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Cool use of social media in the US to crowdsource imagery and monitor recovery from fire #morganfire02 pic.twitter.com/Zy952bzz9k -- Shiny Red (@Shiny_Red) May 20, 2014 Hashtags are nothing more than a novelty byproduct ...

The Leica C is a premium compact camera with a built-in electronic viewfinder. The Leica C also offers a 12 megapixel sensor, 7x zoom lens with fast f/2 aperture, 10fps burst shooting, RAW support, wi-fi/NFC connectivity...

Remember Google's Project Tango, a smartphone with depth-sensing cameras capable of capturing precise 3D images of both objects and people? According to the WSJ's homies people familiar with the matter, the company is ab...

Water was discovered in the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Dragon spacecraft that recently returned to Earth from a month-long stay at the international space station, but so far as NASA knew May 21, none of the ag...

Remember the days when Facebook was simple? There was no News Feed, no FarmVille requests, no massive privacy violations--it was a nice, clean directory of all your friends and their basic information. Well, thanks to a ...

You wake up and there is definitely something wrong with your stomach. Could it be the tacos last night? Oh man, it was definitely the tacos at that dirty joint. So what do you do? You whine about your diarrhea on Yelp a...

Blurred vision contributes to the risk of falling in older adults --- but getting new glasses with a big change in vision prescription may increase the risk rather than decreasing it, according to a new article. Unaccust...

Google fills in a gap in its browser-based OS, building software to run scanners and an interface to let Web apps use it.

An anonymous reader writes "In a time when the government avows that it cannot carry out justice without issuing secret warrants and National Security Letters to anyone other than the suspect, it is truly noteworthy when...

A breakthrough in solid state drive processing means current drives can be boosted 300 per cent faster with 60 per cent better energy efficiency. Current flash drives can't overwrite data on the same memory area. That me...

When you're in a hurry to get that much needed sugar fix, you can't be bothered to futz with things like actual currency or debit cards. Thankfully, Tim Horton's now allows mobile payment options from iOS, Android and of...

SETI Institute scientist Peter Jenniskens first predicted the May 23 Camelopardalid meteor shower 10 years ago. He is now ready to solve the mystery of the comet's past activity.

NASA has a housing development in the works to provide living quarters for groups of mice and rats in the prime real estate aboard the International Space Station. NASA's Rodent Research Facility, developed by scientists...

The heads of the U.S., European and German space agencies, without naming Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitry Rogozin by name, sought to characterize his remarks as noise, and not a signal of Russian intentions.

Hubble, Kepler, Chandra and other orbiting observatories got reprieves, but the Spitzer mission may be canceled   --

A Senate panel set aside $100 million Thursday to develop a US rocket engine as an alternative to Russian equipment currently used to launch military satellites into orbit.

Kiwi, the iconic flightless bird of New Zealand, is not a migrant from Australia, a new DNA study conducted by the University of Adelaide said, adding that the chick-sized Kiwi's closest relative is an extinct giant bird...

Microsoft wants its tablet-PC combo to go mainstream this time around.

On the heels of a massive cyberattack that affected its 145 million users, eBay is reportedly facing a formal investigation with the government over its security practices. As first reported by CNET, eBay will have to an...

Women with diabetes are 44 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease than men with diabetes, shows a systematic review and meta-analysis of some 850,000 people. The data used in the study stretches back almos...

Update: Following on the release of a significant new v1.4 firmware update for the Pen E-P5 last week, Olympus has issued another fix. Version 1.5 reportedly addresses a problem introduced by 1.4 in which displayed valu...

Still stumped what to get your dad for Father’s Day? Apple’s hoping you’ll go big and gift him an iPad Air, but even if you just want to get a sweet iPhone case for the old man the online Apple…