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The most annoying thing about PDFs, hands down, is that you can't edit them. Thankfully, there's an easy remedy: convert a PDF doc into Microsoft Word's standard .DOC or .DOCX formats! Check out this quick tutorial to le...

Dr. Evil, eat your heart out: Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated a laser that disabled a small truck's engine from more than a mile away. The prototype fiber laser used in the field test through the engine of a small ...

Whenever and wherever a volcano erupts, you'll very likely find photographer Fred Kamphues standing nearby. Find out why this Dutch photographer is attracted to some of nature's fiercest phenomenons. The post To photogra...

Satellite imagery at 30-centimeter resolution provides the clearest, most detailed view of the ground from space. See sample imagery to find out for yourself. The post A Detailed View of the Ground with 30-centimeter Sat...

All systems are go for the inaugural ground test firing on March 11 of the world's most powerful solid rocket booster ever built that will one day power NASA's mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy lift rocket and ...

Silent Circle's warrant canary, designed to alert users when a secret gag order has been received, is "working properly," according to its general counsel.

It's not every day we get to see a supernova, but a single exploding star split into four images is an absolute first.

Windows laptops are cool again. After a boring year for both desktops and ultrabooks, the PC story's different this year PC manufacturers are actually making a concerted effort to sell laptops with premium designs at rea...

Google honored International Women's Day with a doodle of women in various professions, including a female judge, firefighter and rockstar Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the achievements of women everywhere. Happy In...

Now that Google+ is splitting up into individual services, where will you go to back up your phone's picture library? To Google Drive, apparently. Android Police has discovered that the latest version of the cloud storag...

If you've noticed more iPhones and Macbooks popping up in recent movies, you're not imagining it -- Apple has pipped Sony and Coca-Cola to the top spot in product placement rankings. The post Apple tops the product place...

"Nature is being coy," said Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, an associate professor of physics at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research who works on one of the three new experiments. "There's something ...

Everyone with an iPhone or iPad has to put up with the mild annoyance of entering their password when downloading apps or content from iTunes. But for teachers and IT administrators at schools, the situation is far worse...

Worried about how much battery life you're going to get out of your shiny new Apple wearable? This innovative accessory might have the answer, once it becomes a fully realized product. The post Could this strap solve the...

Dubai's newly announced "Museum of the Future" is doing its best to live up to the name.

iPhones, like computers, need to be rebooted on occasion. Maybe iMessage is acting up, for example. If your Home and Power button don't work , though, you can still reboot your Phone by changing certain settings.

It only took two days for Woolet, the intelligent wallet that uses Bluetooth low energy technology to prevent itself from ever being stolen, to achieve its $15,000 financing goal on Kickstarter. And now it's broken six f...

With CERN's Large Hadron Collider about to reopen after a two-year upgrade, a failure to uncover more big science would be a huge roadblock to progress

After a 40-year fight, the plan to build huge dams to tap the Amazon's power is running out of juice, mired in corrupution and scientific uncertainty (full text available to subscribers)

The ethics of robot cars has been a hot topic recently. In particular, if a robot car encounters a situation where it is forced to hit one person or another--which should it...

The acoustics behind the “popping” sounds of no-frost fridges --

Lithium-ion batteries are common in consumer electronics. They are one of the most popular types of rechargeable batteries for portable electronics, with a high energy density, no memory effect and only a slow loss of ch...