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This week, asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries announced detailed plans to launch the first private mission to an asteroid by 2020. The California-based company plans to build a successor to its Prospector-X te...

Splitting a bowling ball with an axe sounds like the kind of futile activity you should not try at home, mainly because it's not likely you'd succeed. But there is one way this trick could work, and the following video p...

With multiple flights of its New Shepard vehicle under its belt, Blue Origin is appraising the research market for scientific and technological experiments that can be lofted to suborbital space.

Facebook and Adblock Plus are at war over the social network's HTML ads. The ad-blocking tool has now unveiled a filter it says can reblock Facebook ads. Adblock Plus may have won the battle, but the ad war is far from o...

Looking in craters for signs of Mars life may not be the biological goldmine we hoped.

Google Fiber is the ISP that everyone wants -- absurdly fast, unlimited internet for a reasonable price. It could legitimately be called the anti-Comcast, and that name now works in more ways than one. A new FCC filing r...

Radio communication is a weak point for most military operations -- it is never long enough or strong enough. The Air Force's solution to improve their long-distance calls? Supercharge the atmosphere by detonating plasma...

We can assure you we'll never buy this $6,000 phone charger, which resembles an umbilical cord and pulsates while plugged in.

Researchers have invented a self-repairing mechanism for clothing using the proteins found in squid chompers.

Apple has made a bunch of improvements to its QuickType keyboard for iOS 10, and one of those is support for multilingual typing. This lets you type in multiple languages simultaneously, and it’s super simple to set up...

CarPlay may be Apple's attempt to redress the dashboard in an iOS outfit, but Spanish automaker SEAT has managed to squeeze a little of its own tech into the iPhone-powered infotainment. The company has launched a CarPla...

It's a game of cat and mouse. On Tuesday, Facebook announced it would begin circumventing ad blocking software in an effort to show more ads in the News Feed. The ad-blocking community was pissed and vowed to fix the pro...

Like a horological version of a mullet, watchmaker Sinn has created something it calls the Dual Strap System allowing someone to wear both a traditional watch, and the Apple Watch, at the same time. It's business up fron...

When it comes to mobile accessories, Kanex is a pretty decent option if you want something that does not break the bank, and neither will it make you look tacky toting it around. This summer might be drawing to a close i...

A new organization that will perform key internet domain name system functions has been formed, suggesting that a proposed transition to a global governance model could be completed this year despite opposition from some...

The UN is investigating reports that a barrel bomb containing chlorine gas was dropped on rebel-held territory in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday

Four years after Oscar Pistorius made history at the London Olympics, the question remains unanswered --

Astronomers are narrowing the field in their search for a "second Earth."

Seems like some people just can't resist whipping out their smartphone for a quick selfie, even if they happen to be motoring along a highway at the time. A recent study into the behavior also revealed the state where mo...

London's Metropolitan Police department is still relying on 27,000 desktops with Windows XP installed, and is paying Microsoft to provide security updates. The Dutch government previously paid around $1.7 million for Win...

Twitter says the story posted on BuzzFeed was inaccurate, but wouldn't say which parts of the piece were inaccurate. One former Twitter employee called the service, "A Honeypot For Assholes."∞ Read this on The Loop

Instagram released its Stories feature earlier this month --which is basically a rip-off of Snapchat Stories--in order to tap into the ephemeral social media market. In both features, Snapchat and Instagram let your pict...