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Sierra Nevada Corporation is expected to perform a second glide test of its Dream Chaser vehicle as soon as next week, according to comments from a NASA official. SpaceNews.com

Supernovae are some of the brightest and most energetic events in our galaxy. These occur when stars that have much greater mass than that of our sun explode; they become incredibly bright, and then slowly fade over the ...

Decomposition is the biggest issue when spoofing biometric ID. A rotting body changes shape, including the fingers, distorting the fingerprints.        

As part of its newly updated App Store in iOS 11, Apple is introducing a new "This Weekend Only" feature for the "Today" section, which will see the company offering "new ways to save" with apps. Apple will introduce an ...

Companies are starting to propose functioning exoskeletons for real applications, from soldier support to helping paraplegic patients walk. But they could also be customized to help everyday workers with their harder tas...

What good are 280 characters if you have to shout them from a measly 20-character display name? Just two days following the surprise announcement that Twitter would be doubling the character count allowed per tweet, the ...

Commentary: Two Chicago lawmakers propose a huge fine for those who text while strolling. That would be almost everyone, right?

The scale of land reclamation in the semi-autonomous territory is revving up to unprecedented heights.

When Airbnb acquired and subsequently shut down Tilt — a platform that let people pool together to pay for items or events — many (including former Tilt employees) were left wondering what could and would replace it....

Researchers from Empa have developed a flexible material that generates electricity when stressed. In future, it might be used as a sensor, integrated into clothing or even implanted in the human body, for instance, to p...

It's terrifyingly easy to just make stuff up online these days, such is life in the post-truth era. But recent advancements in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have compounded the issue exponentiall...

From CNET Magazine: Americans get more than 2.4 million robocalls each month. In this edition of Ask Maggie, we tell you how to stem the flood to your mobile devices.

IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it’s releasing 20-qubit quantum computers,...

Audeze, by virtue of its alphabetical priority and consistently high-quality sound, is one of the first boutique headphone brands you learn about as you begin your journey down the audiophile rabbit hole. One of the Cali...

The Game Awards, created in 2014 and produced by Geoff Keighley, is like the gaming equivalent of the Emmys or Oscars. The show airs live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on December 7th, and you can stream it o...

The Chinese company is three years old, and it took off like a rocket. Now it may have slowed. Three years ago, Musical.ly didn't exist. Now the app, which lets teens make videos of themselves lip-syncing, is set to sell...

Surface features on Ceres -- -- and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think. A recent study analyzed Ceres' surface features to reveal clues about the dwarf planet's interior evolution. Spe...

YouTube has increasingly faced criticism for a large library of bizarre videos collectively dubbed the ‘ElsaGate’ collection. These videos feature keyword-stuffed titles that seem to be aimed at luring in as many cli...

XCOR Aerospace, a company that for nearly 20 years had been working on rocket engines and a suborbital spaceplane, filed for bankruptcy Nov. 8 after it was unable to line up new investors. SpaceNews.com

The Fractured But Whole isn't the only South Park game arriving this fall: Ubisoft and RedLynx have released South Park: Phone Destroyer, the Android and iOS title teased back at E3. Think of it as Hearthstone meets Herb...

Short-staffed cybersecurity teams contribute to data breaches and cyberattacks levied against their organizations, a survey finds.

Some iPhone X owners are reporting an unusual issue in which the phone’s display becomes unresponsive or laggy when the handset is exposed to a cold environment. The biggest example of this seems to be someone stepping...