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Tale as old as time. Now that family social network Life360 is firmly established in the big leagues — with 33m registered families, and having raised $50m last week from ADT — it was inevitable that the patent troll...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concerning the subject of Net Neutrality. In it, Wozniak runs down his history with telecom and details the various...

A simple urine test can indicate the presence of venous thromboembolism, a blood clot that has broken free from its point of origin and that travels through the bloodstream, eventually lodging in a vein. The test evaluat...

Dinosaurs researchers are suggesting could be the largest species ever discovered have been identified from their fossil remains, around 130 feet long and weighing roughly the same as 14 elephants. …

Frozen in time since the 1950s, Bellosguardo, the estate of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark in Santa Barbara, has been kept up for $40,000 per month. There was enough money in the estate to keep a full staff employed, w...

After a day on the final formula, we talk taste, texture, gas, and the future of food.

[From AppleTell] Mobile Safari is pretty good, but on the iPad, I'm more likely to turn to a couple of indie browsers as alternates to Apple's default iOS web browser.

Dr. Joseph J. Atick is a pioneering researcher and entrepreneur in the field of biometrics and facial recognition. After investing in the technology in the early 1990s, he went on to make his fortune as the rest of the w...

The week in cloud: Amazon joins VMware, Google and Salesforce.com as Microsoft partners not invited to the Microsoft partner conference.

Michael Jackson's hologram will live on -- at least long enough to "perform" a song from the artist's posthumous album Xscape on stage during Billboard's Music Awards on Sunday night. A federal judge in Las Vegas denied ...

Ever needed to remotely check the battery level of a Bluetooth keyboard connected to a Mac? Or maybe you’re just a heavy Terminal user and wanted to see the current battery life of a wireless keyboard without having to...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 3:05 p.m. EDT Sunday, in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 300 miles west of Baja California, returning more than 3,500 pounds of NASA cargo and science samples from the I...

This brain-bender of a coffee table by Brooklyn-based designer Ian Stell looks like an oversized game of Jenga, but the slats have been engineered to shape shift from acute triangle to equilateral with absolutely no topp...

Patients with pancreatic cancer have a different and distinct profile of specific bacteria in their saliva compared to healthy controls and even patients with other cancers or pancreatic diseases, according to new resear...

Bacteria live in the bladders of healthy women, discrediting the common belief that normal urine is sterile. This study also revealed that bladder bacteria in healthy women differ from the bladder bacteria in women affec...

Women plagued by repeated urinary tract infections may be able to prevent the infections with help from over-the-counter painkillers, new research in mice shows. Scientists found that inhibiting COX-2, an immune protein ...

What was your favorite space news story of the last week?

SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today (May 18), bringing more than 1,000 lbs. of science cargo back to Earth from the International Space Station.

We know our ancestors cosied up to our Neanderthal cousins, but did their liaisons leave an imprint on today's languages? (full text available to subscribers)

The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA.

The experience of finding patterns, especially faces, in data is a phenomenon known as pareidolia. Humans are particularly prone to these types of misidentifications, possibly because they may have provided evolutionary ...

Call it a porcine occultation. It took nearly a year but I finally got help from the ornamental pig in my wife’s flower garden. This weekend it became the preferred method for blocking the sun to better see and photogr...