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A U.N. convoy passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Aug. 14, 2014. Reuters/Luc Gnago

schwit1 writes An investigation into the recent failed Soyuz launch of the EU's Galileo satellites has found that the Russian Fregat upper stage fired correctly, but its software was programmed for the wrong orbit. From ...

After complaints about the misleading Yo promotion to win one of 20 Moto 360 smartwatches, Motorola is trying to make amends with users by running another contest for another chance at winning.

Alienware's Area-51 gaming desktop isn't the only extreme product the company has today. Joining the triangular monster in the usual form-factor stakes is the Dell UltraSharp 34-inch Monitor (U3415W), the company's first...

Led Zeppelin's string of reissues continues in October with the release of the band's remastered IV, the 1971 album that features signature song "Stairway to Heaven." The English rockers are teasing the Oct. 28 release, ...

If your set-top box isn't quite router-like enough for you, there's the antenna-toting Orion R28 from Tronsmart, an Android TV Box that is now available for pre-order. Two models are available currently, with a third one...

Samsung and Nike have announced a new version of the Nike+ Running app just for Samsung Gear S smartwatch. The Gear S offers Bluetooth and GPS connectivity, so runners can leave their phones at home but still map their r...

Andreas Kolbe writes Wikipedia is well known to have a very large gender imbalance, with survey-based estimates of women contributors ranging from 8.5% to around 16%. This is a more extreme gender imbalance than even tha...

After a thorough review of cost and engineering issues, NASA managers formally approved the development of the agency's mammoth heavy lift rocket – the Space Launch System or SLS – which will be the world's most powe...

Hollywood hasn’t had much luck curtailing movie piracy over the past several years, but a new draft of anti-piracy legislation could be a frightening sign of things to come as studios and executives run out of options....

When Agent Peggy Carter finally makes the leap from the Captain America franchise to her own show on ABC this fall, she's going to bring some friends along with her Marvel announced today that One Tree Hill alum Chad Mic...

Audiophiles are well known to take spend a whole lot of money on a good quality piece of audio equipment, simply because they can afford to, not to mention being able to enjoy all the creations and masterpieces of maestr...

 Real-time analytics service Chartbeat has been banging the drum for the past few months about the need to focus less on clicks and more on attention, when it comes to measuring the success of content and especially ads...

EFS said its DeOrbiter could salvage the European Galileo satellites in a useless orbit after a failure of a Europeanized Soyuz rocket's Fregat upper stage.

An eruption started around midnight local time (8 p.m. ET) north of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano.

Google has taken the lid off a previously secret project that is being run out of its semi-sercet Google X research arm. Project Wing is focusing on the development of "a delivery system that uses self-flying vehicles." ...

"Madden NFL 15" has just been released but it's already proven to be quite the game in such a short time, glitches and all.

A U.S. judge has refused to grant Apple a ban on all nine of the Samsung phones that stole iPhone technology. The judge argued that Apple had not proven that the infringement affected sales.

All photos: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac. Additional reporting by Nicole Martinelli.

In yet another sign that the launch of Apple's long-rumored iWatch may be imminent, the company has reportedly updated its privacy policy for how health apps handle user data. Apple recently changed its guidelines for de...

Once upon a time there was a beer. A beer with bold flavor and character. A beer that was supposedly America's first IPA. But then the 1970s happened The tastes of the masses changed, and not for the better. A tidal wave...

Sometimes, the right people see the right articles, and can add some needed insight. One clever sleuth thinks they've cracked the case on the iPhone 6's RAM. Originally thought to be improved form the iPhone 5S, we may b...