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(University of Michigan Health System) A new study shows just how much it costs to care for patients who suffer a complication after surgery, and how widely hospitals can vary in their ability to keep patients from suffe...

A unique discovery sheds new light on ancient Eurasia's cannabis culture.

Sony has taken the wraps off of its 24MP a6500 mirrorless camera. The flagship APS-C camera gains five-axis image stabilization and touchscreen operation. A larger buffer and more processing power also help set it apart ...

Apple plans to unify its cloud services teams, including Siri, Apple Maps, iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple News, and parts of iTunes and Apple Music, at its existing Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California, accordin...

Samsung has acquired Viv Labs, the company founded by the people who created Siri, with the plan on integrating the firm's new AI technology into future Galaxy smartphones and other Samsung products. The post Forget Goog...

As the rumor mill spins churns over speculation about who will take over ubiquitous microblogging network Twitter, a pair of reports on Wednesday put two of tech's biggest players, Apple and Google, and entertainment gia...

Animators and industry watchers have been pretty excited for the past few months about Saya, an incredibly realistic CGI Japanese teenager. Created by Tokyo-based husband and wife duo Teruyuki and Yuka Ishikawa, Saya's g...

Theranos, the blood-testing startup that was once the darling of Silicon Valley, is cutting hundreds of jobs and closing its clinical labs and wellness centers. The announcement came Wednesday in an open letter from Eliz...

Facebook promised it'll offer Messenger users end-to-end encryption, and the company finally rolled out the feature to all its users. However, Messenger isn't end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning you have to manually...

From director Doug Liman comes the first scripted series designed specifically for virtual reality, watchable on the Samsung Gear VR. The post Watch the Haunting Trailer For Invisible, VR's First Scripted Series appeared...

A few posts came out yesterday that provided greater clarity on Google’s ambitions with Pixel and how those ambitions may impact the overall Android ecosystem. First, an interview with Hiroshi Lockheimer came out yeste...

Working night shifts has little or no effect on a woman's breast cancer risk despite a review in 2007 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifying shift work disrupting the 'body clock' as a prob...

European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U.S. intelligence services. "It goes far beyond what is acceptable," said Johannes Caspar...

For all that time and money, the automaker has made effectively zero progress getting humanity to ditch fossil fuels for hydrogen. The post 50 Years of Making Hydrogen Cars, and Still No One Cares appeared first on WIRED...

Tesla Motors is being sued by a former engineer who claims he suffered discrimination -- and was ultimately fired -- because of his age. Thomas Flessner, age 69, was hired by Tesla in 2012 to work as a materials engineer...

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The road to Brexit Fly Title:  Cyber-security Print section Main image:  Mr Krebs contemplates life Rubric:  An electronic tsunami crashes down on a solitary journalist Mr ...

Introducing the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and play games with living microbes on your smartphone. Tormenting single-celled organisms has never been so much fun.

The one big flaw in Daydream View. Google's new Pixel phones are beautifully crafted pieces of technology. Ignoring all of the "it looks like an iPhone" nonsense from people who have yet to actually hold the phones, thes...

Samsung continued living its Apple dream this week. According to TechCrunch, the South Korean conglomerate purchased Viv, a next-generation artificial intelligence created by three of Siri’s creators. Bryan Chaffin off...

Wal-Mart is accelerating its investment in e-commerce in a bid to narrow the gap with Amazon and to give it an even more dominant position.

Recent disappointments have physicists looking beyond WIMPs for dark matter particles --

As expected, Apple has begun showing developer ads in the iOS App Store today for U.S. users, reports The Verge. Now, searching for popular terms like "taxi", "calendar", or "to do list" returns a banner ad for promoted ...