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Some WeChat users in China will soon be able to use the chat app as a state-issued ID card. Financial Times reports that those living in Guangdong's capital city Guangzhou will be able to use facial recognition to link t...

Mars is now a dry, cold planet, but whether it once supported life is still an open question. On Earth, areas that once hosted long dried-up bodies of water have been a rich source of evidence of ancient life and because...

In fiscal 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook received a salary of $3.06 million plus $9.33 million in bonuses and stock worth $89.2 million for a total compensation package of approximately $102 million, reports Bloomberg. The dat...

Alpha Centauri, a star system located more than four light-years from Earth, has caught NASA’s eye in a big way. A Jet Propulsion Laboratory team wants to send a spacecraft to explore the system, though it will take de...

Want to destroy video evidence of a break-in, prevent ATMs from logging malware attacks, or simply shut down a critical computer system? One possible way to do that might be disrupting hard disk drives with sound waves, ...

It isn’t exactly easy to be a social media network here in a crowded 2017, and that’s especially true when Facebook owns the competition. Throughout the year, Facebook has been launching new features for Instagram, t...

The South Korean government announced new legislation today that would put increasingly tough regulations on the country’s burgeoning cryptocurrency markets. Under the legislation, Korea, which is the third largest mar...

Despite Russia's ambitious plans for space domination it's not had a great deal of luck bringing its designs to fruition. The Roscosmos program's budget was slashed in 2015 (because of "moral decay") and in April last ye...

In an interview at Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Singularity University faculty and speaker Dr. Divya Chander takes a look at how emerging technologies are letting us peer inside the human brain like never before. A...

Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers for Tesla feedback Tuesday, saying he wants to know how the auto and power company "can improve further."        

When Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo first reported earlier this year that Apple's then-unannounced iPhone X wouldn't have a Touch ID fingerprint sensor, almost no one believed him. I sure didn't. Apple had acquired AuthenTec...

A recently published paper suggests that life on Mars may have developed underground. Buzz60's Tony Spitz has the details.        

Google swears it won't start scraping websites that previously opted out of web crawling just because it can now legally go back to its old ways. Back in 2012, the tech titan promised to change its practices in several a...

Enjoy classic timekeeping and the latest technology in one with the Misfit Command Minimalist Hybrid Smartwatch. Sleek and stylish in equal measure, the Command is something special. This elegant timepiece has a stainles...

The Kremlin says authorities are looking into recent failures in Russia's space industry

Tik Root interviews Robert W. Lee, the great-great-great-great-nephew of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, about the uproar over statues of his ancestor.

Great white Mary Lee, who is with a transmitter, has not sent a ping since June.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s artificial intelligence chief describes the “ultimate” test for AI in space exploration --

HQ Trivia is coming to Android, Amazon Echo is the No. 1 best seller on the site and the founder of LeEco is ordered to return to China. All this on Crunch Report.

Smart wireless speakers, like those from Sonos or Bose, have totally changed how I listen to music. Forget sacrificing your phone to the 3.5mm jack, or *shiver* putting a CD into the stereo -- just fire up Spotify, find ...

Besting 2017 will be a challenge, but there are dozens of exciting 2018 games to keep on your radar in the coming year. Here are our picks for the 40 most anticipated games of 2018. The post These are the top 40 games we...

Finding a decent laptop is easy, but finding one under $1,000 is a bit tricky. Luckily, we've taken some of the guesswork out of picking out a budget laptop, here are some of our favorites, the best laptops under $1,000....