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I've completed the campaign, I've played online, and I've shot just about every weapon the game has to offer. And I can say unequivocally that Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare brings the franchise back to a place of promin...

One science lesson in school led to an emergency room visit for a student with a life-threatening aneurysm. The student felt a lump while searching his neck for a pulse as his class learned about the human circulatory sy...

Annoyed that Black Friday kicks off on Thanksgiving? Start time is really more like the Wednesday before... or November 1st.

[From GamerTell] Somehow, Kemonomix+ ended up getting released outside of Japan, and 3DS owners need to take a chance on it.

An ancient mammoth preserved in permafrost could yield the best hoping of cloning the extinct beast yet.

Researchers say they can predict the outbreak of an infectious disease by watching people search Wikipedia for information and symptoms. The technique could yield a global disease-forecasting system, they suggest.

The program could violate the Fourth Amendment, some privacy groups say

Nearly two centuries after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte's belongings are selling like hotcakes One of the French emperor's famous bicorne hats sold for 1.8 million euros ($2.25 million) — five times its estimated valu...

A new video posted online purports to show the flaming wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 just moments after it crashed in eastern Ukraine Lasting one minute and 20 seconds, the video is titled "The first minutes af...

The top electronics retailers and big box stores are offering deals on Google Chromecast this Black Friday, but which one has the lowest price of all?

It's not just tech giants (and President Obama) pushing for a tougher approach to net neutrality -- other outlets want reforms, too. A trio of regulatory filings reveal that representatives from Bank of America, Ford, UP...

A mutation in just a single gene can prevent damage from LDL cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease, mimicking the effect of common medication.

 Human interaction is hard. Humans are weird animals, covered in hair and full of blood and stuff and getting to know one or two for the purposes of procreation or whatever is really hard. But not if you have Tinder! It...

Snack on chewy Chewbacca cookies -- as well as Darth Vader, Yoda, Boba Fett, C-3PO and Stormtrooper -- with these festive "Star Wars" gingerbread cookie cutters from ThinkGeek.

Alien life might flourish on an exotic kind of carbon dioxide, researchers say. This 'supercritical' carbon dioxide, which has features of both liquids and gases, could be key to extraterrestrial organisms much as water ...

ErnieKey writes with a Reuters story that says Google's Glass, not yet out for general purchase, has been wearing on the patience of both developers and would-be customers: "After an initial burst of enthusiasm, signs th...

In children, energy drinks can cause serious side effects, such as seizures and cardiovascular problems.

Billly Gates (198444) writes "What would be unthinkable a decade ago is Visual Studio supporting W3C HTML and CSS and now apps on other platforms. Visual Studio 2015 preview is available for download which includes suppo...

The Breakthrough Prize ceremony is an awards show honoring not the brightest stars in Hollywood but the brightest minds in the fields of physics, mathematics and life sciences. Hosted by Seth MacFarlane, the 2015 Breakth...

Kim Dotcom is probably the most wanted man in the movie theaters' fight against piracy. He's under investigation by the FBI, and they're trying to extradite him from sunny, safe New Zealand to the States. But those pale ...

An anonymous reader writes Debian developer Tollef Fog Heen submitted his resignation to the Debian Systemd package maintainers team mailing list today (Sun. Nov. 16th, 2014). In his brief post, he praises the team, but ...

The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack.