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Cybercriminals who ran off with info on five million debit and credit cards from Saks Fifth Avenue (including its discount brand) and Lord & Taylor databases appear to be preparing to sell them on the dark web, according...

At CES 2018, Canon unveiled three specialized CMOS sensors: an ultra-high resolution 120MP APS-H sensor, a 5MP Global Shutter sensor, and a 19μm Full HD sensor capable of shooting 100fps Full HD in extremely low light. ...

What goes up must come down, especially if you don't remain in orbit. That is the fate that befell China's first space station attempt which the country simply told the rest of the world "ceased to function". While there...

With a thriving black market, smuggling iPhones from Hong Kong into China can be quite lucrative, and an enterprising gang came up with an audacious scheme that involved aerial drones and a really long cable. The post Sm...

Android: The Pixel 3 probably won't be official until October (when Google typically announces its latest flagship phones), but you can bring a bit of the rumored device to your current Android handset right now. All you...

Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens --

A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb.

There may be new smart version of use about every device we use, but most of the lights and small appliances we already have in our homes are still too "dumb" to connect to our smart systems. To bring them up to speed, s...

Just three days after sending 10 communications satellites into orbit from California, SpaceX is launching again, this time out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The company is launching one of its previously flown Falcon 9 ro...

Parachutes may just help us get to Mars. A few days ago, the European Space Agency tested its ExoMars landing parachutes for the first time, and happily, the trial parachute made it to ground without incident. The post E...

Festo's latest robotic creature is a semi-autonomous "flying fox."

The voice assistant's new skill may lay the groundwork for payments to friends and family.

It shouldn't need to be said, but don't try this at home. Just don't.

With an ever-growing list of security and compliance requirements, security can hinder or slow business initiatives. Is your security department stuck in slow gear or can it go faster?

Surveillance memes are everywhere because it feels like surveillance is everywhere.

Pounced.org is down, citing the passage of a controversial sex-trafficking bill last week.

Before two deadly nuclear mishaps, scientists used to risk "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon." An Object Lesson.

The Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Facebook accusations over the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign, and to a lesser extent between CA and the UK's Brexit VoteLeave campaign, are -- if proven true -- morally reprehen...

A company called Nectome is developing a technology designed to preserve the brain so the human mind can be uploaded to supercomputers in the future.

The other night, I was at dinner, and conversation turned to space exploration and to the earliest days of Soviet Russia's Sputnik and Lunik satellite launches. What followed was a story so unbelievable, I had to do some...

Cloudflare Launches Globally Available Secure Free DNS Resolver Cloudflare launched a new free service, designed to improve both the speed and the security of the internet, on April Fool's Day (4/1/2018). But this is no ...

Bring classrooms to life with the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 Chrome OS Tablet. This tablet combines planned support for Google Expeditions AR and easy administration to provide students and staff with a better experience. Us...