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The Air Force is considering taking over an existing geostationary orbit weather satellite operated by NOAA to help fill a gap in coverage over the Indian Ocean. SpaceNews.com

MIT researchers are developing mobile torrefaction technology that can convert biomass into clean-burning fuel, unlocking potential income for farmers.

The site offers itself as a venue for publishing climate research, as scientists and others fear censorship by the Trump administration.

Ultra high ISO with lots of noise… There's a lot of buzz going around about the new Pentax KP with it's maximum ISO of 819200. Every comment I read says 'what's the point'? Well, here are two benefits: late night frami...

Use these eight command-line utilities to reclaim space on your Linux machines.

For a busy parent, kids can be an obstacle to exercise: how can I distract or babysit them so I can get my workout in? But kids can join in a lot of workouts, too--you just have to pick the right approach for their age a...

Endpoint security firm now has raised more than $110 million in capital.

Charge! FROM avoiding jaywalkers to emergency braking to eventually, perhaps, chauffeuring the vehicle itself, it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important part of the cars of the future. But it is ...

In August, Fender’s slow expansion into non-guitar products continued with the company’s first app. Of course, the iconic Strat-maker played it pretty close to its base, releasing a fairly straight-forward guitar tun...

Rogue sites protesting the Trump team's new guidelines for federal agencies are popping up everywhere. The post Rogue NASA, EPA, NPS Twitter Accounts Launched to Protest Trump Directives appeared first on Universe Today.

If you're worried about the possibility of skin cancer, you might not have to depend solely on the keen eye of a dermatologist to spot signs of trouble. Stanford researchers (including tech luminary Sebastian Thrun) have...

Some regions of the world are not as free and open as others, and so not everyone can participate in sharing security information. Such could be the case with a Kaspersky Lab investigator who was arrested for treason in ...

There was a time, not so long ago, when cybersecurity seemed to be a major concern to the Republican Party. The GOP railed against Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. This wa...

Verizon is looking to gain a firmer foothold in the wireline internet business. It's reportedly in talks to merge with cable company Charter, which recently purchased Time Warner Cable. The post Verizon just ate Yahoo, a...

The Air Display app combo for iPad and macOS is one of several options to expand your Mac's desktop to the iPad -- AppleInsider examines a wireless way to connect the two and expand your macOS screen.

WHEN politicians in the rich world speak of job losses and stagnant incomes brought about by immigration and foreign competition, they usually have blue-collar work in mind--car manufacturing, steelmaking and the like. B...

THE beams of protons that circulate around the 27km-circumference ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest particle accelerator, carry as much kinetic energy as an American aircraft-carrier sailing at...

On Jan. 26, a team of scientists and experts announced the Doomsday Clock's new position for 2017.

The universe really is expanding faster than scientists had thought, new research suggests.

Spanish scientists have developed a 3D bio-printer capable of generating human skin, which is being hailed as the first living human organ created by bioprinting. The development has pushed bioprinting into the limelight...

Using gravitational lensing, astronomers have imaged distant quasars with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Facebook isn't exactly a stellar example of a company that values your privacy, but it just made its features' privacy settings much easier to understand. The social network has debuted a redesigned Privacy Basics sectio...