With Trump, Gingrich and GOP calling the shots, NASA may go back to the moon and other top stories.

• With Trump, Gingrich and GOP calling the shots, NASA may go back to the moon

  

  This July 20, 1969 photo shows astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. walking on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module. AFP PHOTO / NASA/Getty Images NASA has struggled for decades with strategic uncertainty, and there's nothing like a partisan transition in the White House to discombobulate everyone. There will surely be a new administrator, and new ambitions, and disfavored programs, with associated budget cuts (Earth Science is a likely target). Right this minute, though, no one..

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• Yes, Apple is limiting some iPhone 7 download speeds. But you probably won't notice.

  

  A mini firestorm erupted today over a report that Apple was purposely limiting the performance of the modem chip in the iPhone 7. Bloomberg reported that Apple was intentionally throttling the performance of the Qualcomm modem chip inside some versions of the iPhone 7, in order to make it more similar to the Intel chip it was using in some other versions of the phone. That’s true, at least according to sources I talked to. Apple supposedly did this for a simple reason: It wanted the cost savin..

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• Fixation on Fake News Overshadows Waning Trust in Real Reporting

  

  During the months I spent talking to partisan Facebook page operators for a magazine article this year, it became clear that while the ecosystem contained easily identifiable and intentional fabrication, it contained much, much more of something else. I recall a conversation with a fact checker about how to describe a story, posted on a pro-Trump website and promoted on a pro-Trump Facebook page — and, incidentally, copied from another pro-Trump site by overseas contractors. It tried to cast su..

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• You Can Use Samsung Pay On The Gear S3 With Any Other Android Phone

  

  Samsung's been known to load exclusive features onto its products in an attempt to beef up their selling point in contrast with direct rivals in the market, and because these exclusive services often fail to win consumers, they end up being ejected by the company after a brief shelf life. In order to veer away from this trajectory, Samsung has confirmed that Samsung Pay won't suffer the same gatekeeping, with the service slated to be available on any Android phone. Samsung Pay On Gear S3 Samsun..

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• How Trump Climate Denial Is Catalyzing the World: Q&A

  

  Donald Trump says that the overwhelming majority of scientists could be wrong in warning about cataclysmic impacts of global warming. That puts him -- and, as of his inauguration on Jan. 20, the U.S. -- at odds with much of the world. During two weeks of meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, which wrapped up early Saturday, top officials from almost 200 countries responded to Trump by reinforcing their December Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and warned that the president-elect could ..

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