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My love for corn has been well documented. I will eat it steamed. I will eat it creamed. I will strip the cobs of their golden, juicy kernels and eat them raw. And, once I am left with nothing but naked cobs, I will use ...

Google is ironing out disclosure and things that make folks freak out. Now it's time for the business implications.

Policymakers in Washington seem to be waking up to concerns that the United States is lagging behind China and other countries when it comes to investing in quantum computing

You'll want to say goodbye to dreams of Facebook-made internet drones. The company will stop designing and manufacturing its own aircraft, and is closing the relevant facility in the British town of Bridgwater. According...

Getting your first paycheck at your first job is exciting. You worked hard for it, after all--you earned it. And while the first thing you might want to do is treat yourself for all of your hard work, you might want to b...

KDE Plasma 5.13's new blur feature won't help you be more productive, but it will bring an added layer of elegance to your desktop.

Samsung smartphone cameras are about to get a big improvement in low-light performance, with a new image sensor technology, ISOCELL Plus, promising better color and less blow-out. The improvements are likely to be visibl...

When you think of Mars you most certainly don't think of any color other than red. It’s called the Red Planet for a reason. Recently the Mars Renaissance Orbiter spied something on the surface of Mars that isn't red in...

Microsoft claims its facial recognition technology just got a little less awful.  Earlier this year, a study by MIT researchers found that tools from IBM, Microsoft, and Chinese company Megvii could correctly identify l...

Very few people ever have the opportunity to fly into space. If SpaceX and Blue Origin manage to make space tourism a real thing, that could change, but for now it's a pretty exclusive club. Being strapped into capsule p...

An expansion of copyright infringement safe harbours to the educational, cultural, and disability sectors including while using cloud service providers has passed Parliament.

As the commercial launch industry seeks regulatory reforms to streamline the licensing process, other are raising concerns about a schedule that calls for those changes to be completed next year. SpaceNews.com

The massive high-altitude aircraft would have delivered broadband internet to remote areas.

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing the latest ownCloud server release onto the latest iteration of Ubuntu Server.

In what amounted to little more than a toss-away line during Apple's WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi offhandedly mentioned that in tvOS 12, Apple was working to bring more Apple TV functionality, including Siri, to third-p...

In a set of product drawings made by Apple we’ve seen what could very well be the future of the brand’s smart devices collection – conceptually, anyway. The drawings come from a patent description packet by the nam...

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, is a huge fan of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. Musk cofounded the non-profit in 2015 with entrepreneur Sam Altman, and the company received more than $1 b...

What are common misconceptions that people have about the early universe? This question was originally answered on Quora by David Christian.

Words with multiple meanings pose a special challenge to algorithms.

For any company built on top of machine learning operations, the more data they have, the better they are off -- as long as they can keep it all under control. But as more and more information pours in from disparate sou...

Last week on Processor we covered a bunch of utilities for the Mac and, as promised, here's the Windows 10 side of things. As with the last piece, I wanted to focus in on utilities instead of apps -- little tools that im...

Customers generally frustrated with the experience of reaching out to contact centres may finally get to change their mind, thanks to a Big Data mining solution brought by the BISON project.