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Scientists are trying to make quantum computers a reality by connecting many small networks together into one large whole --

When YouTube star Casey Neistat launched his Beme video app last summer to his nearly one million subscribers, it blew up right out of the gate: In just a few days, half a million people downloaded the app and double tha...

Remember that part in the new Snowden trailer , where Ed sneaks data out of the NSA by hiding a memory card in a Rubik's cube? Has to be bullshit, right?

Here’s the problem in a nutshell—or rather a thimbleful—facing the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Apple is known for harboring a bunch of design freaks, but did you know that you're never meant to speak of iPhones, just "multiple iPhone devices?"

Normally, a battery with a bigger capacity occupies more space than one with lower figures, which usually means having to adjust physical designs to accommodate the larger packs. BMW, however, has managed the rare feat o...

Steaks are good, yes. So are burgers on the grill and a roast in the oven. Cows, though, aren't so great for the environment, an issue that must be addressed as the world becomes hotter and climate change becomes more ra...

Apple's 3D Touch might have been the rage last year, but Microsoft's pre-touch display tech could be the rage this year on a Windows Phone or Surface tablet. The post Apple’s 3D Touch is so last year, Microsoft is work...

Microsoft has launched a new service to compete with the old and successful IFTTT service, which allows you to connect two different web services

Australia has a carp problem. According to Barnaby Joyce, the country's minister for agriculture and water resources, managing the fish--also known as "Australia's worst freshwater aquatic pest"--costs about $380 million...

Samsung Electronics hosted its annual developer conference, SDC, on April 27th and 28th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It announced the availability of Artik Cloud, a dedicated cloud platform for connecting the ...

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Canonical has been talking up Snaps, a new type of package format featured in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. "Users can install a snap without having to worry whether it will have an impact on their other apps or their system," reads...

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If left unpatched, these holes can pose a huge security risk to users.

A “starshade” flying alongside the WFIRST observatory could deliver images of potentially habitable worlds decades ahead of schedule --

OK, this is bound to raise some red flags among privacy advocates, even more than Google Glass ever did. It is also going to make sci-fi aficionados drool and wish they would still be alive, not to mention capable of wea...

There's blood on the streets in 'Fear The Walking Dead' Sunday night.

The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that is the sh...

A paper published in the journal Science Advances, lead author Karen Meech of the University of Hawai`i's Institute for Astronomy and her colleagues conclude that C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) formed in the inner Solar System at...

Fingerprint readers are increasingly ubiquitous in smartphone design, so much so that the question is not whether to include one, but where to put it. Where some manufacturers have chosen to add readers into buttons on t...

When does DNA behave like sand or toothpaste?