No funny stories about Florida today, but there is a really good one about a guy from Arizona. Lots of news from space including some awesome sounds and photos. Edge is dead, is Firefox next? HAL 9000 comes to life. The Leaning Tower of Pisa straightens up. Then there is cockroach milk! All of this and more is listed below. Click on the headlines of interest to read the full story.

• Some good came out of 2018: Astronomy photos
• For the fourth month in a row, Microsoft patches Windows zero-day used in the wild
• YouTube quietly added free, ad-supported movies to its site
• These Are the Most Popular Dog Names of 2018
• Microsoft Edge: What went wrong, what’s next
• Can Firefox survive in a Google world?
• How to tell if you’re not getting enough sleep
• They’re making a real HAL 9000, and it’s called CASE
• The Apple Watch ECG detected something strange about my heart rhythm
• Scientists Discover Giant Leopard-Spotted Salamander Living In Florida
• NASA concerned about culture of “inappropriateness” at SpaceX
• Christmas Dinner Rocketed To International Space Station
• What does Martian wind sound like? Now we know
• Voyager 2 just entered interstellar space
• InSight Mars lander takes its first selfie
• Geminid meteor shower and bright comet team up for super sky show

But Wait, There’s More…

• Tech’s invasion of our privacy made us more paranoid in 2018
• The rockstar hackers protecting you from the bad guys
• War for Attention: $300 Million Study Shines Light on Screen Time for Kids
• We tried Amazon’s bizarre Alexa microwave and weren’t convinced
• Former Facebook manager says the company is failing black people
• Leaning Tower of Pisa ‘now leaning less’
• Cockroach milk: The superfood of the future is now
• The Boring Company won’t pursue LA tunnel under 405 freeway anymore
• Elon Musk sounds crazy, but his ideas might just work
• Arizona Man Shoots Himself In The Groin At A Walmart
• OMG! Now California wants to tax text-messaging?
• Microsoft Office has pretty new icons but they have a fatal flaw
• After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
• Alexa gains support for location-based reminders and routines, calling features & more
• AT&T makes it more expensive to cancel DirecTV or Internet service
• Scientists improve smart phone battery life by up to 60 percent

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