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Its most recent victory is a phase-out on HFCs, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Thanks to boosts in visibility when it comes to search and web browsers, you've probably noticed more websites (like Engadget) switching to S, which uses encryption to secure the connection between browser and server. De...

Those involved in the design and manufacturing of hardware products understand that one of the most important phases of the process is testing. That's the point when all of the assumptions that have been made …

There has been growing concern among Android power users regarding Google's own Pixel smartphone. More than just the company's first self-made smartphone, it also represented a new way of doing Android, at least for Goog...

As President Barack Obama's administration enters its final stages, he's paying more attention to what's going on way, way above us than expected. Just days after the president outlined his vision for landing humans on M...

Jadon and Anias McDonald were born joined at the head last September. On Thursday evening, 40 medical professionals spent 16 hours disconnecting Jadon and Anias in a rare operation. The McDonalds are from Coal City, Illi...

While companies like Apple use third-party companies to test its phone batteries, a new report reveals that Samsung tested the exploding Galaxy Note 7 battery in-house. The Wall Street Journal reports:

This week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people--including two police officers and a hospital worker--experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness bel...

Under the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, but according to one group of federal prosecutors, just being in the wrong house at the wrong time is cause enough to make eve...

In an effort to drive continued innovation in a handful of key areas of technology and science, President Obama hosted the White House Frontiers Conference, a one-day conference in Pittsburgh. This conference is a joint ...

Tesla and Panasonic have announced that they intend to extend their partnership in solar power generation and storage. The two firms are currently working together to produce electric vehicle and grid storage battery cel...

Car makers have an interesting quandary to solve. On the one hand, everyone, including governments, demand more environment-friendly output from their cars. On the other hand, buyers and loyal fans also demand at least t...

Display makers might be obsessed with flexible and bendable screens, but such LCDs and OLEDs aren't the only ways to make an interesting display. What about one that floats in mid air? That's precisely what engineers fro...

Even, or especially, good things must come to an end. While the usual turnover for smartphones and computers is usually claimed to be two years, various laws mandate that manufacturers offer parts and repairs far longer ...

Three months ago, the Juno probe ended a years-long journey when it settled into orbit around Jupiter. Everything's just peachy with Juno's cameras -- as evidenced by these magnificent photos -- but it turns out its prim...

Following the United States' formal accusation that Russia conducted the hack on the DNC, new reports now claim that the Obama administration is considering what would be "an unprecedented cyber covert action against Rus...

WeChat owner Tencent has unveiled a new drone whose sole purpose will be to stream video directly to the popular messaging app. It's slated to go on sale at the end of October, and will set you back $299. The post WeChat...

There's a long-standing theory that you can tell which tweets Trump writes himself and which ones are sent by his campaign based on the device they're sent from. After analyzing Trump's tweets, data scientist David Robin...

Apple isn't letting Samsung's acquisition of Viv go unanswered. The Cupertino crew has hired Russ Salakhutdinov, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as a director of artificial intelligence resear...

Tesla may already be having problems at home related to its autopilot features, especially after a string of incidents involving mishaps and at least one death, but now it might also be facing troubles abroad simply beca...

Soon, it will probably be easier to talk about what Xiaomi isn't doing yet rather than what the growing Chinese giant is doing next. Following last week's leak of Xiaomi's supposedly flexible display prototype, there is ...

Researchers have used quantum computing tech to miniaturize a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, making it small enough to pick up the structure of single biomolecules without damaging them or losing information i...