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When the Fitbit Surge was unveiled late last year, the popular fitness tracking company wanted everyone to know that it was not a smartwatch. In fact, Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park said at the time that smartwatch...

rossgneumann writes: A group of physicists has successfully manipulated beams of laser light into an optical mobius strip (abstract). The shape, a classic mindbender all but nonexistent in nature, has never before been s...

In the last 10 days, China has been tightening its grip on the Internet, blocking several tools that allow users inside the country to escape and circumvent what's popularly known as the "Great Firewall of China." Some p...

After a month of teasing its return, The Pirate Bay team on Saturday finally brought back online the immensely popular torrent download service, almost a day before the planned February 1st relaunch, and users can now en...

Bothered by programs that start when you boot your computer, or want to add some that don't? Here's how to change your startup items on a PC or Mac. The post Is your system booting slowly? Here’s how to flush out clogg...

The U.S. Army is open-sourcing a code it uses to analyze cyberattacks. For the past five years, whenever a Department of Defense network has been compromised, the Army has used the Dshell framework to do forensic analysi...

MarkWhittington (1084047) writes "Officially, NASA has been charged with sending astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030s. Toward that end, according to a story in Universe Today, space agency engineers at the Marshall S...

It's not just the wire-cam. More nuanced stylistic elements have crept into TV broadcasts too.

The 1,000-year-old child mummy is part of a Cincinnati Museum Center exhibition.          

Power for your pockets External battery packs are something most smartphone users take for granted. They're not glamorous accessories like cases or headphones or car mounts, but they're important. When you're running out...

Video game ads will be few and far between during this year’s Super Bowl, unfortunately. While we’ll see a host of new trailers for movies and surely a bunch for new NBC shows, the few video game ads we will see are...

Money advice is easy to find, but good money advice--advice you can use and take to heart--is trickier. Sure, budgeting and managing money seems easy, but if it were, everyone would have it down pat. This week, we're loo...

Russia on Sunday carried out its first space launch of the year, using its commercial Proton rocket to send a British satellite into orbit.

Watching hundreds of genetically different hearts beating in a supercomputer is helping doctors identify who is at risk from unexpectedly dropping down dead

Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet. But its signature color is only skin-deep - or, I should say, dust-deep. Beneath its rusty regolith Mars has many other hues and shades as well, from pale greys like those fou...

International Space Station Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts take a break from scientific research to watch Super Bowl XLIX from their sky box and orbiting laboratory 260 miles above Earth,...

During a Jan. 26 media briefing at the Johnson Space Center, Administrator Charlie Bolden, other NASA officials and representatives from Boeing and SpaceX discussed key development activities, test plans and objectives f...

By now, you may know the advantages of LED lighting. They last much longer, consume less power, come in a variety of colors, and can even be controlled and programmed from...

Lightning illuminates the area it strikes on Earth but the flash can be seen from space, too....

The color scale in this image from the Planck mission represents the emission from dust, a minor but crucial component that pervades our Milky Way galaxy....

Successful launch provides on-orbit insurance for radar portion of four-satellite constellation. The post Japan Launches Spare IGS Radar Recon Satellite on H-2A appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

The IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, installed on its payload adapter, is being prepared for launch, at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January 2015....