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And that was the end of SpaceX' Falcon 9 and Spacecom's Amos-6 communications satellite. USLaunchReport video/Screenshot by CNET An explosion that destroyed a SpaceX rocket carrying an Israeli satellite last week is being felt well beyond Cape Canaveral, Florida.Israel-based Space Communication told reporters Sunday that it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX to cover the cost of its now destroyed Amos-6 advanced communications satellite, according to Reuters. The explosion occurred on Thursday moing during a routine firing of SpaceX' Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral.During the conference...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.An intact Falcon 9. NASA/Getty Images It was just a routine rocket test.However, as the Space X Falcon 9 rocket stood on the launch pad with its Amos-6 satellite, there was an explosion.Video has now emerged of what that explosion looked like.Posted by nonprofit US Launch Report, the video shows a blast of considerable magnitude. A fire started immediately and the top part of the rocket fell to the ground.Then the fire continued the rage, as so many hopes were temporarily bued. As the video of the fire continues, small...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. The email was a shock. "Unfortunately, my application for residence permit has been rejected," wrote Safinaz Awad, a Syrian computer programmer who until that moment in early August represented a success story for asylum seekers in Sweden.Jonathan Persson of Stockholm startup Bigspin stands with employee Safinaz Awad. Sweden has deferred Awad's asylum application to Greece. Laura Hautala/CNET After traveling from Syria to Greece to Stockholm last year, Awad, who is...

It's even bigger than it looks. Standing in front of it, my head tilted back -- it's huge. It's sci-fi come to life: an 18-meter/59-foot tall Mobile Suit from the anime series "Gundam." Built initially to celebrate the series' 30th aiversary, the enormous statue has traveled around a bit. It now stands guard in front of the DiverCity mall on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It doesn't walk around (sadly), nor can you climb up into it (bummer), but for fans of the anime, or anyone who just digs giant robots, it's pretty cool. Here's how it looks up close. Fundam with Tokyo's giant Gundam ...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA threat to society? Niantic Labs We are gathered here today to discuss whether Pokemon Go is the work of the devil.The game that has captivated so many minds has disturbed some.Take Antonio Stagliano. The bishop of Noto in Sicily apparently isn't a fan. As Agence France-Presse reports, he's described the game as "diabolical." It seems he fears that the vast minds at Niantic Labs who created this summer phenomenon might be in the serpent's clutches.The bishop has very definite ideas about what the game ha...

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A hacker got away with roughly $72 million worth of bitcoin. Getty The hits continue for bitcoin owners.After Bitfinex revealed this week that a hacker made off with 119,756 bitcoin (about $72 million), the digital-currency exchange said Friday it is interested in a "socialized loss.""We are leaning towards a socialized loss scenario among bitcoin balances and active loans to BTCUSD positions," the company said in a blog post, noting that it has not made a final decision and that more details will be available Saturday. BTCUSD stands for Bitcoin/US dollar.In a socialized loss scenario, a company typically exp...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla posts $150 million Q2 loss, may miss 2016 delivery targetsTesla has posted Q2 2016 eaings and, while the word isn't resoundingly terrible, there's more bad news to be found than good. We'll start with the good, Tesla posting $1.56 billion in non-GAAP revenue for Q2. That's up from $1.2 billion in the same period last year. Total vehicle deliveries of 14,402 (9,764 Model S, 4,638 Model X) is also a big bump from this period last year, when Tesla shipped 11,507 vehicles. Tesla also says that average price of the Model S is up three percent. That's the good, here's the bad: Tesla posted a $150 million non-GAAP loss, which amounts to $1.06 per share. That's about do...

Musician Jack White's label Three Man Records recently launched a small craft into near-space with a special payload: a spiing vinyl album playing a remix of Carl Sagan's "A Glorious Dawn."We're also discussing Ripchair 3.0, a massive, tank-like machine that allows a disabled person to load in their wheelchair and head outdoors through rugged terrain and difficult weather conditions. Close ...

