones and other computing devices. Researchers from Austria’s Graz Technical University said they have figured out a way to exploit the Meltdown vulnerability to attack Galaxy S7 handsets. The team plans to release their findings on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. They are looking into Meltdown’s impact on other makes and models of smartphones and expect to uncover more vulnerable devices in the near future, researcher Michael Schwarz said. “There are potentially even more phones affected that we don’t know about yet,” he said. “There are ...

The New Day beat The Bar in the SummerSlam Tag Team tournament finals in this week’s SmackDown. The two teams have fought some incredible battles over the years and so were familiar with each other’s moves. It was a match in which the momentum shifted between the two sides on numerous occasions. There were multiple pin-down attempts from both sides and in the end, it was The New Day that prevailed. The decisive moment came when Big E managed to lift up Cesaro despite being locked in a cross face and managed to get his opponent in position for the Midnight Hour allowing Kofi to drop the Swiss Cyborg. Another pin-down came and this time, the countdown was completed. The New Day now have a chance to face The Bludgeon Brothers for the SmackDown Tag Team Title. READ| Ronda Rousey routs Alicia Fox on Raw debut Before that, Shinsuke Nakamura warmed up for his United States Title defence against Jeff Hardy at the SummerSlam by beating R-Truth and Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch beat the Iiconi...