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Billionaire whiz kid Elon Musk, who last year announced his plan to send a group of astronauts either incredibly brave or incredibly eager to get off this dumb planet to colonize Mars, is poised to give a big update on t...

A frigid comet moves through the solar system and makes a spectacle of itself in an impressive Hubble Space Telescope image.

Designed for smartphones, the Quadralite A1 combines the functionality of a flash, LED lamp, and a wireless trigger. Promising to "transform your smartphone into a professional studio camera," the Quadralite A1 acts as a...

It's harvest season in many parts of the world, but on one farm in the United Kingdom, robots -- not humans -- are doing all the heavy lifting.

The Federal Aviation Administration says drones can't fly within 400 feet of the boundaries of the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and other sites.

The Statue of Liberty and other monuments declared as no-drone zones; Aston Martin unveils designs for submarines.

ICANN, the overseer of the Internet's namespace, announced this week that it was postponing a scheduled change to the cryptographic key that protects the Domain Name System.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has some "big freaking" plans for his latest rocket project.        

The brain has long inspired the design of computers and their software. Now Intel has become the latest tech company to decide that mimicking the brain's hardware could be the next stage in the evolution of computing. On...

Apple is not only interested in chip production for the iPhone and iPad, but developing its own CPU for laptops, modems for the iPhone, and its own touchscreen processing system, a new report claims.

The OontZ Angle 3 Next Generation Ultra Portable Bluetooth Speaker flies off the virtual store shelves each and every time we cover it here on the site, and there’s a good reason for that: it’s awesome. This Amazon b...

Ring is the trend-setter and market leader in smart, connected video doorbells. Not only do such devices provide the ability to communicate with delivery drivers when you're not at home, they're relatively affordable mot...

The unmanned Parker Solar Probe, which is slated for liftoff next year, will be mankind's first-ever visit to our nearest star.        

Making sure fresh food is kept at the right temperature during transit is a harder problem than one might think — but the Swiss are on the job. Not only did they create robo-fruit to mix in with the real ones, but anot...

U.S. Army officials went to Capitol Hill this week seeking lawmakers' approval to stop buying satellite communications systems that are susceptible to jamming and shift funds to more modern alternatives. SpaceNews.com

IMF chief Christine Lagarde conceded that digital currencies, such as bitcoin, don't currently pose a major threat to the status quo.        

Walmart is placing a big bet on React Native. With Electrode, the company’s Walmart Labs division open sourced the React-based framework that powers Walmart.com’s frontend and today the same group is also launching E...

Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.

Nintendo has revealed that it will be shutting down one of the cornerstones of Wii: the Wii Shop channel. The good news is that the shut down isn’t going to happen for a while yet, though Nintendo will begin winding it...

Mercedes-Benz is working with an e-commerce startup and a drone maker to test a delivery system that uses both drones and vans to get goods to consumers.

When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB or 1TB hard drive with a...

Some former astronauts have a message for flat-Earther B.o.B: The curve is real, and we've seen it.