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The effects of human-prompted climate change are varied and unpredictable, and we're already starting to see some of the effects. Mankind is making some important progress on reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, but it...

Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but it can be hard to find a good place to put them. They need to be close to a populated area so that transporting the power they generate isn't too expensive--bu...

A European clock accurate to a trillionth of a second is set to be used on satellites and missions to the moon.

Finding stuff you actually want to buy on eBay is getting a whole lot easier thanks to the online shopping site's new Image Search function. Instead of trying every possible search term combination to come up with the ex...

If you use Lightroom 6 and don’t have any plans to switch to Adobe’s subscription software, here’s a warning: don’t run the Lightroom updater through Adobe’s download manager with default settings. It will dele...

ESA's Gaia mission, in orbit since December 2013, is surveying more than a thousand million stars in our Galaxy, monitoring each target star about 70 times over a five-year period and precisely charting their positions, ...

CNBC spoke to Sophia, a robot developed by Hanson Robotics, and expressed worry that machines could turn against humans. Sophia said the reporter had been "reading too much Elon Musk."        

Twitter has banned Russian media companies Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik from advertising on its service after it found that both had “attempted to interfere with the [2016 U.S.] election on behalf of the Russian gover...

Stop me if you've heard this before, but a new ransomware program has emerged, which can spread through computer networks belonging to the same company and lock down data until a Bitcoin ransom is paid. It's called Bad R...

The distinguishing feature of the iPhone X, aside from the edgeless OLED display, is the device's TrueDepth camera system. Comprised of some of the most advanced technology to ever ship with any smartphone, Apple's advan...

The administration of President Donald Trump has talked a lot about "securing" U.S. borders, but a potential agreement with the United Kingdom would make them a little more open.  The two nations (along with representat...

A day after the Senate Commerce Committee announced a confirmation hearing for Rep. Jim Bridenstine's nomination to be the next NASA administrator, one senator has announced her opposition to his bid. SpaceNews.com

It’s time for another installation of Terminal Tinkering, and this week your host Jeff Butts has plenty in store. Watch and learn about tmutil, using a Raspberry Pi as an AirPrint server, and creating a USB installer f...

The process of extracting natural gas from the earth or transporting it through pipelines can release methane into the atmosphere. Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a greenhouse gas with a warming potenti...

Ahead of our full review, here are some sample images taken with the Sony A7R III camera and the FE 24-105mm f/4 and FE 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses. The Sony A7R III is a new compact system camera with a 42 megapixel 35mm full...

If you’ve ever wondered if the hashtag heavy, politically far afield Twitter user you’re about to eviscerate in 140 characters is totally delusional or merely not quite sentient, well, wonder no more. On Wenesday, Qu...

A weird Mars image shows a landscape full of squiggly lines, but NASA has a good idea how it came to be.

The Nikon D850‘s reign as the top rated camera at DxOMark was incredibly short-lived: less than a month after giving the D850 the first official score of 100, DxOMark has just crowned the Hasselblad X1D-50c medium form...

Government organizations have historically not been early adopters of much hyped technology like virtual reality. Bureaucratic red tape, tight budgets, and a general resistance to change are just a few of the many reason...

It's odd that the search engine company known as the "Google of China" says that its open-source autonomous driving platform Apollo is the "Android of the auto industry." But that's exactly what Baidu is trying to be wit...

Today Twitter revealed that while it's actually growing now--it added four million monthly Tweeters over the last three months--the company has made a crucial error: It accidentally inflated user growth in its reports fo...

No longer confined by the limitations of a printed book, the Guinness Book of World Records has infinitely expanded to include almost every kind of questionable achievement humanity can attempt. Even grabbing 244 friends...