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SpaceX founder Elon Musk deserves kudos for outlining an ambitious plan to get humans to the Martian surface and beyond.  But chutzpah alone will not solve the multitude of research problems that are going to have to be...

/Musk's Mars plans stole the show at the Astronautical Congress, but Lockheed's vision for a Mars Base Camp makes a lot more sense.

Yahoo is the latest tech company to open source its computer vision code. The beleaguered outfit's application for it? Filtering porn. Yahoo hopes that its convolutional neural net (CNN) will empower others to better gua...

I take anecdotes with a grain of salt. But this month's stories tell me that kratom has potential medical benefits that deserve research, not banning.

On October 5th, the New York Public Library near Bryant Park in Manhattan will open up its newly renovated reading room to everyone. When that happens, members of the public will be able to get their first look not only ...

Sony released an unboxing video of its PlayStation VR Core package, set to hit shelves on Oct. 13. The package costs $400 and will include the PSVR headset and a demo disc with 18 playable games out of the box.

Priceonomics has ranked the most-popular cult TV shows, based on their IMDB scores. Across the board, Joss Whedon's space western Firefly took the cake, with over 190,000 ratings and an average score of 9.1 stars out of ...

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Phoneys, a top-grossing 'prank' sticker app for iMessage, has recently scuffed with Apple's lawyers, providing the developer some guidelines to implement to avoid being pulled from the store.

Materials scientists have created a material from graphene nanoribbons and a polymer that can bridge the gap between the ends of damaged or severed neurons.

 Top cancer researchers recently reported their findings and recommendations to President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot task force. All 10 recommendations in the report heavily concentrate on enabli...

"DressCode" apps turned phones into listening posts that could bypass firewalls.

Very early this morning, a man with a better chance of becoming President of the United States than I have of putting on pants in the morning instructed us all to (check out sex tape). Luckily for people who don't want t...

After lengthy delays and no small amount of political opposition, it's official: the US has given up a key aspect of internet oversight. As of October 1st, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the out...

We've only gotten tiny snippets of some of the latest ground forces for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but one kid's playground adventure gives the rest of us a solid look at the newest Scarif shoretroopers.

US television network The CW is making the jump into set-top box streaming in a way that can only be described as a cord cutter’s dream come true: with no requirement for a cable subscription. In addition to updating i...

Depending on your point of view (and probably your age bracket), Apple’s introduction of stickers and screen effects to iMessage is either a blessing or a curse. For those who dig stickers, there’s plenty of funny an...

By Cat DiStasio For a long time, business experts said, "Don't try to reinvent the wheel." Now, that's the primary objective for many engineers looking to create the vehicles of the future. And just when it seems that th...

Do not piss Deltu the delta robot off or it will stop playing games, ignore you, take a selfie and post it to Instagram. Cold.

In the ongoing search for dark matter, scientists are thinking that Gamma-rays might be able to reveal particles of dark matter.

Google's Tilt Brush debuted in September 2014 as a virtual reality painting experience -- immersion with the creative simplicity of MS Paint, as The Verge put it. They've added more in-game tools and hosted the odd art e...

Apple is in the final stages of constructing a mammoth new campus in California to house the bulk of its workers. It's been lovingly called the "Spaceship" for years, and the latest drone flyover of the site shows you wh...