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A DNA site breach, a background check failure, and more security news this week.

A massive dust storm on Mars has sidelined NASA's Opportunity rover, stalling the robot's science wr as it waits out a storm that appears to be still growing.

IBM and the Department of Energy have teamed up to create the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer. Code named Summit, the machine will be used for machine learning and AI research at the Oak Ridge National La...

Robert Opp of the U.N. World Food Programme is arguing that while his agency's well-publicized efforts to distribute food vouchers to Syrian refugees don't actually require use of a blockchain, the pilot is an important ...

After massive Aliso Canyon leak, some say storage is underutilized.

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft has detected magnetic activity occurring in a new and surprising way in the environment of near-Earth space.

Members of the Senate space subcommittee used a June 6 hearing to once again express opposition to the administration's proposal to end NASA funding of the International Space Station in 2025.

Take on any road when you ride the VanMoof Smart X Theft-Proof Bike. Complete with rider recognition, this electric bike only responds to you. All you need to do is keep your phone in your pocket for the bike to disarm i...

Larry Page's flying car starts to look real, Uber and Lyft get into bike-sharing, and Elon Musk works to get Tesla on track.

Falling between console upgrades and generational changes, 2018 is all about the games, but don't pin your hopes on a mindblowing reveal.

Governments around the world are taking various steps to prevent foreign elements from meddling with their elections. For some of them, it's to prevent foreign interference yet again -- the US, for instance, might use pa...

While the retail industry outlook doesn't seem as dire as it once was, it's more important than ever for retailers and brands to execute to really thrive. Global consulting firm Kalypso discusses the technologies retaile...

Apple iOS 12 will allow developers to build apps for reporting SMS and call spam.

Messages posted this weekend to Apple’s website confirm that the company’s Covent Garden and Wangfujing retail stores will close later this month to be refreshed with new store designs. more…

Yes, you read that correctly. Elon Musk has followed up on remarks from Tesla's annual shareholder meeting (not to mention more cryptic hints in November) with a statement that the new Roadster's previously mentioned "Sp...

Following the update to OnePlus' Chinese-focused HydrogenOS, fans of the OnePlus handsets were awaiting the changes to show up on OxygenOS and available to handsets in the rest of the world. Those changes have arrived.

The state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applicants looking to procure a concealed weapon permit for more than a year, and the reason is about as dumb as it gets: the pers...

Kia has issued a recall for 507,000 vehicles in the US, and those who get a notice may want to make sure they comply with its request. The automaker said those vehicles' airbag control units may be susceptible to an elec...

Finally, we have our first proper look at Cyberpunk 2077. We've known for some time that Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red is working on a new role-playing game set in a dystopian future. Beyond a brief teaser trailer, ...

CD Projekt Red, makers of the amazing The Witcher 3, made a surprise appearance at Microsoft's E3 keynote to show off their upcoming role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077. It's been years since we saw a small teaser of this ...

Microsoft has been teasing it's working on game streaming from the cloud recently, but today at E3 the company made it official. Phil Spencer, Microsoft's gaming chief, revealed the company is hard at work building a str...

The Division is returning, and this time the battle's coming to Washington, DC.