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We go hands-on with Mario Kart 8 for the Nintendo Switch. How does it stack up to the Wii U version, and is it worth a look at launch? Find out here in our first take on the launch window game. The post ‘Mario Kart 8 D...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A new study from Vanderbilt University presents an unorthodox approach to protect the privacy of genomic data, showing how optimal trade-offs between privacy risk and scientific uti...

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Samsung's past several months have been pretty lousy, but they're about to get much, much worse. South Korean prosecutors have announced that they're seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong (aka Ja...

SpaceX successfully launched — and landed! — its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, it's first launch since another one of its rockets exploded last fall.  Luckily for us, some adventurous guys caught the whole thing on c...

ZTE has outed an Android 7.0 Nougat beta test program for the ZMax Pro smartphone. This beta program is available only for the handset's users in the U.S. who can enroll now.

Samsung will focus more on health wearables than robots in this year, in stark contrast to its South Korean rival LG Electronics, which revealed the Hub Robot, a mobile artificial intelligence assistant, at the Consumer ...

One big problem with lithium-ion batteries is that they have the tendency to catch fire and blow up all kinds of gadgets like toys and phones. To solve that issue, a group of researchers from Stanford University created ...

Samsung's next flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, will be arriving very soon. The pressure is on for the Korean electronics giant to deliver a flagship phone that not only improves on the specs of last year's Galaxy S7 and S...

For mysterious reasons, one of the most successful and dreaded ransomware campaigns has been dormant for weeks.

Ellen DeGeneres is a lovable and wonderful human being. You can't help but smile when you watch her. Is it her impeccable hair? Her smile? Her charisma? Those help, but it's simpler than that: she tells funny, endearing ...

Protecting user privacy has always been at the core of Mozilla's mission. In Firefox 52, they're adding protection against a particularly sneaky way some services identify users.

Why did Microsoft want to buy Maluuba so badly? It has a lot to do with seeing the big picture

Click through to the main Loop post for details on some experience with Best Buy shipping AirPods in only 3 days from order. Your mileage may vary.

Before you start complaining again about the lack of 8K video content online, take a moment to experience what TV was like 87 years ago. As Tim Rowett of Grand Illusions demonstrates, in 1929 TV screens were the size of ...

Apple Music front man Jimmy Iovine all but confirmed last week’s report that Apple is on the hunt for original scripted TV shows for the subscription service. He said Apple is looking for ways to set the streaming musi...

The GEO-CAPE ROIC In- Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) CubeSat was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, January 31, 2015, as an auxiliary payload to the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.

The rapid retreat of the Coronation Glacier in Canada's Arctic region is remaking the landscape.

Minimizing air resistance and friction with snow is key to elite performance in downhill skiing. Experiments in wind tunnels have revealed the total drag experienced by skiers, but have not provided precise data on which...

A widely held understanding of electromagnetic radiation has been challenged in newly published research led at the University of Strathclyde.

AlSat Nano, which was designed and built at the University of Surrey in just 18 months, has captured and downloaded its first full colour image--a step forward in demonstrated UK nanosatellite capability.

Rolling up the slopes of Mt. Sharp recently, NASA's Curiosity rover appears to have stumbled across yet another meteorite, its third since touching down nearly four and a half years ago. While not yet confirmed, the turk...