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Here's an interesting idea for thinking differently about AppleCare for your iPhone. It turns out that several banks have a credit card feature called Cellular Telephone Protection that will cover you in the event of a d...

Photographer Jeffrey Berkes captured this stunning moment as the moon entered full eclipse right when Old Faithful erupted at Yellowstone National Park.

(Reuters) - Hyatt Hotels Corp said on Wednesday that its payment processing system was infected with credit-card-stealing malware in an attack discovered three weeks ago, the latest in a series of breaches at hospitality...

It's a happy holiday season indeed for Clarksville, Tennessee officials. Google vice president for Data Center Operations Joe Kava has confirmed to The Leaf-Chronicle that the company is turning the old 1,300-acre Hemloc...

An alleged hacker has been charged with stealing television scripts, celebrity social security numbers, explicit personal videos, and more through the use of phishing techniques and malware. None of the victims have been...

The National Security Archive has published what is said to be the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear weapons targets and applied weapons strategy that has ever been declassified. The report includes details...

Facebook launched free mobile Internet earlier this year in February through Internet.org, but it seems that India's regulators are rather cautious about the entire exercise. It has been reliably reported that the Teleco...

This is super cool! It's a video showing the evolution of crap we've put up in orbit around the planet, or 58 years of debris in 60 seconds (via @SteveSheridan). It really helps put our planet in perspective! Note the ye...

NASA is calling off its next mission to Mars because there isn't enough time to fix a leaky seal on a key science instrument.

This is pretty amazing: An actual movie taken by a camera on board the New Horizons spacecraft as it passed by Pluto in July! But it's not your ordinary movie... it's actually taking a spectrum of Pluto, mapping out mine...

Google updated its Google Play Services SDK with the latest 8.4 version. This build will allow developers to better understand their users, enhance the functionality and features of the software and generate more sales.

How fat is used can influence longevity, researchers have found, after analyzing corresponding proteins in worms and mice. This shows, once again, that fat truly does affect health.

Investor cash minted a new $1 billion startup every four days this fall. Analysts say that's "bonkers."

Commentary: Heavy-handed attempts at government control will surely backfire, hobbling today's dynamic, unfettered communication and commerce far more than they hinder evil acts.

Here's a clever technological breakthrough that could help the environment in two ways. MIT announced this week that some of its researchers have figured out a way to make solar cells using parts from discarded car batte...

A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus, or stiffness-to-wei...

Fungus killing tree critical to Hawaii's native forests, endangered birds, culture

Who hasn't heard of Kim Dotcom before? The man who has made his millions in the Information Technology era has always been making waves in news headlines, having claimed to save Christmas last year, at the same time roll...

If you're clever enough, anything can be a tool. This year we saw a ton of clever tips and tricks than any "MacGyver wannabe" would be proud of, but only a select few stood out as the best.

Developer Steven Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) of High Caffeine Content posted a proof-of-concept video of an iOS window manager to Twitter Wednesday. I'm not at all certain I want a window manager in iOS, but lots ...

A WhatsApp bug has been discovered that affects the web and Android mobile versions of the popular messaging service. The flaw can be exploited via a WhatsApp message containing thousands of emojis that causes it to cras...

Thanks to technology and word processors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs, the need to actually write out essays and articles with a pen and paper is no longer as prevalent as it once was. Let's not forget the use of ...