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Google's Street View cars aren't just taking photos everywhere they go. Some are also gathering pollution data for use by city planners and scientists who're looking for ways to help improve the environment. The post Goo...

SEC pounds Ponzi prospectors ZenMiner and GAW Miners America's Securities and Exchange Commission has won its case against two bogus - and now shuttered - Bitcoin companies operated by Homero Joshua Garza....

We've all worried about artificial intelligence reaching a point in which its cognitive ability is so far beyond ours that it turns against us. But what if we just turned the AI into a spineless weenie that longs for our...

Codebreakers' work played a key role in the Allied invasion on D-Day -- and created the world that's led us to today's encryption battles.

Ahead of the launch of iOS 11, there were several signs suggesting 32-bit apps would no longer be supported in the new operating system, which has been confirmed with the release of the first iOS 11 beta. When attempting...

In a bid to heal its fractured company culture, Uber has hired Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei as its new SVP of leadership and strategy. According to the company’s announcement, Frei will report to CEO ...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a molecule in newborn hearts that appears to control the renewal process. When injected into adult mouse hearts injured by heart...

Alongside the debut of the first macOS High Sierra beta on Monday, Valve launched its own first beta of SteamVR for the Mac, giving early testers the ability to sample virtual reality experiences on compatible Macs.

Here in our own planetary system, humanity has spent the vast majority of its time studying planets that are rather chilly. Jupiter, Saturn, and even Mars range from cold to downright frigid. But now, researchers have di...

At Apple's WWDC 2017 Craig Federighi (aka Hair Force One) announced some pretty choice upgrades to Apple Pay--upgrades that put it in direct competition with Venmo, Square, Facebook, and Google.

Mophie has launched a new case for Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus that allows the phones to connect and charge to the Mophie's powerstation mini battery.

Patrik Karlsson, a 33-year-old ad designer living in rural Sweden, has been running the tiny but beloved site This is Not Porn for more than seven years. The site has a simple premise -- it's uh, not porn. It's a collect...

Getting Kodi set up on Android might take some time initially, but it's worth it in the long run. Update June 2017: Updated the section on using Kodi with Chromecast. Kodi is a powerful open source media center, which is...

Apple packed a bunch of cool new features into the new iOS 11 update coming later this year, but it's possible none of those are cooler than a simple screen capturing tool that makes it easier than ever to record videos ...

Follow us via live webstream on 8 June from 9:15 CEST for ESA's Grand Challenge Innovation Exchange to shape the future of resources management in space

News of an Ice and Fire event in Pokemon GO has the forums and Reddit stoked – now it’s time to get busy with the details. What we’re working with today is the assumption that the several-times-proven sources that ...

The original Punch Out may be heralded as a classic 8-bit NES game, but it's one I didn't play until I was in college. I'd heard it mentioned as I grew up but always dismissed it out of hand. Sports games, particularly t...

The solubility of any given substance--the measure of how well the substance dissolves into another substance referred to as the solvent--depends on basic properties like temperature and pressure, as well as the chemical...

A cell's plasma membrane forms a protective barrier, separating its inner contents from the outside environment. There is a pressing need to better understand the complex lipid bilayer that makes up this membrane, which ...

I visited the garment factory workers who could lose their jobs to automation. But could robots also change their lives?

The Ohio Supercomputer Center recently displayed the power of its new Owens Cluster by running the single-largest scale calculation in the Center's history.

Usage logs obtained by Muckrock show departments are cracking phones hundreds of times a year