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BioShock 2 and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified developer Zak McClendon has joined up with Double Fine as the lead designer of the company's upcoming crowdfunded platformer Psychonauts 2. The post Psychonauts 2 dev team lan...

Apple fans rallied behind their privacy savior in over 50 cities across the US today to protest the FBI’s demands that Apple unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone and compromise the security of millions of users...

Ah, Mars. The Red Planet has been a subject of fascination for many over the years, where there were even plans to nuke it, while various rockets by NASA has been worked on in an effort to send mankind there – with som...

If you aren't convinced the pace of robotics is accelerating, you need only check out the new video from robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics. The group's latest humanoid robot tramps through the snow, stacks boxes, and even...

We've achieved amazing things by using chemical rockets to place satellites in orbit, land people on the moon, and place rovers on the surface of Mars. We've even used ion drives to reach destinations further afield in o...

Sugar may help detect how malignant a tumor is. A new study found that the more a tumor consumes sugar, the more malignant it is.

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The distributed denial-of-service attack, better know as a DDoS, is one of the more basic but effective ways of shutting down a website you might want to torment. Often, hackers use them to silence sites who hold viewpoi...

Alan Siegel, chief of MIT Medical's Mental Health and Counseling Service, will retire from his position after nearly 15 years.

Unless your name is Timothy Donald Cook, or you could get away with calling him T.C. to his face, chances are you don’t know exactly what Apple’s got planned for its next-gen iPhone 7. Apple probably doesn’t have t...

It’s much easier to dictate something than to type it out yourself but not all of us have secretaries at our beck and call to type up our stuff for us. If you’re not in the mood to type you can use the voice typing f...

If you were a young male in the '90s, you probably spent at least one afternoon playing Mortal Kombat, the classic fighting game that was hugely controversial in its time due to the comically bloody finishing moves you w...

Quantum physicist Mario Krenn and his colleagues in the group of Anton Zeilinger from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have developed an algorithm which designs new ...

The Impact Powersync 16-80 transceivers can offer the right photographer lots of versatility. See why in the review. This post original written on Review: Impact Powersync 16-80 Radio Flash Transceivers [show_ip]

Good news for those who want to react to bad news on Facebook: the "like" is no longer your only option. Facebook began rolling out Reactions to users worldwide on Wednesday. The new feature will be available on desktop ...

Watching the hands of the clock tick by won't do you any good, as a new study revealed that people who are impatient are more likely to age prematurely. Researchers found a link between impatience and the tips of DNA cal...

Bill Gates is one of those people for whom "needs no introduction" is actually true.

Develop your beginning, middle, and end in one fell swoop with the Freewrite, the world's first smart typewriter. Enjoy writing distraction free with only what is necessary to write in today's modern world: a keyboard, a...

Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, returns to London. Authorities say she is stable but returned for late complications due to Ebola.

Sony recently announced that it will showcase the PlayStation VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in March. Sony's VR gadget can take a bite out of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift's market share, but there are some cav...

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Japanese scientists have discovered how a fruitless gene mutation can alter sexual behavior in male fruit flies raised in groups. Those with the mutated gene tend to pursue other male fruit flies without direct stimulati...