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What makes a good data scientist? And if you are a good data scientist, how much should you expect to get paid?

The YouTube community has lost one of its own. Caleb Logan, one of the stars of the popular YouTube family-vlogging channel Bratayley, has died. The family and the channel's media company, Maker Studios, has confirmed th...

 To process a transaction, you need first to make sure the sender owns the asset he wants to transfer, and make sure he will not trade it twice. In the blockchain, information is stored in blocks that record all transac...

Edward Snowden created quite a stir in the Twitter world. Nobody could tell how many of his followers are fans and how many are NSA agents, but the number of messages he received in two days of tweeting are promising.

For $12 worth of domain shopping, ex-Googler Sanmay Ved enjoyed Internet fame after becoming known as the man who owned Google.com for one minute. Ved recalled the whole process in a LinkedIn post and revealed what it fe...

The classic shooter 'Doom' is now playable on the Apple Watch and Apple TV. The 'Doom' hackers show us how to play the game on the Apple devices, no matter how difficult it may seem.

The LG V10, the newly unveiled dual-screen smartphone from the South Korean manufacturer, has already been put to its very first drop test. Here is how the new device fared.

'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' continues to treat video games, gamers, and developers with respect and even awe.

Last week, a new effort called #CONNECTTHEWORLD was announced in full page ads in all the major newspapers. Founded by the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation, Facebook, and many others, CONNECTTHEWORLD said: "The Internet ...

After Google introduced the first Chromecast two years ago, HDMI dongles quickly became one of the best cheap ways to stream the internet to your TV. Now, the competition is hotter than ever. We compared the Roku stick, ...

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. After three years of anticipation Tesla just launched its latest electric car....

Framing the battle over credit for CRISPR as Berkeley v. MIT is wrong. The post The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong appeared first on WIRED.

US tech giants are turning to the news in their competition for mobile users, developing new, faster ways to deliver content, but the benefits for struggling media outlets remain unclear.

The real-time foot traffic heat map allows you to see the density of the people in an area in China, ranging from sparse (green) to dense (red).

A team of researchers from the RMIT-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Research Centre has developed a technique to create 10-micron-wide flower-like structures that bloom like the real thing. The group mixed two in...

Brunswick Park is a line of performance apparel for the weekday warrior those among us for whom work and play blend together, who get up early and stay out late, who refuse to settle. If this sounds like you, and you wan...

Complete, restful sleep may boost both psychological and immune system memories, according to latest research. Beware of the danger of sleep deprivation, particularly in the body's ability to ward off infections.

Google Glass (aka Project Aura), as cool as it is, isn't very immersive: you're still looking at flat pictures superimposed on a 3D world. You may see some added depth in the future, though. Google has filed for a patent...

Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey said the Facebook's virtual reality headset will cost over $350. The first handset has already rolled off of the production line.

The Australian Football League (AFL) grand final is one of the biggest events on Australia's sporting calendar, so organisers and sponsors were definitely not going to let spectators go home un-entertained on Saturday, w...

Japanese companies looking to reach foreign visitors could soon get some help from robots. Kinki Nippon Tourist is partnering with Japanese technology firm FueTrek to make robot translators a reality. Beginning early nex...

This season's sci-fi movie hit centered around saving the life of a scientist stranded on Mars now has an accompanying Apple Watch game The Martian: Bring Him Home puts you in the role of a NASA worker who has the only c...