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If you watch the evening news, you may have noticed that cities are often warmer than the surrounding rural or suburban landscapes. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than rural environments ...

Uber is launching yet another new product, but this one targets a specific group of people: event organizers, especially those tired of fielding calls from guests who can't make it due to car troubles. The service called...

Discovering life on another planet, only to contaminate that world with our own pesky microbes, is one of NASA's nightmare scenarios. To find out whether single-celled Earthlings can hitchhike to Mars and survive on the ...

Ivee looks to take on Alexa.          

Apple has used stronger 7000 Series aluminum in its latest iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus to address bending issues. A video demonstration suggests that the new iPhones do not bend under moderate pressure.

The issue of climate change is now on the front lines of international politics. You might even say 2015 was the year that climate moved from a political and economic issue to one grounded in morals and ethics, with Pope...

Earth's shadow on the moon causes a massive change in temperature on its surface. NASA research scientist Jennifer Heldmann tells Space.com's @CallaCofield about how they intend on gathering data on the Moon during the S...

So far from what we can tell, Apple's new iPhones have proven to be a hit again. The company has managed to sell out their stock of pre-order units, as well as launch day units via their online store. That being said, st...

Pictures of the Soviet Space Shuttle in its hanger have been making the rounds on the internet recently, but there's another shuttle out there. Russian photographer Aleksander Markin came across the remains of the origin...

Google's Nexus phones haven't had the best cross-carrier support in the US (ahem, Verizon), but that might change when the Nexus 5X and 6P roll into town. The Nexus 5X has just swung by the FCC for approval, and one fili...

The patent trolls strike again! Minero Digital LLC, a shell company with ties to the patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures, is taking Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and two dozen other companies to court over USB hubs. Minero ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently did an interview in Denmark where he talked about all sorts of topics. Naturally, he spoke about where he see the future of the EV market going. The big problem that EV buyers have today are ...

Next weekend, theater-goers will watch astronaut Mark Watney battle to survive on the red planet in The Martian. Meanwhile, the Mars One initiative whittles down a list of Earth dwellers to journey to the very same plane...

Murray Hill has a quality of life problem. After growing worried about the neighborhood’s homeless population, residents started a Facebook group to share photos and report incidents they thought might affect public sa...

More customers are upgrading to the latest Apple smartphone every year, creating a bigger market for the previous year's models.

Fans of Apple's smaller iPad Mini caught a tough break last fall when the company unveiled its new tablets for the year. Although Tim Cook & co. lavished plenty of attention on the faster, slimmed-down iPad Air 2, the up...

Earlier this month, New Horizons released a batch of absolutely breathtaking photos of Pluto at dusk, including the one above. In these images, particles in Pluto's thin atmosphere are causing sunlight to scatter, reveal...

While the EPA is promising to toughen up emissions tests in the aftermath of the Volkswagen cheating scandal, Tesla founder Elon Musk has a slightly different take: Gas is dead and it's time to go electric, people.

This article originally appeared on Fast Company and is reprinted with permission. By Greg Lindsay I almost didn't notice I was wearing it, at first. The plastic box strung around my neck was roughly the size and weight ...

This might be the ultimate schadenfreude of VW's diesel cheatery -- the US government paid $20.7 million to help Americans get behind the wheel of these NOx-barfing Volkswagens during the Cash for Clunkers program.

The Moon is shrinking, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Today we review the second generation Moto 360 for the year 2015. This is a follow-up to a winning design from Motorola for the year 2014, they being the first creators of a "round" watch for the Android Wear platform. T...