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Verizon's resale of its customer location data poses not just a threat to the privacy of ordinary citizens, but in the hands of foreign powers could have jeopardized national security, raising the question of just how mu...

Do not touch this plant. If you get some of the sap on your skin, chemicals in the sap will attack the DNA in your skin cells and make you sensitive to the sun. So sensitive, in fact, that normal sun exposure can give yo...

Thousands of people in Sweden have inserted microchips, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards and even rail cards, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there is no longer any need...

With pressure mounting on the Trump administration's family separation policy, Microsoft employees have joined the fold. As first reported by the New York Times, more than 100 of the company's staff have signed an open l...

Researchers have developed soft, magnetic shape-shifting materials that could one day lead to 3D printable robots

CEOs of Facebook, Google, Apple and others speak out against child separations at the border

Article 13, which requires large platforms like Facebook and Reddit to censor content before it appears online, has led to some concern.

Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants. The findings may open up new ways to study the infection in an animal model.

Many stories about Twitch revolve around celebrities, the influencers and tastemakers who have "made it" to a career of all-day gameplay streaming. But Twitch isn't just star gamers; it's pirate streams, bizarre Tim and ...

While not yet a law, the EU's plan for unreliable internet filters and expensive link taxes continues to make progress

The bill would negate many of the competitive advantages AT&T is trying to get with its Time Warner takeover.

The latest Glassdoor report on the 100 Highest-Rated CEOs is out, and Apple’s Tim Cook has dropped 43 places to #96 in the rankings - based on employee reviews - only just remaining on the list at all … more…

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley leaders have spoken out against the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward migrant families crossing into the US.

Researchers at the University of York have shown that a new quantum-based procedure for distributing secure information along communication lines could be successful in preventing serious security breaches.

Your guide for picking up the KEY2 in the U.S. and Canada. The BlackBerry KEY2 isn't a smartphone for everyone, but for fans of the BlackBerry brand or those that just want to have their physical keyboard back, it's the ...

A team of researchers at EMBL have expanded Alan Turing's seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological systems. This work, which was partly done at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), may answer whether ...

Prostate cancer is more common in African Americans, but they are less likely to be included in drug trials. Unintended biological biases are partly to blame

Researchers have identified gene mutations responsible for childhood onset schizophrenia.

Ken Boyer captures an unbelievable scene as lava rages from Kilauea's Fissure 8 on June 15, 2018

Our smartphones have practically become extensions of our bodies and lives, holding the keys not just to our captured memories but, often, also to online accounts and even money. Most users take for granted how much of o...

Both code repository GitHub and blogging platform Medium have taken down a project to automatically catalogue the identities of staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement--the government agency which has attracted wid...

Verizon teaches us that in today's surveillance society, purchasing a product no longer protects you from becoming a product yourself and the concept of "buying" privacy and the right to not be surveilled is now merely a...