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Significant eclipses throughout history have taken place on Aug. 21, just like the total solar eclipse that will cross the U.S. this summer.

There are good insects, and then there are bad bugs. And the folks at Seattle-based Intellectual Ventures Lab (IVL) have been working on a device that will only kill pests and leave the others unharmed. It's called the P...

Windows 10 Insiders can now download SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE from the Windows Store.

There's been a lot of speculation around whether Mark Zuckerberg is or is not planning to run for office. From his nationwide tour to his rejection of atheism, there have been quite a few moments that could be interprete...

Amazon is making Alexa a bit more sophisticated with new support for hands-free intercom functionality, enabling the various Echo devices to be used as an intercom system throughout your home. The support is available on...

Before Nintendo unveiled the Switch, its new hybrid game console, to the world, it re-released an old one. The NES Classic Edition was an adorably small box of nostalgia packed with some of the best games for Nintendo's ...

Nintendo's sales strategy for the NES Classic Edition was frustrating, to put it mildly. It shipped so few systems that they sold out almost immediately, and killed the product despite loads of pent-up demand. Will it le...

Mario could be this year's big winner at the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2017, as he is nominated in four categories with his new Rabbid friends and in three of his own with Super Mario Odyssey. The post Mario and Ra...

Cozmo, last year's coolest toy robot, is now easier than ever to program with the launch of Anki's visual Code Lab language. It's a built-in tool that teaches kids the fundamentals of robotics. The post Cozmo visual Code...

In April, Google introduced a revamped, reimagined version of Google Earth, which included a number of new features that go beyond visualizing the planet through the use of maps and satellite imagery, to also allow users...

An international team of researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, fabricated an atomically thin material and measured its exotic and durable...

Physicists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are seeing an everyday phenomenon in a new light.

A hack that locked MPs out of their parliamentary email accounts over the weekend could have been easily stopped by more following basic security practices

A recent Intel report claims that the passenger economy created by the introduction of driverless cars will reach $7 trillion by 2050. Experts weigh in on what it means for the business market.

Jon Larsen proved that micrometeorites can be found in urban areas. And he also offers the world its first real glimpse of them.

Panodora’s chief executive and co-founder Tim Westergren intends to hand over the reins at the company, according to a report in Recode citing people familiar with the company’s plans.

The co-founder of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy is set to be sentenced in a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed more than 60 people and sickened hundreds more

A former pharmaceutical CEO who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving medication 5,000 percent can't keep quiet ahead of his fraud trial

Australia says tech companies should be "thwarting" messaging encryption to stop terrorists, and it's pushing US companies in particular.

After graduating from college in 1994, I spent a few years at McKinsey & Co. – a young kid in an ill-fitting suit naively but energetically attempting to convince experienced and jaded managers to do their jobs differe...

The wireless anti-poaching collar for vulnerable animals in Africa combines tracking and gunshot detection technology to help authorities fight the battle against poaching in real-time.

The opioid epidemic in the United States have become so bad, librarian in at least three cities now learn how to treat drug addicts who overdose with Narcan. One librarian has saved at least six people since April.