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If Apple hasn’t yet made the Ethernet network port on your Mac obsolete by not including it, as is the case with most Macs sold today, then it may have accidentally broke the port last week in an OS X kernel extension ...

When it comes to living out the wireless lifestyle, you can more or less say that Bluetooth connectivity happens to be important as well, not quite to the standard of Wi-Fi connectivity, but still, Bluetooth connectivity...

The ultimate stealth computer includes a floppy disk drive that reads SD cards.

Snapchat's new Face Swap feature is now making waves on social media. Users experiment by swapping faces not only with their friends but also with their pets.

You thought the floppy disk was long dead. You thought that, in today's cloud-centric age--a time in which even miulti-gigabyte flash drives are ridiculously inexpensive--that the humble 3.5-inch plastic-encased disk wou...

Earlier this month, the White House's Office of Science and Technology assembled a strange gathering: scientists, artists, engineers, and policy-makers, for a workshop designed to imagine how humanity could settle the so...

Apple's much-rumored 4-inch iPhone has been a hot topic lately, what with the expected March announcement drawing close, with some of the latest news being a name change to "iPhone SE." But now we have images of the firs...

As soon as he returns from the International Space Station, NASA's first and only yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, will try to pop up from a lying position and stand still for three minutes.

Volvo's ROAR (RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling) project has moved into prototype testing, the company announced earlier this week. The ROAR system is designed to autonomously empty trash cans from the back of a gar...

Zuckerberg has a 48 percent favorability rating among registered voters.

Last week Apple released a minor patch for OS X in the form of a kernel extension update. Labeled "031-51913 Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data 3.28.1," the update turned out to be bugged, leaving many Mac ...

All the hype surrounding Apple's rumored March event might soon boil to a head. Sources for both Recode and Buzzfeed understand that Apple will hold its shindig on or shortly after March 21st -- later than the previously...

Putting files in the recycle bin doesn't erase them, it just makes them harder to find. Here's how to totally, utterly obliterate files from a hard drive before you give it away or trash it. The post How to totally, utte...

NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees....

SpaceX continues to make progress on launching its rockets and attempting to land them on a floating platform at sea. The Elon Musk-founded company was supposed to conduct its second launch of the year this last week in ...

A team of Stanford researchers have developed a novel means of teaching artificial intelligence systems how to predict a human's response to their actions. They've given their knowledge base, dubbed Augur, access to onli...

The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 has made a successful test flight in Hawaii, where it has been grounded for repairs on its round-the-world trek, the Swiss-based project said Saturday.

Did your Mac's Ethernet port mysteriously stop working recently? If so, you could have fallen afoul of a nasty bug that was introduced in a recent OS X security update. Here's how to fix it. As pointed out on Reddit, a r...

Sony has reportedly filed a trio of patents for a new glove-based controller system. NeoGAF user Rösti came across the filings. The system centers around a finger-tracking flex sensor, a separate contact sensor that reg...

By the end of 2016, WhatsApp will no longer work on most BlackBerry devices, even those loaded with the company's latest mobile platform. In the blog post the WhatsApp team published today, they reminisced about their la...

In March 2013, researchers at the CERN laboratory made history when they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Though its existence had been hypothesized for over half a century, confirming its existence was a majo...

Long before Apple and the government squared off over the contents of an iPhone, there was another cataclysmic clash.