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October means baseball playoffs, Halloween and, for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 100 lunar days on the moon.

Windows 10's Fall Creators Update is full of changes, but one of the understated additions could make a big difference if you're a gamer. Microsoft has switched on its previously teased TruePlay feature, which promises t...

We're finally getting close, folks. Pre-orders for Apple's highly anticipated iPhone X will finally open up this coming Friday, with deliveries slated to begin just one week later on November 3. With the iPhone X release...

Apple made a few major changes to its iPhone lineup last month, but you probably missed one. There were the major announcements — an iPhone 8 and an iPhone X coming this fall — but the company also revised its iPhone...

Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion years earlier than scientists thought.

Bright, blue flashes stretch from the tops of powerful thunderstorms toward the edge of space, providing a fascinating celestial show for astronauts on the International Space Station.

Robocars headed for Manhattan will have to learn some new tricks. So will New Yorkers.

A former inmate is suing multiple people for failing to provide medical attention to his painful 91-hour erection. His ordeal began after taking an unidentified pill from a fellow inmate.

A few years ago, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) started developing what they eventually dubbed the "world's most rapid" allergy test. Now, that test has received the FDA's a...

Numerous medical devices, such as pacemakers, are at risk of being hacked, but the updates meant to protect these devices can occasionally cause them to malfunction, leading doctors in a difficult situation. The post Whe...

Former business partner says Scoble plans tocancel public activities for the rest of the year while he attends AA and consults a psychiatrist.        

Earlier this month, Vice President Mike Pence made NASA's new goal clear: the space agency is tasked with sending humans to the surface of the Moon again, this time to create a foundation for deep space missions. Though ...

At some point in the future--and in some ways we are already seeing this--the amount of physical stuff moving around the world will peak and begin to decline. By "stuff," I am referring to liquid fuels, coal, containers ...

Adobe and Microsoft have both sunset the technologies. But websites still use them.        

The November 3rd release date of the iPhone X is drawing closer, and eager Apple fans are getting ready to make their pre-orders as early as possible this Friday, along with sweating over reports about the limited suppli...

Back at this year’s E3, Microsoft revealed that the Xbox One would be getting backwards compatibility with certain games from the original Xbox. We’re still waiting on an official date for the feature to go live, but...

Canon G1 X Mark III vs Sony RX100 V The year is 2017. Smartphones have rendered the $200 compact obsolete, and they're creeping up on $500 interchangeable lens cameras. Things look bleak. But lo! Camera manufacturers hav...

D-Wave system shows quantum computers can learn to detect particle signatures in mountains of data, but doesn’t outpace conventional methods — yet --

You might not need an extensive sensor network or a host of volunteers to detect earthquakes in the future -- in fact, the lines supplying your internet access might do the trick. Researchers have developed technology th...

Straight? Gay? Bisexual? He may be 186 years old, but the years have clearly done little to quell the sexual appetite of Jonathan, the famous giant tortoise who resides on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena.

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is reportedly planning on creating a foldable smartphone to challenge the offerings from ZTE and Samsung. The device is expected to launch next year. The post Huawei may be releasing a fol...

Need $1,000? Google has announced that it's going to pay developers who can spot security vulnerabilities in some apps available on the Play Store. The program includes remote-code-execution vulnerabilities and proof of ...