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Coding is all the rage at primary school and beyond as parents and teachers show how keen they are to teach children the value of learning how the technology around us works.Coding toys and robots range vastly in their a...

Three-dimensional shapes fill physical space in a certain way. If you pour marbles into a jar, the marbles will randomly pack within the jar. If you carefully placed every marble, layer-by-layer in the jar such that the ...

Nokia develops a new chipset that can halve the size of 5G antennas and boost capacity.

You know those scenes in films or TV where someone in a casino gets flooded by coins, usually because of a slot machine malfunction? The scenario may now be happening in real life but with far worrying consequences. Not ...

The current flu season is shaping to be one of the worst according to the CDC. Brace for more weeks of this fierce epidemic that has spread across 49 states and has affected more than 80,000 people.

The 2018 Oscars awards show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs live on ABC Network on March 4. Here's how to watch the 90th Academy Awards live stream online.

Facebook announced on January 11 that it would change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family over public content. Say goodbye to never-ending sponsored posts from Tasty, CNN, and other brands...

Each Monday we're tackling one of your pressing personal finance questions by asking a handful of money experts for their advice. If you have a general question or money concern, or just want to talk about something PeFi...

Within the emerging field of spin-based electronics, or spintronics, information is typically defined by the orientation of the magnetization of ferromagnets. Researchers have recently been also interested in the utiliza...

Saying China is poised to become the global leader in 5G and AI, the US government has suggested mandating 5G standards to protect its physical and virtual borders, as well as working with allies to deploy 5G in developi...

Last year, a Reddit user known as "deepfakes" used machine learning to digitally edit the faces of celebrities into pornographic videos, and a new app has made the process much easier to create and spread the videos onli...

To prepare for an eventual trip to the moon, Chinese volunteers in Beijing have reportedly spent 200 continuous days living together in a special "lunar lab" to simulate conditions. The post Chinese students spent a reco...

The spectrum of reactions to the new HomePod ranges from “superbly Apple,” to “Doesn’t stand a chance.” Friday’s Particle Debris points to three articles that span the expected range of media coverage. Pick y...

A new study lays the scientific groundwork for the use of PD-1 inhibitors with an aggressive form of brain cancer, namely supratentorial pediatric ependymoma.

Scientists have identified a new genetic mutation that alters the function of cryopyrin and leads to a life-long periodic inflammation of the cornea, the transparent window of the human eye. Patients who carry the mutati...

T-Mobile is expected to save $100 million in energy costs over the next 15 years. T-Mobile often markets itself as the Un-Carrier in the United States, and now the company is aiming to position itself as the Un-Non-Renew...

Apple’s new HomePod speaker might be the dumbest smart-speaker on the market. Based on early reviews and leaked info, it appears that Apple has seriously crippled Siri on the new HomePod speaker and removed some featur...

As one of the worst flu seasons in years continues to sicken people across the U.S., one of its most striking aspects are the untimely deaths it's caused: A 21-year-old bodybuilder; a 12-year-old boy; a 40-year-old marat...

Over the past few months, the internet has found a creepy new hobby: using artificial intelligence to paste the faces of celebrities onto porn videos. The technology has some disturbing implications, especially with rega...

This is one crayon you're not likely to find in a Crayola box anytime soon.

The first bitcoin transaction ever was by man who bought two pizzas. That arrangement would be worth over a $100 million today. Regret was baked into Bitcoin from the beginning. Last year, somewhat inexplicably, Bitcoin'...

German high-end carmaker BMW said Monday it had bought partner Sixt's share in car-sharing platform DriveNow, stoking speculation a merger with a competing service from Daimler may lie ahead.