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Acer has launched its first fitness tracker in the United States, its Liquid Leap+ wearable. The tracker features interchangeable bands and is compatible with the three big mobile platforms: Android, iOS, and Windows Pho...

France isn't the only European country grappling with suspicious drone flights, it seems. Reportedly, guards at the Spanish royal family's La Zarzuela palace have spotted numerous robotic aircraft flying through its airs...

ICELAND. An Uneasy Calm is a new hardback coffee table book featuring 98 toned black-and-white photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by landscape photographer Tim Rudman.

(Phys.org)--Materials scientists study biology at nanoscale in order to incorporate mechanical solutions to problems that have already been resolved by evolution. This biomimicry is evident in much recent technology, inc...

If the inundation of photos on your Facebook feed and the cringeworthy matching dresses weren't annoying enough, there's another hazard for bridesmaids everywhere: groomsmen who don't look behind them before they bust a ...

We've been promised the Holodeck ever since we saw it in Star Trek in the late 1980s. Image from Star Trek The Next Generation The first use of a "holodeck" by that name in the Star Trek universe was in the pilot episode...

If you've spent any amount of time on the internet, it probably wasn't surprising when its denizens took Google's fancy new DeepDream image recognition tool and used it to create psychedelic porn for robots. But apparent...

Avid Life, the company behind the dating website, Ashley Madison, that was hacked yesterday, has claimed that it has managed to get all published versions of its members list pulled from the internet. Ashley Madison is a...

In the future, it seems that it might be possible for those suffering from depression, pain, epilepsy, or other neurological problems to have their medication delivered directly to their brain via remote control. This is...

Joined by an all-star cast of scientists that included Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, Frank Drake, Geoff Marcy and Ann Druyan, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced that he was personally funding a series of new initi...

Scientists say the Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last year may have shifted its position, making it harder to communicate with the probe.

Blasting tiny, waferlike sailing spacecraft with powerful lasers could slash interstellar flight times from thousands of years to mere decades, one researcher says.

Uber and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, now at war, gave up their chance at peace last week For two hours last Monday, representatives from Uber and Mayor Bill de Blasio's office met for a conversation about City Ha...

An alarming 22 percent of U.S. children live in poverty, which can have long-lasting negative consequences on brain development, emotional health and academic achievement. Now, even more compelling evidence has been prov...

While searching for a mooring from a previous trip, researchers off the coast of North Carolina discovered a well-preserved shipwreck and artifacts that may date to the American Revolution.

Spotify is rising to the challenge of Apple Music's human-curated playlists, promising the sort of individualized mixtape that only a computer could deliver. Dubbed Discover Weekly, Spotify's new service looks at each us...

(Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc shares jumped as much as 11 percent in their highly anticipated return to the Nasdaq on Monday, valuing the company at about $52 billion.

A University of Exeter scientist is set to send thousands of microscopic worms on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in an experiment aimed at increasing our understanding of what triggers the body to bui...

Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars --

If you want everything Apple's iPhone can do except the "phone" part, the $400 cheaper 6th-gen iPod Touch is for you. It even has the iPhone 6's A8 chip, albeit running a tad slower. The iFixit team has taken the 4-inch ...

Valve's been showing a demo of a virtual reality Portal game behind closed doors for a few months. Now, finally, you can see the whole thing.

Ridesharing outfits make some effort to accommodate disabled passengers, but Massachusetts isn't sure that they go far enough. Reuters has learned that the state's Attorney General is grilling Uber and Lyft over the leve...