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Data leaks, NSA secrets, and more of this week's top security news.

Tinder may be known primarily as a millennial hookup app but thanks to a little pressure from a 69-year-old, married Baby Boomer senator, the dating service is more secure. Tinder parent company Match Group announced thi...

Today the Department of Justice announced it has arrested a man in LA on charges that he threatened to kill the family of FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai. 33-year-old Markara Man allegedly sent three emails to Pai from "stubbl...

What's going on with Bitcoin?

We're eager to see if Nvidia's CEO winds up eating his words.

Dark energy is pushing distant galaxies apart from one another at an increasing rate. If the Big Rip hypothesis is true, things will only get worse from here.

A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company has exploded seconds after liftoff in northern Japan, bursting into flames

Sci-fi author Peter Watts' short story is a take on John Carpenter's movie told from the alien's point of view.

Leica has released new firmware for five of its camera models, making significant changes to the way existing features operate while also adding totally new functions in some cases. The updates effect the M10 rangefinder...

We'll get great new views of the iconic spot--if the James Webb Space Telescope ever gets off the ground.

An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer Michael Lund explains how a new telescope under construction in Chile will become a vital tool for detecting objects that could devastate our planet.

After a rough spell that included two bear runs the preceding week, the crypto market made gains on June 30 following the expiration of CME future contracts.

GitHub rivals say more developers are moving projects since Microsoft said it would buy the code-hosting site; but many developers are sticking with GitHub---for now.

(Tokyo Metropolitan University) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have observed the formation of holes that move by themselves in droplets of ionic liquids (IL) sitting inside water-ethanol mixtures. This cu...

This week’s mass shooting at a Maryland newspaper office by a man who for years menaced reporters on social media spotlights the struggle law enforcement and social media companies face as they try to police cyberstalk...

How life kickstarts is way complicated.

Comcast, the nation's largest broadband provider and one of the nation's largest pay-TV providers, was hit with a nationwide outage Friday, June 29.        

At CES this January, Qualcomm introduced the QCC5100 chipset built to improve battery life, reception and processing power of wireless earbuds. Now the company has announced a cheaper version, the QCC3026, intended to ma...

Amazon’s Echo speakers are a fantastic gateway into the world of Alexa while you’re at home, but what happens when you’re on the go? No, you shouldn’t carry an Amazon Tap with you every time you leave the house. ...

But first it needs you to give its homegrown mapping app another shot.

Weather patterns lurching between extremes so far this year have led to the United States only seeing about half its normal tornado activity through the end of June.

He allegedly told authorities he was upset about the repeal of net neutrality.