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Yesterday evening, an absolutely huge collection of Snowden classified data was published on the German website Der Spiegel. Among the horribly designed slides, filled with terrible clip art and font choices (seriously g...

Apple's Health app had a quiet rollout in late 2014, and months later many iOS users still aren't sure how the platform works on their new (or newly updated) iPhone Sure, we've already seen a series of apps like Nike+ Ru...

Google Voice's transcription feature really comes in handy when when you're not in the position to listen to spoken messages. This news isn't about Google Voice, though -- it's about a similar (but experimental) transcri...

Japanese photographer Daisuke Takakura takes clone photography pretty seriously. His project “Monodramatic” features some models tens of times, with some of the clones so far away from the camera that they can barely...

Surprise! An academic advisory panel, chaired by director of national intelligence James Clapper -- yup, the same guy who lied to Congress -- has concluded that there's no alternative to bulk data collection. Sorry, citi...

Budweiser constructed a life-size Pac Man maze in Los Angeles' Fashion District recently for a Bud Light advertisement, set to air at the upcoming Super Bowl XLIX in February. The post Budweiser built a life-size Pac Man...

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is usually dead right with his predictions on upcoming Apple products. But lately, his predictions have been whoppers. First, Kuo predicted that Apple would ditch Intel chips in the Ma...

7Online: A video of a bald and burly Delaware police officer enthusiastically lip-syncing to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" is getting global attention.The video, posted to the Dover Police Department's Facebook page Frid...

Researchers say they have built a microwave laser no bigger than a grain of rice that is powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The device, called a maser, could help make a...

How confident is the National Security Agency about its ability to wage cyberwarfare? Enough so that it's bragging about it. A new round of Edward Snowden leaks published by Der Spiegel reveal that the institution has no...

While Sir Arthur C. Clarke popularized the concept of the Space Elevator, it was Jerome Pearson and Yuri Artsutanov who did the original engineering, separately, on the concept originally put forward by Konstantin Tsiolk...

Even though the ammonia leak that forced a partial evacuation of the International Space Station's U.S. section on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm, the news did raise questions on the station's durability.

It's an impossible question to answer -- unless you're Neil deGrasse Tyson. Watch the famed astrophysicist take on a young boy's loaded query, and knock it out of the park.

 The bitcoin train is really made up of two revolutions in one: Money and finance, based on the bitcoin protocol, and exploiting the “currency programmability” aspects; and decentralized applications, based on the b...

Female sea turtles, known to swim thousands of miles before returning to their birthplace to lay eggs, find their way home by relying on unique magnetic signatures along the coast, a new study finds. For more than 50 yea...

Photorapher Simon Chetrit used the Pentax 67 to help him get over shyness and take the portraits of strangers.

Lizard Squad is apparently getting a taste of its own medicine. Security guru Brian Krebs has learned that someone hacked Lizard Stresser, the cyberattack-for-hire service that Lizard Squad launched following its takedow...

A story at Ars Technica describes yet another Federal database of logged call details maintained by the Federal government which has now come to light, this one maintained by the Department of Justice rather than the NSA...

Singapore’s Jurong Port, an international shipping terminal for dry bulk and containerized cargo, is installing the largest port-based solar power system in the world.

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A week ago, in the open ocean off the Florida coast, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket nearly made history. SpaceX is attempting to recover, refurbish, and...