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Microsoft's Continuum technology for Windows 10 makes it possible for a Windows phone to serve as your computer. A new Indiegogo campaign for a product called the NexDock builds on this vision, promising to extend the pr...

Do not set the date on any iPhone or iPad to any time between Jan. 1, 1970 and May 1970. Doing so will brick the phone, and though Apple says there is a coming patch to the bug, it's not yet known when that fix will arri...

It might be one of our best theories on consciousness, but it would take a supercomputer billions of years to verify it. Now there could be a much speedier solution

Apple isn't giving in to FBI orders to create a backdoor to an iPhone that was used in the San Bernardino attacks last December. In an open letter, Tim Cook reaches out to Apple's customers to let them know what's going ...

Sleeping too well lately? Looking for that "something something" to turn those boring restful nights into a horrorscape? Turns out, zooming in too far on Google Maps' user-uploaded 3D Spheres produces some impressively f...

Doodling on a Snapchat is fun; it lets you customize just about any snap with the power of your own artistry, or lack thereof. If you’ve noticed, though, when you choose the color for said doodle, there’s no white or...

ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images America is getting crushed by China. Not in trade or weapons or any of those things that don't matter. We're losing the war of the Roseys . Don't believe me? Take a look at the new robot a...

Geomagnetic storms have lots of effects. Is mass murder one of them?

Image credit – AFP There are instances during brain surgery in which a patient has to remain awake. This is known as intraoperative brain mapping and is usually done when tumors are removed that are too close to areas ...

A new report suggests that the government is receiving far less data than privacy advocates have long suspected.

The last couple years have seen breaches of unprecedented scale -- but the cyber-war of 2016 will take place on smartphones, suggests a new report.

Sometimes, overcoming your hurdles just takes a bit of confidence — and perhaps a pickup truck. A video on Time Warner Cable News' website shows Chris Johnson, a welder from Byron, New York, using his Ford Super Duty t...

Feeling Locky, punk? Well, do ya? Greedy miscreants have created a new strain of ransomware, dubbed Locky....

Scientists recently described eight new species of a long-legged spider native to Brazil, nearly doubling the number of known species in the genus.

Can gene warfare defeat the Zika virus?

A neural network that has solved a notoriously tricky riddle could allow groups of robots to collaborate on real-world problems

You're an electromagnetic menace, here's an eviction notice China will "evacuate" 9,110 residents living within a five-kilometre radius of its new "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope" (FAST), in order to cre...

Google recently replied to Sen. Al Franken's concerns regarding the collection and usage of students' personal data. The company explains that it uses the information for non-profit purposes, but suggests it might have n...

In the wake of legislation established to promote Net neutrality, it looks likely that data collection will form the basis of the next encounter between the FCC and Internet service providers. The post FCC and ISPs engag...

The rearrangement of particles in materials during deformation, such as when a spoon is bent, doesn't occur independently, but rather resembles highly collective avalanches that span the entire material. This is the conc...

What if there was a technology that could accelerate particles with hundreds of times more power than current methods? The AWAKE experiment, under construction at CERN, is preparing to test this question with proton-driv...

US peppered Iran with thousands of cyberwar weapons The super worm known as Stuxnet was but a cog in an active US war program in which hundreds of thousands of network implants and backdoors in Iran networks were activel...