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Apple has acquired Israel-based motion technology company PrimeSense for an undisclosed sum.

Like most agencies, NASA is always looking for a way to combat bugs, or problems, in its systems. Sometimes those bugs are actually bugs — tiny insects that go splat on flying craft. All those insect guts stuck to the ...

The issue of applying the GST to goods purchased by Australians through overseas online stores will be on the agenda when Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey meets his state and territory counterparts on Wednesday.

The Voyager mission may be the ultimate expression of our desire to explore, but why does that will exist in the first place? Why is it unique to humans?

VANCOUVER - There were cheers and the clinking of champagne glasses when two Canadian space cameras blasted off for the International Space Station on Monday aboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft. The cameras -- one shoo...

Garlic may be bad for your breath, but it's good for your baby, according to a new study. This study is the first to identify two compounds derived from garlic -- diallyl sulfide and ajoene -- that significantly reduce t...

New research indicates that extroverted and introverted children respond differently to environmental cues, such as plate size, when it comes to portion control.

Facebook on how it has managed to ease the pain of running one of the world's largest fleet of servers.

Disjointed and outdated systems, poor data quality and project failures are hampering health initiatives in New Zealand.

Ludicrous $500 off-contract price likely won't entice many to forgo the service agreement Although the carrier didn't make much noise about it, U.S. Cellular is now selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. While we knew the s...

We had caught wind of a limited edition white Xbox One console that would be an exclusive to developers who worked on the Xbox One at Microsoft. Unsurprisingly some units have made their way onto eBay, with one going for...

Thinking about making the switch from from iPhone to Android? "Many" of Eric Schmidt's friends are, he says — and so he wrote them a 900-word guide to walk them through the process. Google's executive chairman took to ...

After the release of two 3D-printable firearms was met by warnings from lawmakers, Philadelphia has become the first US city to ban 3D-printed guns. The Philadelphia city council voted unanimously to pass a bill banning ...

wabrandsma writes "Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, ...

Host Analytics has launched a new platform to move Excel models into a cloud service that allows users to take spreadsheet data and reuse it for other purposes without manual intervention. The new platform, AirliftXL, is...

People have produced distilled water since ancient times via distillation -- the process of boiling water in a still, then collecting the condensed steam. Impurities get left behind when the water evaporates.

This animation shows the timeline of over 37 000 scientific observations made by ESA's Herschel space observatory throughout its entire mission, condensed into less than a minute....

Color-changing LED lighting is probably the most obvious way of introducing some smart home tech, and though Philips’ hue is the best known system, that hasn’t stopped startup rivals from trying to take its crown. Lu...

In the second episode of Amazon's Betas, the main character makes a tongue-in-cheek launch video for the hookup app he's developing. It's to poke fun at the cliched life a blogger accused him of living in a harsh takedow...

If you felt like the Apple Touch ID sensor in the iPhone 5s wasn’t enough, that you’d like so much security in your Apple products that it’s easier to get locked out than get in, you’re in luck. There’s a set o...

Those who are dying to get a taste of “The Wolf of Wall Street” are getting a special treat today: Paramount has released a one-minute clip of the upcoming Martin Scorsese pic, dubbed, fittingly, “You Work for Me.�...