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Apple earlier this month asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to authorize the exclusion of a shareholder proposal that would tie the company's diversity efforts to CEO performance, an action that could negativel...

The FCC will not be voting this November on the adoption of the “Restoring Internet Freedom” rule that would roll back 2015’s Net Neutrality rules, contrary to recent rumors. In a blog post, Chairman Ajit Pai liste...

WhatsApp is rolling out a way for users to delete messages on their own devices, as well as recipients' devices, in an upcoming version of its app.

Bloodhound SSC, a British team that's planning on using a jet engine strapped to wheels to travel at 1,000mph, just hit an important milestone. The team hit 200mph during a first public test run on an airfield in south-w...

A team of European astronomers recently conducted the first use of AI to identify 56 new gravitational lenses from a mountain of survey data. The post An Artificial Intelligence Just Found 56 New Gravitational Lenses app...

An independent investigation has concluded that the debilitating cyberattack that crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service earlier this year could have been prevented with basic security measures.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos saw a $6.6 billion dollar increase in his fortune, tentatively putting him at number one on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. For more on the story here is Zach Devita        

A new prototype radio telescope has begun observing the universe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. Constructed by a team of scientists, engineers, carpenters, and students, the prot...

Japan is introducing a system that will allow tourists to use fingerprints for payments while traveling. The post Pay-by-fringerprint programme for tourists goes nationwide appeared first on Springwise.

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High-energy batteries, like the ones in your laptop and smartphone, can fail, which can cause them to overheat and even catch fire. A team of researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) , a technique that won the...

Sophia, the first humanoid robot to receive citizenship of a country, just made fun of Elon Musk in an interview. I won't blame you if end of the world scenarios pop into your mind. After all, the visionary behind SpaceX...

Saudi Arabia just made a non-human woman a citizen, making it the first country to grant a robot the right to citizenship, at least as far as we know. Why it did so isn’t immediately evident, but the irony of a nation ...

Hands-on with new Fujifilm X and GF lenses We're at the Photo Plus Expo show in New York, where Fujifilm is showing off its new XF 80mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR and GF 45mm F2.8 R WR prime lenses. First up is the snappily-named ...

Just a few minutes of microgravity is enough to change your brain. This suggests space tourists and long-haul astronauts may need to take precautions to think straight

Amateur paranormal investigators routinely claim that they've spotted signs of ancient alien civilizations in material published by NASA -- from "alien skulls" to structures that turn out to be nothing more than oddly-sh...

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Apple has quietly introduced an international warranty on iPhones sold within India. Previously, you could only get warranty repairs on phones bought within the country, but you’re now covered wherever it was bought. T...

A domestic property loses as much as 20% of its heat through windows. For big glassy commercial buildings, that figure is a lot higher, resulting in big heating bills and inevitable disputes among employees about the the...

Scientists from Stony Brook University have used a novel technique at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at Brookhaven National L...

Samsung's new "upcycling" initiative will allow you to put a completely new operating system on your old phones to give them new life.

The PhD thesis of perhaps the world's most famous living scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking, was recently made publicly available online. It has proved so popular that the demand to read it reportedly crashed its host ...