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The Mobilicity brand is disappearing, subsumed into Chatr Mobile, says parent company Rogers. According to an FAQ posted on Mobilicity's website, its 150,000-odd customers will be ported over to Chatr's billing system wi...

In the desert of North Las Vegas, Hyperloop got its first public showing.

Photos of the humongous Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada have popped up online, following the company's announcement that it aims to produce 500,000 electric vehicles by 2018.

Today's list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free comes a bit later than usual, but you'll love it every bit as much as you do on any other day. We've got 10 fresh apps for you on Wednesday's list, and you can...

Two researchers have come up with computer programs that will run forever as long as the deep mathematical assumptions they are testing are correct

If biochemists had access to a quantum computer, they could perfectly simulate the properties of new molecules to develop novel drugs in ways that would take the fastest existing computers decades.

A Canadian teenager believes he has discovered the ruins of a lost Mayan city in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula -- with the assistance of Google Maps and a star chart.

After coming to the U.S. Google Store in February, Cardboard VR units are now available to purchase in Canada, the UK, France, and Germany. Available for $20 CAD, £15 and €20 in Canada, the UK and Germany/France respe...

Los Angeles police are looking for robbers who stole an estimated $3 million worth of laptops at gunpoint from warehouse

 WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service that claims a billion users, has launched desktop clients for Mac and Windows. The release comes about 15 months after WhatsApp released its first web app.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday demanded an explanation from Facebook after reports that former company staffers excluded links to conservative political stories

Department of Chemical Engineering establishes new professorship and graduate student fellowship to honor alumnus.

 Google is moving beyond Cardboard. The company will reportedly be announcing a standalone Android VR headset at next week’s Google I/O event. Entrepreneur and former tech journalist Peter Rojas has tweeted that Googl...

Chemists have taken another major step in the quest to use carbon-hydrogen bonds to create new molecules, a strategy that aims to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis.

Photographer Garry Cornes of Glasgow, Scotland, attended the demolition of a 24-story building this past Sunday. After joining the crowd there and setting up his camera on the other side of the street, Cornes had his vie...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of heavy metal poisoning in colonial Antigua linked to the British Navy's excessive consumption of rum.

Instagram has been updated today with an all-new colorful icon, moving away from its iconic brown and beige logo that still had an iOS 6-style skeuomorphic design long after many popular developers moved towards flatter ...

Apple reported its first negative-growth quarter since 2003 last month as iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales all declined compared to the year-ago period, and new data shows that notebook sales unsurprisingly fared no better wh...

Sometimes even good ideas just don't work out in the real world, and to that end, Microsoft recently announced it's killing Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10. In fact, the latest Windows preview build for PCs, build 14342, alrea...

Adobe Systems is working on a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers are already exploiting in attacks. In the meantime, the company has released other security patches for Reader, Acrobat, and C...

IBM is using computer science to develop new weapons against tough-to-beat viruses like Zika and Ebola. And it's counting on a helping hand from Watson.

In a story that keeps on getting weirder, a scientist familiar with the Mexican region where a Canadian teen claims to have discovered a lost Maya settlement says at least one of these features is either an abandoned cor...