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Eggs over easy? Skates warm their egg cases with thermal vents.

Despite massive blood-letting in the cryptocurrency markets over the past few weeks, the pace of brands just announcing some kind of ambiguous "blockchain" venture in hopes they can send their stock prices skyrocketing h...

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a world where semiconductor consolidation is the norm, it's not often that a new player enters the field. Even fabless semiconductor companies have been the target of mergers and acquisitions (Q...

(Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY) In the cover-story paper published in today's Nature Electronics, researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of Ne...

Previous microcode update was reported to cause unwanted system reboots.

Weeks ago, a disturbing subreddit called “deepfakes” featuring adult content edited using artificial intelligence went viral. The content seemingly featured popular actresses (and the occasional actor) in adult movie...

The social network's executive chairman said he's stepping away from daily duties at Reddit, but said he believes Reddit is in good shape.

The fight against online hate speech and harassment continues to gain momentum. Twitter's new policies against such behavior went live last November, while Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg began the new year with a new pledge ...

Normally when people talk about Zeiss, it's regarding the company's optics business -- which has been around for more than a century. However, Zeiss is making inroads into the VR space as well. Last year, the company int...

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Last Sunday at the BodyHacking Con in Austin, Aaron Traywick joined the rarefied ranks of those who have experimented on themselves in the name of science. Only Traywick is not a scientist--he is the CEO of Ascendance Bi...

You probably have this image of the circle of life in your head where a zebra eats a plant, a lion eats the zebra, the lion dies and fertilizes the soil, and then new plants grow. I mean, that sort of happens, but have y...

Reading Time: 4 minutesGoogle is about to make a hard push with Chromebooks. Chromebooks have had back-to-back holiday quarters in the US where Chromebooks were one of the bright spots regarding growth. Google seems to b...

Apple News will be a go-to source for coverage of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which officially begin with Friday's opening ceremony, although some competition is already underway. A new sec...

Because there are not enough ways to get around major cities and campuses, Spin is working to launch stationless electric scooter-sharing. These aren’t the electric scooters you see in San Francisco, operated by Scoot ...

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Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not emit light and are therefore invisible to the human eye. The...

The source code the the heavily-guarded iOS iBoot system has leaked on GitHub, bringing with it a major headache for Apple.

Watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is recommending that journalists operating out of China either close or migrate their iCloud accounts by the end of the month, as Apple is on the verge of transferrin...

HackerOne's 2018 report details ethical hackers' motivations, income, demographics, educational backgrounds, and more. It also notes why some white hat hackers don't report vulnerabilities.

Microsoft's latest Insider Preview update is a huge one, and for Windows 10 S users, it means being able to ditch system passwords. The tech giant is testing the ability to unlock the security-focused Windows flavor thro...

Remember a few months ago when an Apple engineer casually posted an internal HomePod build that contain plenty of iPhone X secrets? That was Apple's most significant leak in history... until this week when someone shared...