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After a brilliant first test flight, and historic Pacific Ocean splashdown and recovery on Dec. 5, 2014, NASA's Orion spacecraft was brought onshore inside the USS Anchorage to the US Naval Base San Diego and has now bee...

Robots, virtual visit from will.i.am aim to get kids excited about programming.

Price: $130 The 3DRudder is a revolutionary feet-controlled 3D navigation and motion controller. The device is used while seated, all the user has to do is simply rest their feet on it. To move forward the user tilts the...

A breathtaking weather phenomenon turned the Grand Canyon into a cauldron of soupy cloud cover on Thursday The rare scenes were caused by a temperature inversion, which involves cold air filling the canyon while warm air...

CERN announced today at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world a...

A team of researchers has developed inulin-propionate ester, or simply IPE, an ingredient that has proven its effectiveness in stopping people from gaining weight during early tests.

Sony's entire limited run of PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition consoles, in the original gray colour of the first PlayStation, have almost sold out everywhere. And bar a few being made available online for UK fans f...

The organisation mapping the seafloor in the search for the wreckage of MH370, has released a video and images showing the underwater area it is exploring. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is leading the sea...

It never occurred to me to wonder who or what cuts those soul crushing pre-packaged sandwiches that I always find myself eating at an airport, but now I know: it's one of these magic machines. The cutting arm seeks out w...

Broken update also blocks install of third-party software.

Iowa is leading the charge to become the first state in the nation to issue a digital ID. The state wants to create a smartphone-based driver's license via an app that could be installed Android smartphones or the iPhone...

If you are a graphic or web designer, chances are you spend a lot of your time working with Photoshop. And, why not? It is, hands down, the most popular and feature-rich photo editing and graphic design suite in use…

Duke University in North Carolina and Oschner Health System in Louisiana are two of the first hospitals to incorporate HealthKit into their day-to-day operations. Duke's Dr. Ricky Bloomfield and Oschner's Dr. Richard Mil...

Though he’s toyed with escape games for years, Turkish developer Maruf Nebil didn’t get hooked on the genre until 100 Floors hit the App Store in 2012. When The Room Two upped the ante with gorgeous 3-D environments ...

Ford announced the next generation of its voice-control "infotainment" car system on Thursday. It seems that Ford is trying to get back in everyone's good graces by tossing the name MyFord Touch and rebranding it as Sync...

Rosetta researchers think comets are less likely to be the source of Earth's water than previously thought, which also makes them a great source of fuel for fictional starship warp cores.

Back in the 1980s, NASA's Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn's moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us with high-resolution, ...

 Remember back in November of last year, when I wrote that YouTube needed to build their own tool for making GIFs from videos? Some called me crazy. Many, however, agreed completely. It seems YouTube agreed, too. YouTub...

 Will the Oculus Rift someday bring your hands into virtual reality? That seems to be a direction they’re moving in, based on some acquisitions they just made. This morning, Oculus quietly disclosed a pair of acquisit...

Could BitTorrent turn out to be an Internet service provider's best friend?

Dr. Dre has had a very good year. This week Forbes magazine released its rankings of the world's highest paid musicians, and the good Doctor took the number one spot by half a billion dollars more than the second place e...

A new Ford Focus RS will be among 12 new performance models Ford plans to launch between now and 2020. The Blue Oval is consolidating its performance operations under one global umbrella. The post Ford Performance confir...