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It was bound to happen some time... and it has. After having a sterling safety record over the past couple of years, one of Google's self-driving cars has gotten into an accident that was actually its own fault. Google's...

Talia Alvarez, currently studying her doctorate at the University Of Manchester, U.K., has designed nanostructured ceramics, which are thermoelectric materials that convert the heat produced un industrial processes into ...

To be perfectly frank, we have very mixed emotions about the video you're about to watch. Is this how it begins? The robots trick us into letting our guard down by acting all cute and playful. Then the next thing you kno...

In 1992, the U.S. men’s basketball team became the first American Olympic lineup featuring active NBA players. Dubbed one of the best group of athletes ever assembled, players set the bar for excellence in sports. It�...

With just a tiny tweak, researchers at Kyushu University greatly increased the device lifetime of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that use a recently developed class of molecules to convert electricity into light w...

A federal judge denied the use of the All Writs Act, a law that federal authorities have cited in insisting on Apple's help breaking into iPhones.

Huawei might be a company known more for their mobile products like smartphones, but in recent times and with the rise of wearables, it did not exactly come as a surprise to see the company attempt to break into the mark...

Since last November, you have been able to play Xbox 360 games on an Xbox One. Not all of your old library of games are available presently, but there are more than 140 titles currently available. Xbox is also adding to ...

That time a court legally ruled a girl a 'robot.'

Park Won-Soon, the mayor of Seoul, announced that every public space of Seoul will have free WiFi by 2017, including moving subways and buses, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

After threatening to crack down on VPNs, proxies and other similar workarounds earlier this year, Netflix is finally making good on its promise. Over the weekend, one European Netflix user took to Reddit to express his f...

It is time to bust out the credit card if you have been hankering after a Pebble device for the longest time, but never really took the plunge simply because the price point is not as comfortable as how you would have li...

We need more diversity in tech, not just for the good of tech employees, but for the good of tech consumers. Three black women engineers at the workplace messaging startup Slack -- Duretti Hirpa, Erica Baker and Megan A...

This year's $1 million A.M. Turing Award goes to a pair of cryptographers whose ideas helped make the Internet possible. Both men say giving governments control over encrypted communications puts everyone at risk.

AT&T has announced plans to diversify DirecTV access, soon allowing subscribers to stream content over the Internet regardless of ISP and using nearly whatever Internet device they want. This will be made available under...

The inventors of public key cryptography have won the 2015 Turing Award, just as a contentious debate kicks off in Washington over how much protection encryption should really provide. The Association for Computing Machi...

The dawn of a new era has begun in Geneva with the eagerly anticipated official debut of the Aston Martin DB11. Every great carmaker has an icon that will shape perception for a generation, and this Aston Martin DB11 wil...

Flight has evolved independently at least three times, by three different animal groups: birds, bats, and insects. Now, a team of researchers at Georgia Tech has confirmed that a species of aquatic snail, the "sea butter...

A company is screening blood samples in an effort to develop a biologically based method to diagnose autism. The company specializes in detecting the byproducts of cellular activity and then applying high-powered statist...

Evidence has been found that genetic influence on cerebral glucose metabolism played a major role in the bilateral parietal lobes and the left temporal lobe of the human brain, while environmental influences after birth ...

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Researchers have identified three risk factors that make adults with mental illness more likely to engage in violent behavior. The findings give mental health professionals and others working with adults with mental illn...