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  STREET CYCLOPS   Artwork by OakOak Website | Facebook | Twitter   Another gem from OakOak (featured previously here and here) shows a tiny Cyclops somewhere in Paris. When the sunlight is just right, something delig...

With Facebook's competitor Slingshot now out in the wild, Snapchat is adding a new Our Story feature to enable users to create communal, curated feeds based around particular events and occasions. The post Snapchat takes...

Saturn's largest moon Titan, dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and covered in a hazy atmosphere, comes to life in these stunning images captured by instruments aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The underlying architecture of a cellular signaling complex involved in the body's response to stimuli such as light and pain has been determined by a team of researchers. This complex, consisting of a human cell surface...

Researchers report that they have deciphered the inner workings of a protein called YiiP that prevents the lethal buildup of zinc inside bacteria. They say understanding YiiP's movements will help in the design of drugs ...

The FCC's E-rate program has been funding classroom internet access for a while, but it's focused on wired connections; that's a bit short-sighted in an era where many laptops and tablets are WiFi-only. Agency officials ...

Doctors Without Borders is warning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has yet to be brought under control.

Michigan Governor may veto an e-cig law because he says it's not strong enough to stop sales to minors. His actions come on the heels of a California congresswoman's action regarding e-cigarettes.

No need to upgrade: your phone needs only its microphone to pay for a taxi or join Lady Gaga's light show. But who else is whispering in its tiny ear? (full text available to subscribers)

Scientists have discovered how a family of proteins -- cation diffusion facilitators (CDFs) -- regulates an important cellular cycle where a cell's energy generated is converted to necessary cellular functions. The findi...

Female prison inmates in California get sterilized without their lawful consent. Although some may be unaware of the sterilization protocols, former inmates claim coercion from prison medical staff takes place.

Folks in New Zealand were in a panic after an object fell from the sky and into the Pacific Ocean. Right away, it was thought to be a plane crash, but it was only a Google Loon balloon.

The U.S. government uses them to bomb alleged terrorists in far-away places, tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are all toying with the idea of using them commercially and, in recent months, they've become t...

Advocatus Diaboli sends this excerpt from Wired: Police in Florida have, at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, been deliberately deceiving judges and defendants about their use of a controversial surveillance tool...

 Update: This is a video that’s been shared throughout the Internet purporting to show a concerted DDOS attack coming mainly from China and concentrated on United States internet servers on the day that Facebook’s s...

Thirty-two undergraduate students from a like number of colleges and universities are participating in an eight-week NASA Airborne Science Program field experience designed to immerse them in the agency's Earth Science r...

 When it comes to collecting and organizing information, Google is well on its way to establishing its hegemony through the registration of 6 billion daily unique searches and indexing of over 50 billion web pages (2013...

Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this Vine a few days ago from the International Space Station. It's so beautiful, it makes me want to delete my Vine app. Because I know I'll never even come close to this beauty.

If you’re a New York-based coder or wannabe coder looking to learn Apple's new programming language Swift, you may want to check out an upcoming evening tech workshop organized by software development firm TurnToTech. ...

Detroit has been on a steady decline over the past few years. With Google's Street View, you can turn back time and see the decay of the Motor City, using Street View's new "time travel" feature. The post See Detroit’s...

Back in Apple's dark ages — during Steve Jobs' interregnum in the mid-1990s — the company experimented with some strange products. Everyone remembers the ill-fated Newton PDA, for instance, which was considered ahead...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Unwilling or unable to pay exorbitant hotel prices, hundreds of soccer fans in Brazil for the World Cup have opted to camp out on the beach during the tournament. Fans arriving in the Brazilian...