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Frequent Locations is an intelligent feature on the iPhone that allows the device to track where you go and learn what places are frequently visited. Once the iPhone has determined some locations that are most common, sa...

A single bacterial strain may help researchers better understand the processes of global carbon cycling.

The airline says a pornographic image sent to a customer from its Twitter account was actually sent to it by someone else. Is this entirely believable?

Ancient spherical fossils dating back to around 500 million years ago appear to be the embryos of a yet-unknown animal. The fossils come from the Cambrian, a time when the diversity of life exploded.

The ubiquitous USB 3.0 connector is advancing to light-speed and longer-distance data transfers thanks to optical cables from Corning that started shipping on Tuesday. Corning's first USB 3.Optical Cable--which stretches...

Price: $10 The Leef Access microSD Card Reader has a convenient solution to transfer files and data from any microSD card to your Android smartphones and tablets. With this fusion of a microUSB connector and a microSD ca...

astroengine (1577233) writes "NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has imaged something peculiar on the outermost edge of the gas giant's A-ring. A bright knot, or arc, has been spotted 20 percent brighter than the ...

Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA captured this time lapse imagery of the 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse, from moments before Earth completely blocked the Moon's view of the Sun until full totality when the moon is ful...

Nikon is on the up when it comes to its compact cameras. And if you're looking for a high-end model then the Coolpix P7800 may have already made it onto your shortlist, alongside similar models such as the Canon PowerSho...

Apple is buying up a hydro-electric project in Oregon, hoping to lock into an environmentally sustainable way of powering its massive data centers.

Apple has been releasing its weekly top games charts as of late, and they make interesting reading. The latest list — published Tuesday afternoon — shows the cumulative iOS game downloads for the week running April 7...

Virtualization vendor's ambition to offer the tools needed in a mobile-cloud era, spanning from the network to the desktop, evokes memories of Sun Microsystems' failed "The Network is The Computer" campaign.

If you're looking to hand off a Samsung Galaxy S5 to someone else and there's already stuff on there, it's wise to do a factory reset to wipe all of the existing data from the device. This is a pretty straightforward pro...

This week we look at lightweight, easy-to-carry camera bags that are perfect for carrying a mirrorless camera, an iPad and a couple of other bits - because the days of crushing your shoulders with a giant backpack filled...

Microsoft's Office Online--the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote--is headed for the Chrome Web Store as a series of apps.

Google has updated its terms of service to reflect that it analyzes user content including emails to provide users tailored advertising, customized search results and other features. The Internet giant's scanning of user...

Price: $11 The Bomb Kitchen Timer is the perfect device you could place on your kitchen tops to never let your dishes enter the zone of overcooked disasters. The timer consisting of a mechanical 60-minute countdown will ...

MIT chemists design nanoparticles that can deliver three cancer drugs at a time.

Following some recent leaks, Ricoh has taken the wraps off its latest offering, the Pentax 645Z medium-format camera. With the camera comes a 51.4-megapixel CMOS sensor, as well as a …

As part of its plan to blanket the Earth in an omnipresent wireless Internet network, Google has just acquired high-altitude drone manufacturer, Titan Aerospace. The post Google acquires drone company Titan Aerospace app...

An unresponsive trackpad can ruin a laptop. But how do you test for that without having access to ready-made equipment? If you're Google, you build your own machine. The company's Chrome OS team has created the Quickstep...

Happy Tax Day! Do you know where your tax dollars are going? No? Doesn't that seem a little ridiculous? What if you could tell the government exactly how to spend your hard-earned money? Now you can--even if it is hypoth...