Last year, the fourth Inteational reached a prize pool of $18 million, the largest in e-sports history at the time. In 2016, the touament for the battle arena game Dota 2 is looking to set another precedent, offering viewers around the world the option to tune in via VR, developer Valve aounced in a blog post.You'll be able to watch the world's best Dota 2 players on the Dota VR Hub, using compatible headsets to watch live matches and replays in VR. You'll have the option of watching as if you were in the crowd at the event, or, better yet, you can even watch from within the game itself."Put on a headset and join your friends and other Dota fans to watch live matches or replays in Dota VR Th...

Enlarge Image Ly La/CNET Pokemon Go is a bona fide hit, but Nintendo is still in the red. The Kyoto-based company on Wednesday released an eaings report for the first quarter of the financial year, revealing a net loss of 24.5 billion yen -- roughly $234 million.Only 220,000 Wii Us were sold during the last three months, and Nintendo also attributed some of the loss with having to contend with exchange rate problems. It said that "foreign exchange rates [were] impacted by significant yen appreciation", which hurts the company's bottom line due to 72 percent of its sales being overseas. Nintendo has been in th...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot iovative anymore? Harry How, Getty Images What is it Heidi Klum always says on "Project Runway"? "One day you're in, and the next day you're out." This seems to be true of technology as it is of skiy jeans. I offer this mouful thought on viewing a new survey released Monday by brand loyalty and emotional engagement research consultancy Brand Keys. In the first two weeks of July, it asked 4,000 adult consumers which tech companies spontaneously came to mind as iovative. What fascination emerged f...

Got Pokefever? Who could blame you. The two-week old game, which launched July 6, has inspired love, exercise, exteal battery packs and, unfortunately, has led to real-world harm. Now it looks like it's inspiring the revival of physical Pokemon trading cards. Die-hards can kick it old school with the ultimate bragging right, a 1998 mint-condition Pikachu trading card from Nintendo's original Pokemon video game that sells on eBay for a cool $100,000.Its seller, smpratte, declares it "the most valuable card in the hobby!" Daily eBay sales of Pokemon trading cards have nearly doubled according to Heritage Auctions, an auction house website tracking the trend.The ludicrously popular Pokemon Go g...

RoadshowNewsPerformance CarsA closer look at the Bugatti Chiron's designThere are some who found Bugatti's Veyron a little "function over form." They thought it was a bit ugly, but what's there was designed to serve a purpose. This time round, Bugatti wants people to think of its star car as a looker as well as a speed demon. Spend some time with the design team and you'll see why.It wasn't originally supposed to look like it doesThe "eight eyes" look, as it's known inteally, wasn't the original design. It was initially a more open affair. Literally. Its front splayed out and it looked like a stylized Predator. That was the work of Sasha Selipanov, who had been invited to submit a design stu...

There is a new GPU king. Just weeks after the global rollout of its GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards, US chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled another product in its already breakneck 2015-2016 release cycle. Called the Titan X, it looks to be the most powerful graphics card that Nvidia has ever made. As the name suggests, the card is the new model in Nvidia's top-end Titan series. The Titan X, which sells for an eye-watering $1,200 (that converts roughly to AU$1,600 or £1,200), is based on Nvidia's Pascal architecture, boasts 12GB of GDDR5X memory and will have 3,584 of Nvidia's specialist "CUDA" cores. The GTX 1080, by comparison, has 8GB of memory and 2,560 CUDA cores. The new Titan X will ...

Haven't used Apple Pay yet? Try it at your local Apple Store, and you'll get $5 or £5 in credit. Apple Sign up for Apple Pay at an Apple Store, and you'll get a $5 or £5 gift card for your effort.The promotion, which started this week, works as follows, according to blog site MacRumors:Buy something at an Apple Store, and an employee will ask if you wish to use Apple Pay. If you haven't yet tried the mobile payment service, the employee will volunteer to take you through the process. If you agree to use Apple Pay to buy the item in hand, your reward will be a $5 or £5 iTunes gift card.The value on the gift ca...