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Apple is looking in pretty good shape this week. After posting a record quarter, IDC reported that the iPhone overtook Samsung during the holiday quarter and Strategy Analytics estimated that the Apple Watch - which also...

The question might seem like nothing more than mental gymnastics, a thought-provoking but "out there" question meant to give college students something to discuss at 3am. However, work published last week in Physical Rev...

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock - called cryovolcanoes - might disappear ov...

Microsoft, Facebook and Apple are among those penning a letter to President Trump opposing the recent immigration ban.

We all know that frogs have one of nature's coolest methods of catching their prey--blasting their tongue out and latching onto the victim. But we haven't fully understood how the process works. New research shows that f...

For roboticists working in the field of biomimetics, copying a bat's complex flight patterns has been a difficult problem to solve. Or, as Caltech professor and Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Soon-Jo Chung put it d...

Donald Trump's ascension to the Oval Office has taught us many things, not the least of which is that anyone can truly become President. Political affiliations aside, the fact that someone with absolutely zero political ...

Dick Costolo says he's sorry for not doing enough to curb social network's bullying and trolling.

If you're the CEO of a company, here's another threat you need to worry about: hackers trying to recruit your employees for insider-related crimes. Researchers at security firms RedOwl and IntSights have noticed growing ...

It likely won't be too long until we can all share more than one photo in an Instagram album. The company is reportedly testing out the feature in its latest Android beta release, Droid Life reports. Multi-photo albums w...

People with misophonia find sounds like rustling paper or clacking keyboards deeply distressing. Now scans have revealed differences in how their brains work

Here’s one more app you can delete from your iPhone: that QR code and barcode scanner you only occasionally use. With an update rolling out today, Google’s Chrome mobile browser can do the job instead. The app now in...

Digital transformation efforts are underway at most enterprises. But a new survey found that security and budgetary constraints are major challenges for businesses trying to achieve digital goals.

According to public expenditure records, the Metropolitan Police Service paid for a "hands on tracking" hacking course.

That’s kind of the thing about pilot programs – they don’t always result in a successful launch. Less than a year after beginning testing at select locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Google is pulling the plu...

(Phys.org)--A combined team of researchers from several institutions in Japan has found evidence that suggests Pluto's distinctive red spot may have developed after a massive collision with a comet or other object. In th...

As legend goes, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow on Groundhog Day, you should expect six more weeks of winter; if he doesn't, plan for spring. Life's Little Mysteries investigates the accuracy of Phil's predictions.

Human Organs-on-Chips are microchips lined with human cells that replicate the way real human organs function.  The technology was designed by the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, where various human organs have be...

The former NASA administrator said the Trump administration "seems to be curtailing the availability of valuable data to decision makers." SpaceNews.com

Developers of the widely used WordPress content management system released an update last week, but intentionally delayed announcing that the patch addressed a severe vulnerability. WordPress version 4.7.2 was released o...

3D Touch might be on of iOS's most unique and most ignored features. Using sensors in your iPhone it knows exactly how hard you're pressing and contextually gives you a whole slew of cool options for your particular pres...

Tampa, Orlando, and St. Louis top the list of US cities with the highest rates of malware infections in 2016, according to a new report.