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Instant Articles and live videos didn't stick. What about made-for-Facebook news shows? For years, Facebook has tried, and failed, to find a business model that rewards news publishers for distributing their content on t...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet for a long, long time. Back in March it tallied its 2,000th Martian day, which is 2,054 Earth days, and despite some drilling woes that have since been solved, the p...

If you're looking for a security system that goes beyond an annoying alarm, then the Owl may be the solution to watch your car on and off the road. But is it worth the cost compared to other vehicle tracking products? Th...

Most of the time, we barely notice the lamp posts, bollards and road signs around us. They're street clutter that barely registers in our brain as we go about our busy lives. But Oddviz, an art and design collective from...

According to a new study by a team of astronomers, globular clusters are several billion years younger than previously thought. The post Globular Clusters Might not be as Old as Astronomers Thought. Like, Billions of Yea...

The council, backed by a research program, discusses the legal and ethical issues that go with data use and artificial intelligence.

Tesla owners will soon be able to give Autopilot a try — for free.  That's what Elon Musk said at the electric car company's annual shareholder meeting in Silicon Valley Tuesday afternoon. SEE ALSO: Tesla's Autopilot ...

In a pre-clinical study, researchers show that V2a interneurons could one day help paralyzed patients breathe without a ventilator.

What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two recent studies, the boundaries of our entire solar system balloon outward--and an analysis of particles rebounding off of it...

Building cross-platform games just got a little riskier thanks to Apple.

If done correctly, ATSC 3.0 should dramatically improve the quality of over the air television, but there are legitimate concerns that industry players will abuse the standard.

It turns out that the threat of the massive VPNFilter botnet malware that was discovered late last month is beyond what we initially thought. Security researchers from Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence have today uncovere...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is back "awake" and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history - a New Year's Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.

A new poll finds that the American public broadly supports NASA but thinks the space agency should be focused more on Earth science and planetary defense than human missions to the moon or Mars. SpaceNews.com

Don't let your big, weird ideas swirl down the drain.  Some of the most innovative ideas originate in the shower, but too often they never make it out of the bathroom. On the the third episode of "Masters of Scale," End...

Last week, Gizmodo launched The Gateway, an investigative podcast about Teal Swan an internet spiritual guru who creates hypnotic YouTube videos aimed at people who are struggling with depression. These videos share cont...

DxO has announced the immediate availability of the Nik Collection 2018 by DxO, an updated suite of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop plugins for photographers and creative professionals. Also available today, DxO PhotoLab 1...

If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong -- but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study finds.

Facebook on Tuesday confirmed that a Chinese phone maker deemed a national security threat by the US was among companies given access to data on users.

In efforts to curb tech addiction, Apple is introducing a new feature in iOS 12 that provides users an in-depth look at usage statistics and offers tools to manage onscreen time. We take a first look at the digital healt...

Apple has already vindicated the stylus. At least on tablets. On smartphones, Samsung not only holds strong, it also mostly stands alone. Only one other manufacturer has even bothered to take up the challenge. LG's Stylu...

iOS and macOS are not going to merge. Apple CEO Tim Cook already set his foot down on that matter. That's just the TL;DR version, though. The fine print, however, does mention something about a more "unified" experience....