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FOR years, the motor industry lived by the mantra, "bigger is better". The number of litres that a car's pistons displaced within its engine's cylinders was a matter of pride for its owner. This was because displacement ...

Visitors will be able to connect to wi-fi at three famous Moscow cemeteries.

Who knew that an often ignorant cartoon 6-year-old could have so much in common with a United States presidential candidate? On Dec. 7, Redditor eucalyptusfire uploaded a Calvin and Hobbes strip, replacing Calvin's head ...

On the Apple TV app store, entertainment apps, including streaming video from the likes of HBONow and Netflix, are a clear winner, followed next by games. AppFigures, an app tracking service for publishers and developers...

The "Mona Lisa" may be hiding the real Lisa Gherardini beneath its surface, one scientist claims, but other experts in the field are skeptical.

A couple of days ago, Apple surprised everyone when they launched the Smart Battery Case. There have been plenty of battery cases designed for the iPhone over the years, but this marked the first time that Apple has deci...

5 million queries a second. That's the scope of a DDoS attack launched on the root DNS servers that make the Internet possible. Fortunately, the attack didn't work. The post Suspected botnet tried to break the Internet b...

UK researchers developed oxygen-enhanced MRI to determine oxygen deprivation sites in tumors. Better imaging is estimated to help lead to more planned and effective cancer treatments such as radiotherapy.

Twitter Inc said it was testing a feature to show advertisements to people who read tweets without logging in, as it tries to make good on its long-time ambition to monetize non-active users. The company said the feature...

Scientists found no signs of laser pulses coming from KIC 8462852, a star whose mysterious brightness dips have spawned talk of possible "megastructures" built by intelligent aliens.

The company said it would start accepting Walmart Pay, which will be integrated into its existing smartphone app, this month at stores in its home market around Bentonville, Ark.

Listen up, young children and Jason Derulo, and heed these warnings about riding hoverboards before you give yourself a concussion. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) — an industry regulator and ...

China’s cyber chief rejected criticism of the country’s Internet censorship Wednesday. The comments by Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, came ahead of next week’s state-sponsored World Interne...

Things have gotten sparse on the International Space Station due to recent failed cargo launches. A couple days ago, Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft launched with a payload destined for the ISS and, thankfully, did so wi...

Mark Zuckerberg has published a blog post urging people to not succumb to cynicism, especially in the wake of bigoted comments made by the likes of Donald Trump regarding Muslims.

Researchers watch the watchmen Some of the biggest names in the security software business have been compromised by a serious flaw that could allow a hacker to use the commercial security code to infiltrate computers....

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 24, Page 2302-2303, December 2015.

During a photoshoot for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" issue, Donald Trump reached for a bottle of aspirin when a 27-year-old bald eagle named Uncle Sam nearly attacked the presidential hopeful. Watch the very patr...

Judging from advertising and movies, being a dude is pretty simple: Have lots of sex, money and power. But is that limited conception of masculinity doing anyone any favors? Not so much.  A video published on Thursday ...

Back in 1909, a super-rich French banker named Albert Kahn decided to create a photographic record of the world using the new color photography process that had just appeared, the Autochrome Lumière. He commissioned 4 p...

It's been more than a month since tvOS and the tvOS App Store launched alongside the new fourth-generation Apple TV, marking a good time to take a look at the state of the tvOS App Store. AppFigures today published some ...

While most Mac laptop users will rely on the battery percentage indicator found in the menu bar of OS X, those who spend a lot of time at the command line may find it useful to know that MacBook battery life and battery ...