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NASA's Curiosity rover, now exploring the alluvium at the base of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater for over two months, has struck pay dirt: the gravel and river stone conglomerate laid down by an ancient Martian stream!

Take a low-flying trip around the Bay (in photos).

About the size of a case of beer, the German-built MASCOT rover will bounce across the surface of an asteroid as part of the Hayabusa 2 mission

One of California's oldest environmental battles is on the San Francisco ballot. Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park holds most of San Francisco's water supply. But some environmental groups want to turn back t...

Information provided by the Department of Homeland Security's "fusion centres" endangered citizens' civil liberties, finds a damning new report

Plucky Zucky aims to dump them into NY legal Mount Doom The 57 different cases against Facebook or the NASDAQ over the free-content ad firm's disastrous IPO have all been mashed up into one uber-lawsuit to be heard in Ne...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Friday that it will spend more than $1 billion to buy its corporate headquarters in Seattle from Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen's investment firm.

How much involvement does Justin Timberlake have in the new MySpace? When will othes be able to try the site? ABC News got the answers from the CEO and COO of MySpace.

What do you get if you combine 14 acoustic guitars, 31 motors, 300 metres of cable and an open-source Arduino computer? A great, loud, wonderful...

Jubilant Scottish cafe celebrates A90 Behemoth triumph It's official: "The A90 Behemoth" is the ultimate bacon sarnie, according to our pork-loving gourmet readers.…

Researchers SICK OF SPAM submit ridiculous piece to Hakin9 Security researchers have taken revenge on a publishing outlet that spams them with requests to write unpaid articles – by using a bogus submission to sat...

Apple co-founder, CEO and icon Steve Jobs died a year ago today, on 5 October 2011. When he died, from a rare form of pancreatic...

Facebook is working to fix a "bug" which apparently allowed users to inflate the number of 'Likes' on a page. A video posted to YouTube,...

Reports ‘ping’ Kiwi spy agency for spying on Dotcom's Modern Warfare sessions The slow-motion train wreck of the Megaupload investigation rumbles on, with a new report alleging Kim Dotcom’s Internet c...

What would happen if voters treated presidential debates more like The Voice? This video pretty much sums it up. Obama has a "great voice", and Mitt Romney has "badass hair". SEE MORE: Carson Daly Tells All About ‘...

Who does it think it is, JK Rowling? Say what you like about Microsoft, but the company has never lacked chutzpah.…

Study not iron-clad, but ask yourself, 'Do you feel lucky?' According to a new study, drinking more than three cups of coffee per day has been shown to correlate with an increased risk of developing glaucoma, which can l...

All formats can be uploaded to Google Docs Google’s plan to give old Microsoft Office file formats a quiet bullet behind the woodpile seems to have fallen by the wayside, with Mountain View quietly revising its fe...

What's more intuitive than shaking your iPad to print, eh? Apple has filed a brace of patents that, in part, describe methods to control printing and print settings by having the user physically interact with their iOS d...

Two Silicon Valley technology conferences in mid-September came up with opposing headlines, not unlike two colliding neutron stars. They are also contrarian coming from two elite members of the venture capital community.

WASHINGTON -- The popular video-streaming site Hulu has seen a huge bump in political advertising this year. Candidate campaigns, issue groups, super PACs and others...

Consolidation ahead for US wireless market Reports that US mobile carriers T-Mobile and MetroPCS are headed for a merger may be premature if rival carrier Sprint Nextel is close to making a counter-bid, as sources claim....