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Cuban blogger launches news site, swiftly hacked in Cuba by site with pro-government writers

Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team's nanomotor is an important step toward d...

Angry taxi drivers vented their frustration on a London office of e-hailing app Hailo, part of a wave of discontent surrounding apps such as Uber.

The request by the Obama administration for revisions to the U.S.A. Freedom Act bill set off closed-door negotiations between lawmakers and executive branch officials that stretched to midnight on Monday and resumed Tues...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems is working to get American parts onto the European service module slated to power the first crewed flight of the Orion deep-space capsule it is building for NASA.

(Reuters) - E-commerce company eBay Inc said client identity information including emails, addresses and birthdays was stolen in a hacking attack between late February and early March.

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You can never have too many small computers, with mini PCs offering several perks over their larger brethren: less energy usage, easier integration into entertainment setups, and more. PQ Labs …

I really wish YouTube and the Internet as we know it today existed when I was in high school. So instead of reading textbooks and taking notes in class, I could just watch YouTube videos and Wikipedia entries on any test...

A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical computer ever could.

By reducing energy use in its hybrid cars' power control units, Toyota claims it can increase fuel economy by 10 percent.

Letter from Google to Securities and Exchange Commission outlines a plan to place ads on items such as refrigerators, car dashboards and even thermostats in the not-too-distant future.

Game publisher goes to court for its chunk of change after Oculus gets bought by Facebook.

If you've ever wanted to tell your Facebook friends what you're listening to -- say, REM's "It's The End of The World And We Know it (And I Feel Fine)" -- without having to spell the whole thing out, well, now you can. F...

Few things are quite as entertaining as throwing straight dudes into the deep end of queer culture. In this video, YouTuber Neil McNeil sits down with nine different straight men to hear what they know about location-bas...

Something is not right. It was unclear at the time of this writing exactly what happened, but it looks like eBay may have been the victim of some kind of breach. The company is apparently preparing to instruct all users ...

United States officials say the N.S.A. is free to spy on trade negotiators to help American trade officials, and by extension, American industries and workers they are trying to bolster.

Despite a leak of its source code, an Android program aimed at compromising online bank accounts is still commanding US$5,000 per copy, one of the highest prices seen for a type of malware, according to research from Sym...

 Last month, an anonymous blogger claiming to be a former employee slammed Google with shaky allegations it canceled AdSense accounts so it wouldn’t have to pay publishers. Despite a strong denial from Google, that cl...

Tesla is set to deliver the "right side drive" version of its Model S electric vehicle in the U.K. starting next month, opening a new chapter in company founder Elon Musk's mission to push electric cars into the global m...

Beijing has summoned a US ambassador and accused Washington of double standards over its unprecedented indictment of five Chinese military officers for cyber-espionage.

Shark skin is famously sleek and dragless, the envy of swimsuit designers. Perhaps less famous is what shark skin's oddly rough surface looks like up close: an eerie matrix of microscopic tooth-like scales. Now, scientis...