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The west side of the ancient Egyptian pyramid is slightly longer than the east side, scientists have found.

Blue Origin scored another flawless landing of its reusable New Shepard rocket on Sunday, and also tested a crash-landing scenario for its unmanned crew capsule. Check out the video to see it come down. The post Watch Bl...

Next version release candidate drops, stable gets bug-fixes Big iron sysadmins: there's a significant upgrade to OpenMPI in the works....

Virginia Mason Hospital is contacting at least 650 dialysis patients who may have been exposed to hepatitis B over the past five years. The problem stems from lapses in screening procedures.

The latest trailer for HBO's Westworld just aired on HBO, and it looks terrifying. Here, we see the eponymous Westworld, a futuristic theme park filled with human-like automatons. But it seems like the robots are develop...

Someday, computers could help doctors diagnose diseases much faster than they can today. Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have developed a way to train artifi...

 We live in a time where the global sharing of threat intelligence is not only possible; it’s vital to the security of our global infrastructure, and the public and private sectors have been working tirelessly to crea...

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has just released an update on the state of the Earth's coral reefs, and it's bleak as hell. For the third year in a row, many reefs around the world will be exposed to hot...

Fired founders. Desperate fundraising pleas. A dwindling user base. Trump the startup would not go far in the Silicon Valley. The post Lewandowski Is Out as Trump's Campaign Flails Like a Desperate Startup appeared first...

Last year, when Pebble announced its Time smartwatch lineup, the company showed off straps with built-in accessories that could interact with the watch body.  "Smart Straps," the company called them, were theoretically ...

Your Tesla Model S can double as a boat for short swimming distances, Elon Musk has confirmed, but he's also working on something for those with more serious aquatic ambitions. Though Tesla doesn't recommend it, Musk too...

The Indian government on Monday announced loosened policies towards local sourcing by foreign retailers, likely setting the stage for Apple launching its first stores in the country.

Researchers say the technology could improve robots, self-driving cars and stock trading   --

Apple on Monday introduced public transit directions for Denver, Colo. to users of its Maps apps for OS X and iOS, continuing a slow expansion of support.

One of Apple's first party apps that's getting a makeover in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra is Photos, bringing intensive new facial recognition and "Siri intelligence" features to the picture accumulating app. Over the weekend...

We live in an exciting time for so many reasons, but the progress being made toward decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels is certainly high on the list. The shift toward electric cars has been projected by several st...

DeepMind beat a world champion of Go , so now it wants to try its hand at a much more popular game. Sorta.

You may have heard of many-core processors before, but you probably haven't seen anything like this. UC Davis has developed the KiloCore, a CPU that (as the name suggests) packs a whopping 1,000 cores -- extremely handy ...

 There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology — software that is open to change and free to adopt — has gone from the exception to the rule for m...

The Terminator comes to your bank account If your wallet is too heavy by AU$10,000 or so, relax: Australian doctors can relieve your pain with a robot surgeon....

With over 25 percent of the world's population living off the electrical grid, finding a safe lighting solution for homes and businesses continues to present a challenge. But Greenlight Planet is hoping to make a differe...

It's so interesting to watch the magic material that is graphene get made, because you can't really see a damn thing. It's totally transparent and only one atom thick, so it's basically creating invisibility with the hel...