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Watch two snakes duke it out with ostensibly no explanation.

The FX show shares a setting with Jane Austen's stories--but nothing else. The post FX's Taboo Is Basically Bizarro World Jane Austen appeared first on WIRED.

The iCloud Notes you delete are supposed to be permanently wiped within 30 days. Gone forever, never to be seen again. Russian security firm ElcomSoft has discovered, however, that Apple has been keeping deleted notes in...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was designed to be a repository should the worst happen and a disaster decimate crops around the world. But it was recently breached by floodwater from surrounding permafrost that melted af...

Scientists made a breakthrough discovery where they found a method to produce limitless blood supply. This procedure could potentially be used to treat blood disorders and life-threatening infections.

In March, the FAA noted that over 100,000 hobby drone owners had registered their machines since the year began, bringing the total in the US over 770,000. Owners have filed their non-commercial UAVs with the agency ever...

French security researchers have come up with a solution that may help users impacted by the WannaCry ransomware recover their encrypted files without having to fork over $300 worth of Bitcoin to hackers. According to a ...

Since people first took to the skies, numerous milestones have marked our progress, as intrepid pioneers tested the limits of how far and how fast we could fly.

Back in February, we shared a simple animation made by the film brand Ilford that shows how a film SLR works. It turns out that video was the first in a series of many animations in a playlist titled “Introduction to f...

We all know the humble URL; it tells the internet where we want to go. But, as digital artist Alexander Reben discovered, it can do so much more. It turns out that entire webpages can live within its character string -- ...

It was early Thursday morning when astronomer Matt Muterspaugh noticed something strange with the star he had been observing for the last year and a half. Telescope data taken from the night before showed that the bright...

A remarkable new image reveals the teething painsof an entire planetary system --

A new brain stent could let paralyzed people control exoskeletons with their thoughts. The device is inserted into the jugular vein and plugs directly into the brain, without having to perform surgery on the skull. The p...

A new off-Broadway play follows the early life of Jerrie Cobb, a pilot who became famous in the early 1960s as the "almost-first" woman in space.

Virtual reality has taken the tech world by storm, but some developers think AR will be bigger in the long run. The post Why virtual reality developers think AR is going to be bigger than VR appeared first on Digital Tre...

You might think of our solar system as our most immediate celestial neighborhood -- and when compared with the vastness of the universe as a whole, it certainly is -- but it's still pretty difficult for researchers to ac...

Google launched the Android Go initiative for entry level devices at its I/O keynote, and the company has confirmed it is NOT a replacement for Android One.

Uber is in the midst of several lawsuits and has a controversial CEO leading the company. It also has to placate its own growing horde of dissatisfied drivers who complain that their revenue potential is dropping, even w...

Exploding electronics are a, uh, hot topic lately. Between the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall and an epidemic of exploding hoverboards, people are more aware than ever that things with batteries go up in flames occasionall...

Some cell-phone stories could close: the walk-out includes 21,000 workers on the wireless side of the company.        

In nature, creatures that look ferocious and intimidating oftentimes have personalities to match. So, when researchers finally managed to find an active colony of an ant species with a frightening appearance and a name t...

Google's plan to improve the Android experience involves more than just tweaking the operating system. It also requires developers to up the quality of their work, and now Google has a new way to warn app creators whose ...