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Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful storm, and even though it weakened significantly as it made its way towards landfall in Florida, the hurricane still caused an incredible amount of damage. NASA's Kennedy Space Ce...

Critical Apache Struts bug was fixed in March. In May, it bit ~143 million US consumers.

Commentary: A CNET employee took a picture of herself looking like a work of art. Here's how that photo traveled from her Instagram account to internet fame.

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. There are a lot of headphones out there, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed and settle on spending hundreds on Beats....

For small electronic devices and sensors like those found in wearables that can decipher biological information from sweat and contact lenses that can measure glucose levels, there are a couple of trade offs that limit t...

When ships are autonomous, the navy and other shipping industries won't need a crew onboard. That's what Rolls-Royce is working on with their autonomous naval vessel concept that plans to have a 3,500 nautical-mile range...

Martin Shkreli, the cancer drug price-jacking pharmaceutical executive and convicted securities fraudster for whom the moniker "Pharma Bro" is among his politer nicknames, will be behind bars a little earlier than antici...

New WSL feature in Windows 10 gives attackers a way to run malware without being detected by any current endpoint security tools, Check Point says.

A NASA engineer and 10 others are suing Customs and Border Protection over what they believe to be illegal searches of electronics. The group of 11 includes 10 U.S. citizens as well as a permanent resident, and they have...

All images by Maximilian Motel. Used with Creative Commons Permission. Photo manipulations and composites can be sensitive topics for some photographers, yet it’s a common method used by many to realize their creative ...

NGINX now offers a powerful web-based monitoring system, called Amplify. Here's how to get it up and running quickly.

Here’s a 2-minute video that offers a look at how the HBO series ‘Insecure’ makes its black actors look so good on camera. What is it that makes everyone “pop” so much on screen? “When I was in film school, n...

Three ex-Google engineers have banded together to launch what can only be described as a sort of replacement for a human PA, but one which can be used by a whole company to improve communications across the board. Bellgr...

Technology created by researchers at the University of Houston gives robotic hand a sense of touch.        

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of tril...

In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard follows bedroom drone engineer Zoe Stumbaugh as she attempts to build the fastest drone in world for an upcoming drone drag race.

About 800 years ago, a teenage soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man.

Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of the planet and als...

The price of silicon-based solar cells has been falling off a cliff for years now. In 1977, each watt of capacity for a silicon solar panel would cost you around $76. By 1987, that had dropped to $10. In 2017, according ...

As cool as they sound, quantum computers will probably not be best suited for designing websites or making pretty word processors. Instead, their quirky bits may one day be used to solve special algorithms, for artificia...

Limited edition and custom controllers have been hugely successful for all the current games consoles, with multiple colours and designs available from Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo alike.However, only one of those also...

Google has announced the Material Design Awards for 2017. These apps are the best of the best in terms of design and functionality. Check them out here.