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Between competing government space agencies, commercial enterprises, humans, and robots, we have one very odd space race going on. Here's the highs and lows of exploration for 2015!

The amount of methane gas escaping from the ground during the long cold period in the Arctic each year and entering Earth's atmosphere is likely much higher than estimated by current carbon cycle models....

Don't worry, you're not living out a 13 Going on 30 scenario -- you're only "celebrating" 46 years of Facebook friendship with someone right now because of a glitch. A Unix-based glitch, that is. (That said, sorry to bur...

In the midst of holiday travel, one New York mother took the time to write a public thank you to a Southwest Airline flight attendant, who worked her magic on a nine month old baby boy. The post This viral Facebook post ...

In a policy change, the tech giant will let users of online services such as Outlook.com email know if they've become targets of government-sponsored attackers.

Instead of looking back and recapping humanity's technological achievements, we figured it'd be fun to take a look forward and examine the technologies that will have the biggest impact on 2016 The post From indoor farms...

Apple is said to replace the white antenna stripes at the back of the current iPhones with a new compound material. For those wondering, those white stripes function as antennas for the smartphones.

Tasmanian devils suffer from a transmissible cancer called devil facial tumor disease. Now, a team of scientists identified a second strain of DFTD, changing the way we perceive contagious cancer.

Is your Android phone slower than it used to be, or with a poorer battery life? Background-running apps may be to blame, hogging precious resources, so here's what you can do about it.

Far from science fiction, the ability to seemingly control things with your hands is no longer the fantasy that stories like Star Wars once imagined, thanks to a research team in Taiwan that has created technology akin t...

Adults and Teens play a fair amount of video games.

The Facebook subsidiary says it's still perfecting its unusually shaped Oculus Touch controller, designed to let people interact naturally with virtual environments.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to modify the behavior of carpenter ants using epigenetics--the science of how a gene gets turned into a physical body part or a character trait. They report...

A technology startup company in Los Angeles aims at resolving customer complaints by negotiating a settlement with the company, the Financial Times reported Friday. Service has raised just under $4 million in seed fundin...

Does a $20 surge protector guard your gear as well as an $80 surge protector? There are plenty of arguments on both sides of the fence, but many people's main concern when buying a power strip is to increase the number o...

From the 1910s up until the present day, each decade has opened up the Universe in a way never before imagined.

Technically Incorrect: In the end, it came down to sound logic for the warfighters. These were not the dogs of war you're looking for.

BluRay 4K discs and big push from satellite expected          

 I’ve been thinking about some of the cool things happening in the world and I wanted to note a few important trends I’m seeing. From Money to Hoverboards, things are changing quickly.

Finding 4K programming to watch on your new 4K TV should be easier in 2016, reports Jefferson Graham on #TalkingTech.          

Adam Bosworth, a tech pioneer, sees the future in servers that manage and learn from data gathered by sensors implanted in practically everything.

You've probably heard of wearable cameras from companies like Narrative, which clip onto your clothing and log images of your daily life. The upcoming MyMe from Orcam takes that idea to a whole new, and potentially even ...