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Microsoft is making a lot of assumptions with the Xbox One S. It's a 40 percent smaller, 100 percent whiter version of the Xbox One that launched nearly three years ago, albeit with a few key differences. First is the bu...

NASA analyzed rainfall data from slow-moving storms that triggered flash floods over parts of central Maryland and caused devastating flooding in historic Ellicott City, Maryland....

Astronomers have managed to peer into the past of a nearby star millions of years before its famous explosion, using a telescope in remote outback Australia at a site free from FM radio interference.

 Twitter this morning announced a change to how its Moments feature will work for those who want to follow the Rio 2016 Olympic Games via its platform. Previously, followable Moments were limited-time collections that w...

Samsung invented the phablet and it's not wiling to let go of the reins, with the Galaxy Note 7 the latest in its pen-enabled series of super-sized Android smartphones. Debuting in New York City today, the Note 7 builds ...

Over the past few months, cybercriminals have set up thousands of malicious domains and servers in Brazil in anticipation of the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Threat data collected by Fortinet from over 2 million sensors worldwi...

It happens a few times every year. Last week, we poured our morning coffee, powered up our laptop and phone, and prepared to engage the day.

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market. The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealD...

Thanks to Team Molecule, PS Vita users will be able to make use of a jailbreak dubbed HENkaku, which lets one run homebrew software and emulators on the console. The exploit is browser-based and free of cost.

Snapchat users could soon be scanning more than each other's snapcodes. The company is reportedly working on scannable ads that would unlock sponsored content within the app. Like QR codes before them, these machine-read...

This could be how light becomes a more common data carriage medium We've known for some time that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light (colloquially known as "twisted light") can be modulated to carry information,...

Tiny device could drive remote CAN bus assassinations Black Hat VIDEO Car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have again hacked a 2014 Jeep Cherokee, this time by physically linking a laptop to commandeer its steeri...

I absolutely love sweet potatoes (and yams) but I'm not a huge fan of waiting the hour or so it takes to cook them in the (very hot) oven. To cut down on this interminable wait, slice them and pop 'em in your toaster.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge was the world's top-selling Android smartphone model in the first half of 2016.

The "Magic Carpet" reduces pilot strain, saves money, and marks the US military's greatest acronym yet. The post New Navy Tech Makes It Easy to Land on a Carrier. Yes, Easy appeared first on WIRED.

There's a lot of stuff out there on the web, and you want to be able to get around all of it fast. You can of course make use of your mouse but there are always times when a keyboard combo is more efficient and more conv...

The move is one of a number of emoji updates due this fall

From "Star Trek" to science fiction to real-life space, NASA employees paid tribute to the role of inspiration at the Comic-Con International in San Diego last weekend.

With New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo leading the charge, registered sex offenders in New York will no longer be allowed to play or even download Pokemon GO, or any other interactive online game for that matter. Per a g...

But Windows dips below 50 per cent of all web traffic according to US gov data Windows 10 has grabbed more than 20 per cent of the world's desktops in its first year, according to the web-watchers on which The Register r...

Ever wished to make your pet ostrich fly? Well, first of all, that's an odd pet choice. But there's a way of giving it wings if you still want to do it, though it's a bittersweet victory: you'll first have to wait for it...

The folks at Instagram have launched a new feature for their mobile app called Instagram Stories - a name you may have (sort of) heard before. Snapchat has a similar feature, one called Snapchat Stories - or Snapchat's M...