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(Reuters) - The owner of the Ashley Madison adultery website said on Friday it will pay $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users whose personal details were exposed in a July ...

Instagram? Messenger? WhatsApp? Stories? Facebook has a cash cow. It's called News Feed, and for the past five years, it has been the company's core money maker and source of revenue growth. But there is a problem loomin...

High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced Scientists have managed to create powerful supersonic shock waves - comparable to those generated in space - under laboratory conditions....

Samsung's Galaxy S8 is one of the best flagship handsets of the year, and because it's a few months old, it's already ripe for some hot deals. Groupon has one offer that brings the Galaxy S8 into OnePlus 5 territory. For...

Apple is reportedly limiting App Store distribution of VPN/root certificate-based ad blockers capable of blocking adds in other third-party apps, and will instead support only first-party content blockers offered through...

It might not be a planet anymore, but Pluto is still a pretty interesting place. It's a rocky world covered in a thick layer of water ice and frozen nitrogen, and it's close enough that we can study it with relative ease...

AlphaBay, a Dark Web marketplace for illegal drugs and other underground goods, has been down since early last week. Now, it appears the cause of the shutdown was an international effort from law enforcement that nabbed ...

The USA's best total solar eclipse ever is coming on August 21, starting on the West Coast in Oregon and exiting on the East Coast in South Carolina.        

This month's buyer's guide additions fill almost every product category: We've got a smartphone, VR headset, games console, notebook and a 2-in-1. Those last two both come from Microsoft in the form of the Surface Laptop...

This week on Radio Motherboard, we try and get to the bottom of what cryptocurrency enthusiasts believe.

Shooting film is fun and developing film is fun, but tediously scanning film is not fun… so I built myself a film-digitizing light box to be used with a flash and a 1:1 macro lens. I’m a home-developer because I’m ...

Samsung's Gear VR is an impressive virtual reality viewer, but viewing 360 videos and pictures on it isn't as easy as it could be. Here's how to watch YouTube on a Gear VR, as well as Facebook, Vimeo, and more. The post ...

Chinese scientists have just shattered a record in teleportation. They sent the quantum state of a photon from the ground in Tibet to a satellite in orbit, 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.

The U.K. has launched its first 24-hour "Drone Unit" to help fight crime and perform other police work from the skies. The team of trained officers is using DJI Inspire drones fitted with a variety of cameras. The post U...

An all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan have arrived in Washington following a last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump

What lengths would you go to snap the perfect selfie? Would you be willing to bend your neck at an awkward angle? Of course you would. What about posing in a public place, with onlookers rolling their eyes? Sure, why not...

Google rolled out a new look and feel for two-factor authentication earlier this year, and soon it will encourage people still using the text message-based system to try it out. Google Prompt pops up a notification on au...

The robotic racing series Roborace is still somewhat of a pipe dream that aims to become the "world's first self-driving racing series." On Friday, we got our first in-person look at the 200-mph vehicle that will eventua...

Scientists have long held the belief that planets - including Earth - were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view....

The next time you watch a big blockbuster sci-fi film like Alien: Covenant, you can thank the original pulp magazines. The written form of the popular genre got its start in comic book-sized magazines like Amazing Storie...

Apple recently bought ‘tens of millions’ of dollars worth of production equipment for the iPhone 8, according to tipsters, and it is leasing that equipment to its suppliers in an effort to make sure vital components ...

When the internet security company Cloudflare decided to engage in all-out war with what it calls a “dangerous new breed of patent troll,” it found a receptive audience with Eric Lesser, who became the youngest state...