Technology News

MAX PLANCK, the inventor of quantum theory, once said that science advances one funeral at a time. He meant--or, at least, is presumed to have meant--that the death of a dominant mind in a field liberates others with dif...

The bright spots of Ceres continue to be a source of fascination for astronomers , professional and amateur alike. Now, NASA has provided the most detailed images yet of the strange structures.

Experts have lots of theories, but the one that seems likeliest would be a grind.

Is Tom Wheeler on the verge of following a dangerous path? Analysis The FCC's continued push against the powerful telco lobby has swung a spotlight onto the American regulator's archaic work practices and increasingly pa...

Thawte experiment aims to expose issuers of dodgy creds Google's announced another expansion to the security information offered in its transparency projects: it's now going to track certificates you might not want to tr...

In its monthlong fight with the Department of Justice over digital privacy, Apple has insisted it would under no circumstances force its engineers to undermine the company's security measures. So when federal prosecutors...

The Kepler space telescope captures something wonderful: the shockwave of an exploding star.

Fresh off its 10th birthday celebrations, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talks the future of the company in an extensive new profile of the social media entrepreneur. Topics on the agenda include user growth, Periscope, live co...

Methodist Hospital in Kentucky calls in the FBI and refuses to pay Another US hospital has had its records scrambled by ransomware trying to extort money from the sawbones. This time: it's the Methodist Hospital in Kentu...

A neutron star spinning from 7 to 40,000 times a minute emits beams of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been used to capture data about these "lighthouses."

Leaping the species boundary, again A recently published Microsoft patent application hints at future efforts to make Windows leap across the species boundary....

 It appears that Google is working on a third-party keyboard for iOS that would allow search functionality directly within the keyboard itself, according to The Verge. Casey Newton reports that the keyboard will have sw...

How else will they develop 'predictive policing'? The police are to consolidate a number of their large databases into a single "platform" in order to "protect victims and spot potential links to other crimes."...

Ride-hailing app Uber is offering hackers up to $10,000 to hack its system to uncover flaws, the company said on Tuesday.

Google will attempt to show how it aims to scramble into cloud contention at its first global cloud users conference, NEXT, starting today in San Francisco.

The Navy's largest and costliest destroyer was sent out to sea Monday for final trials before its delivery to the military. The future USS Zumwalt features an angled hull that looks like a hybrid of something out of Sovi...

WhatsApp's earlier announcement that it's leaving the BlackBerry ecosystem was apparently only the beginning of Facebook's exodus from the platform. The world's biggest social network and its Messenger app will stop work...

Men are less likely than women to go to the doctor, more likely to choose a male doctor when they do go, but less likely to be honest with that doctor about their symptoms, psychologists have found. The researchers belie...

Researchers examined the willingness of voting US citizens to become living kidney donors and to determine the potential influence of compensation for donation.

Ron Allum has made a career developing submarines and exploring the deep ocean. It sounds like a pretty good gig.

Yahoo is following the lead of DraftKings and FanDuel and stopping its paid daily fantasy sports operations in New York. Reuters reports that this shutdown won't affect other states, however.

left-pad pulled from NPM - which everyone was using Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript....