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Bitcoin is the oldest cryptocurrency, and its open-source underpinnings are at the core of all its competitors. Over 900 alternatives now challenge it. Can any of them hope to dethrone the king? The post Everyone is craz...

When it comes to climate change, government leaders and politicians must begin to think beyond their term limits and lifetimes. They must ask themselves not how they can serve their voters, but rather how they can contri...

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ATLAS is an incredible machine. There's no way around that. First unveiled in 2013, the humanoid robot can now walk around autonomously, move boxes around, and implicitly threaten to destroy humanity. This level of sophi...

Patients with sleep disorders could be studied nonintrusively at home using wireless signals.

It wasn't so long ago that we were celebrating Virgin Galactic's return to the skies after a two-year hiatus. Just three months later, the company has completed its sixth glide flight. The post Virgin Galactic’s sixth ...

Elon Musk's Tesla vehicles are winning praise for innovative tech and overall design, but mileage (will it run out of juice?) is still the major concern for many electric car newbies.  But some of those concerns are get...

A Tennessee man also must pay restitution of nearly $172,400 to his former employer after hacking into its systems to gain an edge for his new company.

My name is Elliott Verdier, and I’m a French photographer who recently returned home from Kyrgyzstan. I spent four months making a portrait of the country with a 4×5 analog large format camera. Four months in Kyrgyzst...

Photo ops of SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son sometimes show him chatting happily with his company's humanoid robot, the childlike Pepper, or grinning as President Donald Trump heaps praise on him for creating Amer...

IBM Corp. owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company's failed effort to automate much of the state's welfare services, a judge has ruled in a long-running dispute.

US firm AquaBounty Technologies says that its transgenic fish has hit the market after a 25-year wait --

There are now over 3 billion (!!!) people logging onto social media accounts around the world, meaning that almost half of the world's population spends at least part of their day updating their status or story.  A new ...

Apple on Monday created an official account on Facebook's Instagram, leveraging it for a long-running campaign promoting the iPhone's camera technology.

SES plans to launch its SES-11 satellite, also known as EchoStar 105, as soon as late September from Cape Canaveral. The first stage that will be used on launch is likely the Falcon 9 that first flew in February to send ...

With Trump in the White House, former staffers continue to press their positions --

France and Germany are looking to stop tech companies like Apple from exploiting tax loopholes in their respective countries. The loopholes are said to have allowed Apple to "minimize taxes and grab market share" at the ...

Faraday Future recently abandoned plans to build its own tailor-made factory from scratch in Nevada, and now it’s signed a lease on a new ready-made production facility in Hanford, Calif. The switch in strategy reflect...

Apple’s HomePod firmware is the gift that keeps on giving. When the company shared an early build of the speaker firmware, many developers started digging around the strings in a library file to find hints about the ne...

You can livestream the eclipse on August 21, but that doesn't compare to seeing it in real life. A website (whose URL features the moon and sun emoji ) helps you plan out your solar eclipse day by telling you about offic...

Five years after touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover mission is still making big discoveries.

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images and a 4K movie taken with a full production version of the new Leica TL2 compact system camera and the Super-Vario-Elmar-T 11-23mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH lens. The Leica TL2 ...