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Parents of billionaire Dropbox CEO Drew Houston upload memories of his youth.

Android Studio 1.5 rolled out recently and Reto Meier told developers what they should expect from the release. A number of bug fixes, new features and memory improvements stack up to make Android coding better than befo...

While pollution is still a problem plaguing Earth's oceans, nature sometimes finds a way of prevailing over human influence. Reddit user tellamgood posted a picture to Imgur of a lightbulb that washed up on the beach in ...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research finds that blood taken from children up to the age of five contains molecular evidence about w...

Even though it's only been available for a little under two weeks, the Samsung Gear VR virtual reality headset is already sold out on both Amazon's and BestBuy's websites And as if that weren't enough to make you want th...

Quantum entanglement, where two particles are inextricably linked, is a real thing. However, creating that odd behavior has been extremely difficult so far -- you have to cool things down to near absolute zero to pull it...

An international report on the Ebola epidemic comes out just two days after the virus reappeared in Liberia. The post We Blew It With Ebola. Scientists Don’t Want That to Happen Again appeared first on WIRED.

There are sports cars and then there are track cars. Sometimes the two meet and you end up with a sports car that is designed specifically to get things done at the race track and then cruise back home smug in your track...

Shazam is doubling down on what it does best with its latest update: Recognizing songs when your memory (or pop cultural knowhow) fails you. And, for the first time, the app now highlights a search feature on its main pa...

The Monroe Institute has been going since the 70s and claims its Hemi-Sync program can lead to "discovery of self through technology."

During the ongoing anti-terror lockdown in Brussels, police have been asking for 'radio silence' from the press and social media, to help their operations. Twitter users in the city haven't stopped tweeting: they're just...

Rampant spying by governments, spates of large scale hackings, and a general atmosphere of vulnerability over the Internet and mobile networks has made many look at heavily encrypted services and devices just to feel saf...

The reasons behind happiness have been long a subject of interest among psychologists. But a research team from Kyoto University sheds light on how people become happy from a neurological standpoint.

The ocean is full of so-called dead zones -- that is, areas where low oxygen levels resulted in a lack of marine life. A new study from the National Science Foundation points toward "abrupt ocean warming" and the formati...

'A million times' is a kinetic sculpture that uses hundreds of small wall clocks to create a 'meta-clock' with a digital-like display.

Over the past couple of years, we've asked every major maker of virtual reality headsets and content what their stance is on children in the VR realm. The answer is (almost) always the same: no comment. Off the record, w...

 The future of wearables could be inked on your skin. Chaotic Moon, a software design and development firm based in Austin, Texas, is developing a high-tech tattoo made of components and conductive paint to create circu...

New York portrait photographer Peter Hurley is back again with yet another pro portrait trick he uses for shooting better headshots of people. This one is called “Hold Your Sub,” and it lets you shave 10 pounds off y...

A mischievous face with a big smile shines light-years away from Earth A new photo taken by a NASA space telescope called Chandra shows a group of galaxies nicknamed the "Cheshire Cat" looking oddly like a cosmic smiling...

The idea of customizable add-on buttons for smartphones isn't exactly new. First we had Pressy (which was quickly cloned by Xiaomi and others), then the Dimple NFC button pad came along. So what's next? Well, a Hong Kong...

Welcome to Jordan - Google's opened up the floodgates for virtual reality using "Street View" cameras and Google Cardboard. Without having to travel thousands of miles in a plane, you'll now be able to open up your web b...

Earlier this year, the Clean Power Plan pledged to cut US power plant carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2050. A new study says the US can do way better than that: reducing all greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent and r...