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The most massive galaxies in our neighbourhood formed their stars billions of years ago, early in the history of the universe. At the present day, they produce very few new stars. Astronomers have long believed that is b...

A 14-year old boy in Missouri who appeared to choke on a ham and cheese sandwich turned out to have a rare immune condition that can injure the esophagus.

IBM has reported its first quarter of revenue growth since 2012 as the company ramps up its cloud computing business and looks for new opportunities from its investments in artificial intelligence

Apple announced this morning it’s bringing its “Everyone Can Code” program to 70 more colleges and universities across Europe. The program, which Apple designed to help students learn how to build apps, launched in...

Apple has to pay $16 billion in back taxes to Ireland as the European Commission had said it received unfair, preferential treatment. The company will start paying around March, but it's still appealing the E.C.'s ruling...

A Senate committee voted on party lines Jan. 18 to advance the nominations of individuals to lead NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although with no clear indication of when, or if, they will ...

Apple‘s confirmation that it slows older iPhones with aging lithium-ion batteries kicked off a round of severe criticism around the world, with many tossing around accusations of planned obsolescence, among other thing...

New details about Triton malware should put industrial systems and critical infrastructure on notice.

The Tide Pod Challenge is the latest nasty thing that's gone viral amongst The Teens. You've probably heard about it by now, but if you didn't here's the gist of it: Teenagers challenge each other to bite into those tiny...

Titan--Saturn's largest moon--is remarkable in that it features a dense atmosphere and stable liquid at the surface. The only other place in the solar system with these particular characteristics is, you guessed it, Eart...

A researcher has conducted an analysis of Jenkins servers and found that many of them leak sensitive information, including ones belonging to high-profile companies. London-based researcher Mikail Tunç used the Shodan s...

Things just went from bad to worse real quick. On Monday, January 15, OnePlus announced on its forums that some customers had reported fraudulent activity on credit and debit cards used for purchases on oneplus.net. It w...

Astronaut Jeanette Epps, slated to be the first African-American crew member on board the International Space Station, will not be flying in 2018, according to an NASA announcement.

"I'm not just a nerd," proclaims a bespectacled 13-year-old named Thea, speaking into a microphone on stage. "I'm also a geek." The audience laughs.

If you thought Apple's iOS 11 App Store redesign was overdue, the tech giant is now finally getting round to updating its web interface. The overhaul borrows from the iOS 11 revamp, offering a clean look, with larger ima...

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are likely to be breathing a little easier in Europe after getting a pat on the back from regional lawmakers for making “steady progress” on removing illegal hate speech.

Google has started rolling out a patch that will prevent Cast-enabled devices from killing your WiFi connection. Multiple complaints reported over the past few weeks revealed that Android devices' Cast feature suffers fr...

MIT researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them in ways that could be used to test thousands of reactions in parallel.

Apple's got one idea for next-gen photo tech, but a rival technology based on the new AV1 video compression tech could go a step farther.

One of Google's standout features has been left to die, and that's sad to see. Google Now used to be really useful. It used to be so good that I only used Google Now Launcher on every phone because I needed to have Googl...

If they can get traction, it will make small gains towards closing the digital divide.

Mars is very much en vogue right now. NASA is focused on exploring Mars, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars, and astronomers all around the world want to learn more about Earth's nearest neighbor. The discovery ...