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An app meant to let parents monitor the phone activity of teenagers was until recently saving the latter's Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form, a report revealed on Sunday.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were designed to be efficient, low-friction alternatives to traditional financial systems. But it seems their creators maybe didn't think too hard about their sustainability. An analysis pub...

Widespread routers' DNS hijacking malware that recently found targeting Android devices has now been upgraded its capabilities to target iOS devices as well as desktop users. Dubbed Roaming Mantis, the malware was initia...

A chance lab discovery is opening up the possibility for wide-scale improvements in drug screening, application of selective painkillers, and selectively nuking cancer cells. The mystery material? Graphene, a semi-metal ...

Store-and-forward probe TESS warms up its cameras with a snap of 200,000 stars NASA's exoplanet-spotting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has successfully manoeuvred around Earth's moon....

The paper detailing the method is being outlined at a conference in Brisbane, Australia.

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McAfee researchers have discovered that hackers with links to the North Korean regime managed to make Google complicit in stealing information from defectors from the nation, as per a recent blog post. The post The Googl...

The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle captured the world’s attention this past weekend, and one particular photo received a huge amount of praise and viral popularity. Now the photographer has revealed de...

An Antares rocket launched from Virginia before sunrise this morning and is on its way to the International Space Station. Its 7,400 pounds of cargo include an experiment that will chill atoms to just about absolute zero...

A few days ago, a design detail in Android P public beta suggested the Pixel 3 will copy the iPhone X, just like most of this year's Android handsets. That wouldn't be surprising considering that when Android P rolls out...

Get ready to rumble. On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg will participate in another government hearing, this time with European officials. And the head of the EU parliament just announced that the meeting will be livestreamed. ...

Molecules that are involved in photosynthesis exhibit the same quantum effects as non-living matter, concludes an international team of scientists including University of Groningen theoretical physicist Thomas la Cour Ja...

Huawei’s MateBook X Pro, the MacBook-rivaling ultraportable notebook that proves the company can make some seriously impressive design, is now available in the US. Announced back at Mobile World Congress, the 13.9-inch...

This week, NVIDIA revealed that its researchers have developed a unique deep learning system that allows a robot to learn a task based on the actions of a human. The focus here is on the communication between the robot a...

Cupertino could introduce a tax that would charge Apple an additional fee based on its number of employees. The city has hired a firm to poll residents asking their thoughts on such a tax, and how it should be spent. At ...

Huawei's MateBook X Pro, one of the few Windows-based laptops that I find to be a worthy alternative to Apple's MacBook Pro, is now available in the U.S.  Rest of the world be warned, though: The U.S. price tags on this...

China just launched a spacecraft that will help pave the way for a historic mission to the moon's far side later this year.

A year and a half after the release of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti, PC gaming's budget champions, Nvidia has quietly launched a new graphics card that blends the two. Over the weekend, a 3GB GeForce GTX 1050 app...

Debate is raging in Ireland over whether to lift the country's decades-old ban on abortion

NASA's newly-launched TESS -- that stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in case you were wondering -- is an incredibly powerful piece of hardware. It was designed to hunt down planets from other planetary sys...

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