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A morbidly obese monkey named Uncle Fatty is shining light on a growing problem: More and more animals in captivity and the wild are becoming obese from eating human foods.

The move follows a similar deal that Apple struck with Rome in late 2015, and comes as Europe wrestles with how much tax Silicon Valley companies should pay overseas.

Take your creativity to the next level with the Cubenizer online candy printer. This fun-filled mobile app game and candy printer lets you create real candy! On the app, you can discover candy flavors and cubes, name new...

There are plenty of legitimate reasons for carrying out a background check, and not all of them are creepy. Here are several methods that allow you to run thorough background check on someone online, whether you need to ...

No your eyes aren't deceiving you, that really is a banana phone on sale. A campaign on Indiegogo is planning on making banana-shaped phones a reality, because mankind has clearly run out of ideas. Image: banana phone/yo...

Apple updated its U.S. job creation web page today with figures from 2016. Though Apple refreshes the site every year, this latest update coincides with CEO Tim Cook’s announcement during a CNBC interview that the comp...

A prosthetic hand uses a mounted camera to "see" objects and speed up the reaction times to sync with the wearer.

Move could establish what would one day become a global broadband internet constellation.        

NASA has awarded the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services (OMES) II contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia, to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directo...

The hope is that over the course of the next few months, Facebook will help India add an additional 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, assisting a larger proportion of the Indian population in their quest to get online. The post Fac...

Imagination Technologies, the company that's long supplied graphics chip designs for the iPhone, has announced plans to sell off two of its businesses amid a major patent dispute with Apple. Last month, Imagination's bus...

Construction as we know it is slow, labor-intensive, inflexible, and expensive. But a team of researchers at MIT have developed an autonomous electrical robot arm that can use several raw materials to build entire struct...

If you've ever wanted to have a conversation with your own tiny home-made computer, then your prayers have just been answered. Raspberry Pi has teamed up with Google, bringing voice integration to the Pi with a clever co...

Apple yesterday updated its App Analytics service for mobile app developers on iTunes Connect, which will now offer more detail on how users found an app – whether through browsing or searching the App Store, or if the...

Cassini's six-month-long Grand Finale mission has become the unofficial nerd Super Bowl: each time the NASA-led spacecraft drops a new batch of raw images, we jump to our computers and frantically scroll through to find ...

Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has some amazing superpowers, specifically when it comes to observing innumerable galaxies f...

Stephen Hawking is putting his "humans must leave Earth in 100 years" theory to the test. Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland).        

Yesterday, we posted about a widely spread, relatively sophisticated Google Docs phishing attack. Google has taken steps to disable the accounts behind the attack, but that is a bit of a whack-a-mole problem. Attacks lik...

Men and women differ in some surprising ways, right down to their genes, according to a new study that found thousands of genes expressed differently in the two sexes.

Go-Jek, the motorbike on-demand startup that is battling Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed a new round of $1.2 billion led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, two sources close the company told TechCrunch. The deal, ...

The NSW government has been trialling connected trucks and buses for three years in Wollongong, with the tests to be expanded to passenger vehicles and to the Sydney region this year.

A multi-disciplinary team from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute for Technology created 'Liquid Glass' that can be used in room temperature 3D printing processes. The post Researchers create method for 3D printing with glass...