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Scientists in Japan have successfully created a revolutionary artificial skin that can produce sweat and grow hair. The lab-grown skin could someday be used to offer functional skin transplants to patients with skin dise...

No web-connected service is safe. If you need more proof of this, consider a recent alleged attack on a porn site that apparently gave a hacker access to more than 237,000 accounts. In the aftermath of the Apple vs. FBI ...

Even a Godzilla El Niño could not save some California farmers from another year of crippling restrictions. The post El Niño Did Few Favors for Southern California's Farmers appeared first on WIRED.

The $6,500 Nikon D5 DSLR and $3,200 Sony a7R II mirrorless camera are two of the current leaders in low-light, high-ISO shooting, but how do they stack up against each other? This 1.5-minute comparison video will show yo...

Liven up your travels with the AirTag Luggage Tag by TEEV. Looking like it's fresh off a 747, this luggage tag is designed to be a mini airplane window complete with a decorate pull-down blind. It comes with an image of ...

For these kids, games and cute robots are more than just fun. On World Autism Awareness Day, we look at some of the ways technology is improving the lives of those with the condition.

(Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has assured law enforcement across the United States that it will help unlock mobile devices such as iPhones involved in investigations when it is allowed by law and policy...

It hasn't even been 24 hours since we got our first glimpse of Tesla's $35,000 Model 3 electric vehicle, and the pre-orders are flying in. Despite, or possibly because of, a polarizing style and interesting cabin that di...

What exactly does a flight controller do? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Frost.

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The team at CheapCarInsurace.net surveyed 2,000 Americans to determine how they really feel about driverless cars, revealing some rather interesting insights into our driving habits today. The post How do Americans reall...

The FCC has taken the first step in a long process toward crafting new privacy protections for broadband customers. But what will the new rules mean for you?

A Ukrainian mathematician has solved the centuries-old sphere-packing problem in dimensions eight and 24. The post Mathematician Solves the Centuries-Old Sphere Problem in Higher Dimensions appeared first on WIRED.

Talk about irony. At a time when many astronomers are trying hard to find evidence of alien life, a pair of astronomers at Columbia University are exploring what we might do to keep aliens from finding us. Professor Davi...

Microsoft says it isn't going to block ads natively in the next version of the Edge browser. There's good reason to believe it too.

Ricoh is holding its second developers contest, focusing on how the Theta camera platform could be optimized for Internet of Things applications. The developer would win a cash prize and trip to Tokyo. The post Winner of...

Renewable energy and electric cars are becoming competitive with technologies based on fossil fuels. Still, if they are to become truly transformative, we need to develop a new generation of batteries to power them.

The genomes of two distinct strains of the virus that causes the common lip cold sore, herpes simplex virus type 1, have been identified within an individual person -- an achievement that could be useful to forensic scie...

A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed a new method to detect what kind of mycorrhizae are attached to the roots of trees using only satellite images. Mycorrhizae are fungi that form mutually benefici...

Conversation fillers such as "hmm" and "uh-huh" may seem like insignificant parts of human conversation, but they're critical to improving communication between humans and artificial intelligence. So argues Alan Black, a...

Will small drones be able to legally fly over crowds?