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Of course, the "future" in the title refers to a possible future; we don't have a magical crystal ball yet. But even though we can't know what the future holds, if the current trends are any indication, Keiichi Matsuda's...

Facebook's getting bigger on nostalgia these days, now that it's got several years of our lives stored up in its digital vaults. But if you'd rather live in the present and make a clean break with the past--or just one p...

We're still a few months away from the anticipated, or dreaded, date, though not the far from WWDC, so naturally we're seeing near final speculation on how the iPhone 7 will look like, both inside and out. Most of the in...

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The sea wasp, a kind of jellyfish, can kill people in as little as three minutes by wrapping them in ten-foot-long tentacles and inflicting stings all over the body, injecting them with a potent and extremely painful ven...

One of the coolest features that the iPhone and other smartphones have gained in recent years is the ability to unlock the devices with a fingerprint rather than a passcode. A report claims that Apple is looking to make ...

Samsung on Thursday announced it will bring its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China through a partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba's financial arm, an institution once rumored to be negotiating an identical...

An old piece of ATM malware is back, and reportedly more dangerous and harder to detect than ever. According to security researchers from Kaspersky Labs, an updated piece of malware dubbed Skimer has infected numerous Wi...

 After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top secu...

Google's Project Ara modular smartphone venture is alive and well. In fact, it'll get a consumer launch next year. Blaise Bertrand, the head of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group, announced at Google I/O 201...

Canon's latest flagship DSLR, the EOS 1D-X Mark II, only recently started shipping, but users are reporting of at least one interesting but bizarre issue. The post Canon’s 1D-X Mark II suffers from bizarre glitch when ...

I just sat down with Rafe Caramago and several members of his Project Ara team to learn more about the modular smartphone -- because there's a lot going on with this thing. The project, which many had assumed was on its ...

NASA has opened accreditation for media to attend the September launch of the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid. NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIR...

Routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks have recently been infected by a worm that exploits a year-old remote unauthorized access vulnerability. The attack highlights one of the major issues with rou...

Google's forthcoming Daydream platform for virtual reality has support from Android device makers including Samsung, HTC, LG, and Huawei, though the hardware is predicted to only be "slightly better" than Samsung's own G...

Say goodbye to your boring session in the gym and get your sweat on anytime and anywhere with the DoubleFlex Total Body Portable Gym. SpiraFlex technology, which was developed by NASA for astronauts on the International ...

Everyone loves fireworks, it's beautiful to see explosions of light and sound in the air for a festive occasion. A company called Star-ALE wants to take fireworks to the next level. Rather than shooting fireworks into th...

The European Space Agency on May 20 produced a radar satellite image of a 2-kilometer-long oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that ESA officials say could be from the missing EgyptAir MS804, which disappeared on ...

Augmented reality and virtual reality are hip and cool right now, mostly because they are relatively new to consumers and present a lot of wonderful possibilities. But like any technology, the computers and the Internet,...

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration released Thursday a list of voluntary privacy best practices for commercial and non-commercial drone users, in the wake of concerns that drones could encroach ...

The NSA whistleblower warns against using Google's new messaging app calling it "unsafe" for not employing end-to-end encryption.

Ever since Democritus - a Greek philosopher who lived between the 5th and 4th century's BCE - argued that all of existence was made up of tiny indivisible atoms, scientists have been speculating as to the true nature of ...