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Shooting a portrait? Don't forget about Perspective Distortion.

State-sponsored hacking attempts frequently rely on specially written software, but that's a risky move. Unless it's well-made, custom code can be a giveaway as to who's responsible. Attackers are switching things up, ho...

Musician Yoon Mi Rae is not too happy with Sony Pictures right now. Because even though the company has aggressively gone after people who don't respect intellectual property rights, they seem to need a lesson in IP law ...

Don't get us wrong. Space-based telescopes like Hubble and Spitzer brought us absolutely stunning images of deep space this year. But some of the most out-of-this-world images of space taken in 2014 came from star-obsess...

Initial results of the Deciphering Developmental Disorders program have already led to the identification of 12 genes that cause developmental disorder in children.

Astronomers keeping an eye on Jupiter's moon Io got a surprise on Dec. 16 when it looked like something had taken a bite out of it: What they saw was another of Jupiter's moons, Europa, passing directly in front of Io, w...

On Christmas day, astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted about a man who was born Dec. 25, and changed the world by age 30. But he wasn't referring to Jesus Instead, Tyson was talking about Isaac Newton, w...

Microsoft published a list of weekly deals for users of Xbox One and Xbox 360. Until Dec. 31, users can purchase cheap several huge names in gaming, such as 'Grand Theft Auto V' and 'Alien: Isolation.'

Sony's online video game network is still struggling after a suspected DDoS attack brought it down on Christmas.

Thanks in part to the Ebola crisis, neglected diseases have grabbed the world's attention. These diseases predominantly affect developing nations with limited resources to fund research, pay for treatments, and support p...

If you want to use a Playstation 3 controller to play games on a Mac, you’ll find that connecting the PS3 controller and syncing it for use with OS X games is actually quite simple, regardless of what version of OS X t...

Everything from overhunting and a peasant uprising to deforestation and an alien invasion has been proposed to explain why the Mayan civilization collapsed, Smithsonian notes.

Hackers said Friday that they leaked data associated with 13,000 accounts

How does entrepreneurship education thrive at the university level, and how could it flourish in Angola? We'll tell you this much - it's not going to happen within business departments.

Aboard the International Space Station: this image is a Close-up view of hardware for a chemistry experiment and was taken in the Rassvet Mini-Research Module....

"You have to push the boundaries of what is legal and possible, but please don't end up in jail" - Insights into the investment philosophy of Greylock Partner Simon Rothman

If you're a console gamer, you're probably all too aware of Lizard Squad, the hacker outlet that allegedly knocked both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline for a good chunk of the Christmas break. But just why ...

Chill the beverages of your choice in a unique style with this Spherical Ice Ball Maker. At first, simply use the included ice mold to prepare an ice slab from your freezer. Then place it on this maker which will then co...

A blog post from a Sony exec finally admitted "high levels of traffic designed to disrupt connectivity" was behind the three-day outage.

Pint-sized computers have been around for years, but they've a reputation for poor performance and connectivity. Is this deserved, or have modern processors made tiny Windows rigs relevant? The post Do bite-sized Windows...

2014 proved that every utterance of a company constitutes an ad. But which were the most memorably positive and which simply hurt?

Yet another new restaurant with robot servers has opened in China. And the owners seem determined to test Disney's patience with intellectual property laws. Why? The name of the restaurant is apparently Wall.e -- just li...