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Meltdown and Spectre. Spectre, and Meltdown. The two vulnerabilities, both affecting computer processors across the globe, were disclosed on Jan. 3 and in the process sent manufactures scrambling to answer whether or not...

"How can you really compare these great events in the geologic past, which occur over such vast timescales, to what's going on today, which is centuries at the longest?" says Daniel Rothman professor of geophysics and co...

Amidst calls for Twitter to block President Trump for violating its terms of service, the company on Friday said it won't block world leaders.        

Panic Inc., the team behind a bunch of excellent iOS/Mac apps (like Coda, Transmit, and Prompt), are about to retire one of their products. Sometime “very soon”, Transmit for iOS will be taken off the App Store.

Putting solar panels into our roads isn’t the craziest idea, but we may as well admit that it poses some unique challenges. For instance, people may want to walk away with pieces of it. That’s what happened in China,...

Class action lawsuits have been filed in California, Indiana, and Oregon.

Facebook may soon begin exploring uses for cryptocurrency technology. The company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his annual personal memo on Thursday — mostly about being a better CEO — but one throwaway re...

Meltdown and Spectre are whipping the industry into a frenzy. Before you go into full panic mode, here are four things you need to know to at least keep your devices relatively safe from the CPU security flaws.

The Internet Association, a lobbying group for firms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, says it'll work with others filing suits against the FCC for repealing Obama-era internet protections.

Former President George H.W. Bush mourns the death of astronaut John Young

We're still a ways away from the official start of CES 2018, but the news is already starting to trickle out and everybody is setting up for the big show. And if the parking lot outside of the Las Vegas convention center...

Every time Juno swoops down, it comes within one Earth diameter of Jupiter--and the photos are worth the risk.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found intriguing structures on Mars that look like tiny, fossilized worm burrows -- but mission team members aren't claiming that the finds are evidence of life.

Upgrade the way you travel with the 90Fun Puppy1 Auto-Follow Suitcase. Like the name suggests, this special little suitcase actually follows you around just like a puppy. Syncing to your smartphone, the Puppy 1 autonomou...

When Apple made it’s $3 billion purchase of headphone maker Beats in 2014, its founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre joined the company as executives, overseeing the Apple Music and Beats 1 audio services. Now it’s being...

Meltdown and Spectre, dossier drama, and more of the week's top security news.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced Jan. 5 that NASA has confirmed that the company's Dream Chaser vehicle passed a key milestone during its November free flight test.

Every January, gadget firms make a splash at CES. But what happens to those products afterwards?

Space observations are crucial to solving the challenges presented by Earth's complex climate, which will play a pivotal role in humanity's success or demise, argued an extensive report by the U.S. National Academies.

HP announced that lithium-ion batteries in select notebooks and mobile workstations pose safety hazards, so it's issuing a voluntary recall. Here are the affected models and what to do.

Trehalose is a common food additive considered as 'safe' by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Is it linked to the increase in severity of a superbug epidemic?

Florida officials say hackers may have accessed the personal information and medical records of up to 30,000 Medicaid recipients two months ago.