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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved the new visa application that includes social media vetting on May 23. Applicants are required to give all handles from the past five years. The post Social media vetting...

Identity and password management services are, in theory, supposed to improve your security by promoting tough-to-guess passwords and otherwise keeping logins under lock and key. However, the concentration of high-value ...

NASA landed the Curiosity rover in Mars' Gale Crater precisely because it promised to be a sort of open book that revealed a lot about the planet's history. Well, scientists have been busy reading... and it looks like th...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - After threatening stormy skies over the Florida Space Coast miraculously parted just in the nick of time, the first ever recycled SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter blasted off on the 100th flight f...

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Look, we are not in any way suggesting that you should do anything illegal or unethical with a hidden security camera. That said, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to install spy cameras on your own property. If you...

See how the five-passenger Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet comes together. The post Inside the Factory Building the World's Smallest, Cheapest Private Jet appeared first on WIRED.

The X Prize Foundation has launched a number of competitions over the years that includes everything from addressing water quality and women's safety to exploring the depths of the ocean, to sending rovers to the moon. N...

A series of observations at the very edge of the universe has reignited a debate over what lifted the primordial cosmic fog. The post Cosmic Discoveries Fuel a Fight Over the Universe's Beginnings appeared first on WIRED...

A few days before French astronaut Thomas Pesquet departed the International Space Station, he reflected on his time in space in a heartfelt video titled "New Eyes."

Researchers of the gene editing technique observed mutation rates 10 times higher previously reported. But that means different things to scientists and doctors. The post Crispr's Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy?...

When Valve unveiled its plans to simplify game publishing through Steam Direct, it struggled to settle on a fee. Did it want to go low and make publishing more accessible, or go high to prevent abusers from putting out a...

An elementary class used a 3D printer to create a prosthetic hand for a classmate missing a hand; the hand was designed with a Spider-Man theme.

Verizon's prepaid plans will look a lot more enticing come June 6th: the mobile carrier has tweaked its current offerings, giving each tier a bigger data allowance. You'll now get 3GB of data instead of 2GB for $40 and 7...

A Chromebook has a newer version of Android than almost every phone. If you want to check out the latest features for Android as soon as you can you know what phone to buy: The Pixel. But you still won't be able to check...

Hackers temporarily took over the Twitter account of the Bahraini foreign minister on Saturday, just 10 days after a cyber attack on the official news agency of neighbouring Qatar.

With typical theatrical flair, Steve Jobs in January of 2008 introduced the world to the MacBook Air, an incredibly compact laptop that, at the time, was touted as the thinnest laptop on the market. Apple's MacBook Air l...

To the relief of chemtrail conspiracy theorists, NASA's plan to create red and blue-green colored artificial clouds was postponed on Sunday morning. The clouds were expected to be visible for much of the East Coast and s...

Nearly half of all companies in the United States that use an Internet of Things (IoT) network have been affected by a security breach that has hurt annual revenue. The impact of insecure IoT networks comes from a survey...

Over the years, I've been fascinated by two kinds of events at Computex: eSports and extreme PC overclocking competitions. I doubt I'd ever make it as a professional gamer (I'm more of a Counter Fight kind of guy than a ...

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is being deployed to the ISS, and promises to yield some impressive scientific returns very soon. The post NASA is Planning to Test Pulsars as Cosmic Navigation Beac...

In the wake of Britain's third major attack in three months, Prime Minister Theresa May called on internet companies to do more to block extremist groups who use the web to recruit members and send coded messages.