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At some point between Thanksgiving and Christmas, after the leftover turkey is gone but before the mail-order fruitcake arrives, many Americans engage in the annual ritual of putting up decorations. There is no data set ...

Want a one terabyte drive that's as fast as an SSD and only the size of a postage stamp? Of course you do - and Crossbar, a technology startup founded in 2010, thinks it knows how to deliver just that. The post Breakthro...

The 17.35 Virgin Atlantic flight from London Heathrow to Boston four days before Christmas turned out to be particularly eventful for the 243 passengers. And in a very good way. Not only was each and every one of them ha...

Silicon Valley's top investors predict a big year for bitcoin, extruded gastronomy and me

Ballistic capture, a low-energy method that has coasted spacecraft into lunar orbit, could help humanity visit the Red Planet much more often --

Earlier this week, we reported on an apparent threat by an unnamed agency to disable the Tor anonymity network. According to founder Roger Dingledine: The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacit...

"So... do you have a boyfriend?" When you're feasting at home during the holidays, cringe-inducing questions from your relatives are not only annoying, they can sometimes be downright invasive. Lucky for you, Arianna Sim...

Worried you'll be singled out for the hassle and humiliation of a secondary screening at the airport when traveling to another country? Wikileaks has published a leaked document from the CIA that explains what makes agen...

Some people wake up spewing Pinterest out their fingertips. For the rest of us, thank god for YouTube. Wrapping presents doesn't exactly come easy, so we dug up a couple of solid tutorials for how to wrap your Christmas ...

The cyber attacks on Sony have given rise to much commentary on the sophistication of the North Korean state's cybersecurity program. The hermit kingdom is far from alone in its offensive and defensive cyber build up wit...

Meet the new Luke Cage Marvel confirmed Monday the long-rumored addition of Good Wife actor Mike Colter to its series, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, coming to Netflix in 2015. See also: Marvel has found its star for Netflix's 'J...

Anti-austerity activists hurled French fries at Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Monday, who interrupted a press conference to pelt him with fast food. During a press conference, female protesters dressed in blac...

Apple today released an OS X NTP Security Update for Mac users running 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. The update is recommended for all users and fixes a “critical security issue with the softw...

An anonymous reader writes The TSA has gathered an impressive pile of confiscated weapons this year. In early November the agency had already discovered 1,855 firearms at checkpoints. In addition to guns, they've also co...

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) announced the establishment of 11 Genomic Medicine Centers to achieve an ambitious goal of decoding and collecting the complete genetic codes of 100,000 people by 2017. The aim of t...

"It's quite vexing as there's no precedent for this kind of issue."

New video recorded during NASA's Orion return through Earth's atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth's atmosphere during its Dec. 5 flight test....

Conditions on Mars -- low temperatures and low atmospheric pressure -- do not allow water to exist in liquid form in open reservoirs as it would on Earth. However, on Mars, there is a powerful layer of permafrost, with l...

Your 2014 online dating experiences could be they key to more romance in 2015. Zoosk analyzed 4 million messages and 430,000 dating profiles to see what people responded to in 2014, and to predict what's coming in the ne...

Local 'Daphnia' waterfleas are currently being prepared by scientists at the University of Birmingham for their trip to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will be observed by astronauts.

ESA engineers unwrapped a welcome Christmas present: the latest Galileo satellite. The navigation satellite will undergo a full checkout in Europe's largest satellite test facility to prove its readiness for space.

(CAGE - Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Climate and Environment) Images of craters on Yamal Peninsula, caused by collapsing permafrost, have become world famous. But did you know that this permafrost extends to the ocean ...