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TalkTalk's profits fall by more than half following cyber attack in October last year.

Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious.

SpaceX, the space exploration company dedicated to cost efficient space travel and exploration, loves to land rockets on tiny barges out in the middle of the ocean.  Given the vast amount of resources that the company h...

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, San Diego: A promising new test is detecting prostate cancer more precisely than current tests, by identifying molecular changes in the prostate specific antigen (PSA) protein, according to Clevela...

Researchers at Stanford are trying to give drones another of insects' useful traits: the ability to land on vertical walls, and even upside down. They've already gotten pretty far on a system that lets drones do that. As...

The House has blocked access to its networks from Yahoo mail accounts, according to a House IT office memo that emerged last week.

James Comey says a fear of ending up on the Internet may be leading to less aggressive policing.

In a briefing with reporters, FBI director James Comey said that he expects litigation over the encryption of mobile devices to continue, as encryption is "essential tradecraft" of terrorist organizations like ISIS, repo...

YouTube is now facing competition from Amazon with the launch of its new service, Video Direct. The Amazon product allows creators to upload their own videos for members of Amazon's Prime Video service to watch.     ...

Toyota has just purchased a 2007 Tundra with over a million miles on the clock from its original owner. The company will tear the truck down entirely and look at how various components have held up over time. The post Ho...

Detecting HIV earlier, through screening programs that can identify the virus shortly after infection, may lead to lower rates of HIV transmission in local epidemics, suggest findings from a new study. After an acute inf...

As cyber attacks grow ever more sophisticated, those who defend against them are embracing behavioral science and economics to understand both the perpetrators and their victims --

CES Asia opened it doors for the second time in Shanghai this May. And the Chinese version of the world's largest tech show, CES, which is based in Las Vegas, didn't hold back on the weird and the wonderful. Condensing a...

Reducing background tab activity, other tweaks increase battery life vs. Chrome.

Weird radio echoes that appear at dawn every day over an observatory in Peru have long baffled scientists, until now.

Particle physicists around the world are currently on the edge of their seats awaiting information about the traces of a brand new particle that were found during the latest run of the Large Hadron Collider particle acce...

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Amateurs prepare big-picture perspective to support Juno mission Some of the world's leading amateur and professional astronomers are meeting on 12-13 May to prepare for a campaign of ...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's eighth contracted cargo resupply mission to the Inter...

Weeks after cancelling two generations of Atom mobile chips, Intel is paving the way for future low-power mobile technologies with a new research collaboration with a French atomic energy lab. Fundamental research leadin...

Adobe readies patch cannons. Yet again Adobe will this week patch a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that is being actively exploited in the wild....

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else. The story of particle mass starts right after the big bang. During the very first moments of the universe, almost all pa...

It has been one hundred years since the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity in May 1916. In a paper recently published in EPJ Plus, Norwegian physicist Øyvind Grøn from the Oslo and Akershus Universi...