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It seems all people need to download music streaming service Tidal is a little push from Kanye West.

Sending emails is as easy as pie. However, until now a lot of know-how has been required to securely encrypt them. This is bound to change: Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology ...

Thanks to scum-of-the-internet 4chan, we've all been hearing lately about a particular iOS bug that will brick modern iPhones, if you set the date back to 1/1/1970. Why does that happen? YouTuber Tom Scott explains.

Singapore has an increasing need for public housing and is turning to 3D printing as a possible solution to the country's problem. With $107.7 million in government and industry funding, the Singapore Centre for 3D Print...

Fans can use the plastic bricks to recreate moments from the original Star Wars trilogy, "The Force Awakens," "Star Wars: Rebels" and the upcoming "Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures" series.

We're still a few years away from the average person embracing a fully-connected smart home, but Barbie is an early adopter. Mattel unveiled at the 2016 International Toy Fair in New York City The Hello Barbie Dreamhouse...

You might have read about a bug affecting iOS devices recently. It’s a rather odd one. Basically, you can render the iOS device useless if you change the day to May 1970 or earlier. There was no word from Apple on this...

The Apple Remote app for the iPhone lets users control their Apple TV on a basic level, but later this year it will become much more capable, even acting as an additional game controller for two-player games. The post Th...

Fusion power has long been considered to be the holy grail of alternative energy. Clean, abundant power, created through a self-sustaining process where atomic nuclei are fused at extremely high temperatures. Achieving t...

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have set a record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information. As part of research focusing on testing the capacity limits of optical transmission systems the tea...

Discovering Hands trains blind woman for clinical breast cancer examinations, and their tactile awareness is enhancing detection rates. The post Blind women trained for early breast cancer detection appeared first on Spr...

Emotiv has developed a range of brain monitoring headsets, which are affordable for small research teams, schools and individuals. The post Neuro-headsets for under USD 500 could help market research appeared first on Sp...

It's easy to forget how lethal our natural world can be, where an encounter with the wrong rock or mineral could lead to injury or death

Here’s a beautiful photo of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured back on October 3, 2007 by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Our planet was about 88 million miles away from the camer...

Last week, I was able to watch an early screening of "No Way Out", last night's mid-season premiere. Upon my first viewing , I was struck by a single scene that disturbed me mightily. Upon last night's viewing, I had the...

Apple has acknowledged the existence of a somewhat bizarre bug which bricks any iOS devices that has its date set back to 1970 — and confirms that a fix is on the way. “An upcoming software update will prevent this i...

Universal remotes haven't changed much since they were first introduced, but Sony is changing that with its new Huis universal remote, which uses an E-Ink display to show different controls for every device it's used wit...

The explosive spread of Zika throughout the Americas is raising questions about the best ways to control this and future epidemics. We first need to identify what factors contribute to the spread of Zika and understand w...

In the future, NASA astronauts journeying into deep space may give themselves a health check-up with the aid of a small medical device developed by a team of scientists, including one from LLNL.

In a unique invitation to develop a new satellite platform, NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) is requesting proposals from industry to provide small spacecraft for its Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator (...

Leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge hints at the color options of the smartphones. Samsung will launch the two devices on Feb. 21, a day ahead of the 2016 MWC.