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New MacBooks and Magic keyboards are reportedly going to use e-ink displays in the future. This rumor is anchored on Apple's purported takeover bid of an Australian startup called Sonder.

China's newest radio telescope, the largest in the world, will work with the privately-funded Breakthrough Initiatives organization to hunt for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

While on a trip that's taken him to Shenzhen, China and Nintendo's offices in Kyoto, Japan, Apple CEO Tim Cook today met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussing topics related to the importance of the country ...

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is now banned on all domestic airline flights by the United States Department of Transportation. Samsung has issued a statement making it clear that the Galaxy Note 7 is 100% banned on flights u...

How can tiny collapsing bubbles inside a vat of water or other liquid reach temperatures of 20,000°? Nobody has a clue --

To put it mildly, Mars astronauts are likely to feel isolation on a level that even the most daring space explorers can't understand. How do you feel connected when Earth is just a dot in the sky? NASA, Smart Information...

The amount of pixels in a display has been the source of forum flamewars since the advent of HDTV, which makes an experimental display technology from the University of Sussex so interesting. It's called JOLED and it mea...

Periscope is removing its mobile tether, and in doing so is opening up the platform to a wider range of possibilities. The company has announced Periscope Producer, a way to livestream on the platform from devices other ...

Why don't Mars rovers move faster? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Frost.

As if this long, dark week couldn't get any worse, Spotify is dealing with some stability issues. Some people are still able to stream music, but plenty of people on Twitter are saying the service is totally down for the...

Claudio Caluori is a hilarious mountain biker who's scared of heights. So it's pretty perfect to force him ride a wild course filled with narrow ridges, scary slopes, and insane jumps.

Blood, sweat, and gears.

Harnessing solid-state quantum bits, or qubits, is a key step toward the mass production of electronic devices based on quantum information science and technology. However, realizing a robust qubit with a long lifetime i...

In a few months' time, you might notice getting different sets of search results on a phone and on a computer even if you use the same terms. That's because Google has decided to start indexing mobile websites separately...

Microsoft may have all but given up on Windows Phones, but rookies in the New York City Police Department are now getting them with their gun and badge. As CNET reports, the NYPD only started handing out department-issue...

Tencent, the Chinese tech giant that owns League of Legends, Supercell Games and WeChat, the most popular messaging app in China, announced on Friday that it will release a consumer quadcopter by the end of October.

It's October. Which means that one fried of mine just had her birthday and that other friend had a half birthday. Also, it means everyone is knee deep in autumnal colors and pumpkin spice frippery. Why? Because pumpkin s...

Amazon's children's video offerings are expanding once again. This time it's with an animated version of Ronja, the Robber's Daughter. That name might sound familiar if you were assigned a book report in 5th grade for As...

US FAA and PHMSA are expected to make the announcement today.

Pokemon Sun and Moon are nearly upon us, and the seventh generation seems to be ushering in big things for the Pokemon series. Not only do Sun and Moon seem to be bringing some significant changes to the age-old Pokemon ...

In a jaw-dropping blend of art and science, new-media artist Amy Karle is growing a skeletal human hand in a lab. Here's how she has managed to create it -- and what's next for the project. The post Body art: Artist usin...

Four dozen members of the US House of Representatives, acting as a bipartisan bloc, have requested that the Obama Administration brief them on allegations that Yahoo improperly scanned user emails at the behest of the Fo...