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The educational program is aimed at middle school students, but critics say the fact it requires a tablet makes it unavailable to lower-income families.

The Grolier Codex, thought by some to be a forgery, just might be the real deal, according to a reassessment of the Maya text.

The Galaxy Note 7's battery issue is pretty serious, and more devices seem to blow up every day. Samsung has recalled the handset worldwide, but that doesn't mean all owners have turned in the smartphone. In the past day...

 The AI field lacks diversity — even more spectacularly than most of our software industry. When an AI practitioner builds a data set on which to train his or her algorithm, it is likely that the data set will only re...

Doctors have long dreamed of delivering drugs to specific parts of your body, and they may soon have a clever way to do it: fish. UC San Diego researchers have developed nanoscale metallic fish (they're just 800 nanomete...

WikiLeaks is no stranger to controversy. In July, the organization posted tons of Americans' credit card and social security numbers . In August, the "whistleblower site" published dozens of malware links in an email dum...

NASA was supposed to be the European Space Agency's partner in the quest to measure gravitational waves, but it had to drop out in 2011 due to budgetary constraints. According to Science, though, NASA officials changed t...

There are plenty of efforts to make drone-destroying lasers. But what about protecting those drones? Adsys Controls thinks it can help. It's making Helios, a passive jammer that confuses laser weapons. If it detects an i...

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it liable for reviews posted on the site.

A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST claims to have made yet another step towards finding a solution to one of the critical but unsolved fusion plasma physics problems, which is to mitigate or suppress the potent...

The new WhatsApp update introduced in its latest beta version for Android has features similar to Snapchat's functionalities. Changes also include tweaks to the app's proprietary camera interface.

Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including many from Seagate network-attached storage devices, are being used by criminals to host cryptocurrency mining malware. Researchers from security vendor Sophos made ...

This week's milestones in the history of technology.

Almost six months after the Psychoactive Substances Act, drugs such as spice are advertised on dark web markets.

So-called "Project Titan" is shifting gears

HP Inc. is buying Samsung Electronics Co.'s printer business in a deal worth $1.05 billion. HP said Monday that it is the largest print acquisition in the company's history and will help it go from traditional copiers to...

It's long been rumored that Samsung wants to start producing its own GPUs to use with its Exynos chipset, and now the company is in talks with Nvidia and AMD with a view to licensing their technologies. The post Samsung ...

Investors have wiped more than $14 billion in value from the company

Lithium ion batteries are all around us -- they help turn over the engines on Boeing 787s and Teslas, they energize laptops made by the likes of Dell Technologies, and they power your Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Despite skidding sales and early bets that its latest smartphone won't do well in China, Apple won't be giving any bargains to its fans in the world's biggest smartphone market, according to newly released global prices...

Officials say there are many reasons why the U.S. is reluctant to retaliate, at least publicly.

Google Cardboard Camera lets you take VR photos, and a new feature let's you easily share them.