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I've never really lived in a neighborhood that drew a lot of Trick-or-Treaters, but that doesn't keep me from buying Halloween candy. Obviously, this is a task I take very seriously because, even if zero children visit m...

The world first met Intel’s tiny Curie platform when it was a button on a sports jacket, but the reality of the tiny connected computer brain will, at least initially, be far more pedestrian and perhaps more tangible f...

You’ll never be without an Internet connection in U.K. towns and cities in the future, thanks to Wi-Fi emitting sidewalks. Chesham in Buckinghamshire has become the first town to deliver Wi-Fi at speeds of up to 166 Mb...

Hundreds of cars were stranded when a mudslide swamped a Southern California freeway last night in what felt like a chilling dress rehearsal for the El Niño on the way. The mudslide is a reminder that it's not just heav...

One of the great early civilizations collapsed in a mere fifty years, with 75% of the population disappearing a century later. What the hell happened to ancient Greece?

When will fully Autonomous Driving become a reality? That's the trillion dollar question. It may come down to which company is willing to offer it first, but there are some very clear hurdles to that.

The ruling is a victory for the ride-hailing service, which has faced significant opposition from London's established cab trade, but taxi drivers already are challenging the decision.

Say you found a funny photo on the internet and you download it to your computer and share it on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. That's pretty much what a lot of people do these days, but apparently it is not something...

You might not know this about me, but I'm a tabletop and RPG nerd in addition to being a Mac geek. And I love dice. If you've listened to Apple Context Machine long enough you've heard me use RPG dice for choosing winner...

 Your party enters a darkened room. Candles flicker in the gloom and something is glinting along the far wall. Your thief enters first. Her dwarvish blade begins to glow. Danger is nearby! What will you do? Will you 3D ...

Dystopian visions of the future always portray scenarios where humans have destroyed Earth and turned it into a desolated and almost uninhabitable place. But our planet probably doesn't really care. It will just wait us ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a remarkable new robot that bears a startling resemblance to the Droideka of Star Wars. Called QRoSS, this throwable, sphere-shaped robot can move around either by rolling or walking o...

Whether you like it or not, here might be coming your computer's update to Windows 10. A recent update to genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computers has apparently included a checked box intended to be opt-in for an aut...

Following spacecraft Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on October 14th, NASA has released the first photos of the satellite's north pole region. While more photos are still being transmitted to Earth over the ne...

According to an email that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sent to Tech Insider, one major emotional scene between himself and Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's "Steve Jobs" biopic "was made up for the movie." Which is normal...

One of the ways that hackers and nefarious sorts trick people into putting strange USB drives into their computers is by simply leaving them lying around. Curious folks plug the drives into their USB ports out of curiosi...

In case you don't already know, Google has a cheap virtual reality solution in the form of Google Cardboard, which as the name implies is basically a headset designed for virtual reality that could be made literally from...

The Fire TV is Amazon's fastest selling product of all time, both in its original set-top-box and streaming stick forms. It has beaten Kindle and Fire tablets, oh, and the phone of course, although that one has since bee...

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(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)) More than 20 percent of people affected by Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a rare disease, develop various types of tumors throughout their lives.CNIO researchers have cre...

Google is working on an update for the Play Store, giving it a major overhaul. Googler Kirill Grouchnikov posts screenshots and animations that show off the new face of the Play Store.

Experts have developed a blood test that can help identify the risk of testicular cancer relapse. Through the approach, low-risk patients may be spared from having to undergo chemotherapy and suffer possible side effects...