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The ongoing Kilauea Volcano eruption has a lava boat now.

NASA's approaches to planetary protection are outdated in an era of more ambitious missions and emergence of private space exploration ventures and thus need to be revised, a new report concludes. SpaceNews.com

Axios reports that the White House wants Congress to pass a bill that "provides Trump a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will." The bill is called the United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act. To me, it is the FART A...

Acer's Spin 5 and Lenovo's Yoga 730 are two solidly built convertible 2-in-1s with excellent performance. We take a look at the details to see which of these midrange options are most worth your money. The post Acer Spin...

Pinduoduo, a Chinese ecommerce website backed by technology giant Tencent, is the one of the major online sales platforms in the country along with Alibaba and JD.com.

Dell is returning to the public market in a $22 billion stock buyout that will still leave CEO/founder Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake firmly in charge, as reported by The Financial Times. The company went p...

Thanks to European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, a group of astronomers have taken the first photograph of a planet being formed around a young dwarf star called PDS 70. The planet has been named PDS...

Leica has announced a set of new firmware updates that add new features and changes to its major camera lines. The updates cover the Leica M10, Leica Q, Leica CL, Leica TL2, Leica TL and even the original Leica T, Leica ...

Most asteroids and meteorites originate from the splintering of a handful of minor planets formed during the infancy of our solar system, a new study shows.

In the past, California has exerted something like a gravitational pull on the rest of the United States; in both legislation and civil liberties, where the Golden State goes — with its 12 percent of the U.S. populatio...

Dell Technologies will again become a public company with the $21.7 billion purchase of DVMT, a stock that tracks the performance of the Dell-controlled cloud tech firm VMware.        

Large molecules coming out of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, might be produced by a biological source beneath the surface.

Gentoo's quick and comprehensive response to a hack should be considered the standard against which organizations are judged for handling security breaches.

The Rosetta mission's Philae lander descended toward the two-and-a-half-mile-wide comet at a human's walking pace. For seven tense hours, scientists in Darmstadt, Germany monitored its radio signal. They would have no id...

The Fujifilm X-T100 sits between the entry-level X-A5 and midrange X-T20 and features a 24MP APS-C sensor, eye-catching design and a unique articulating LCD. Our sample gallery was shot with a number of lenses, including...

Tesla's giant Australian energy storage facility may seem small in the near future. Pacific Gas and Electric has submitted proposals for four new energy storage projects to the California Public Utilities Commission, one...

In this week's "Social Media Roundup," you will learn about some new features Facebook is testing, LinkedIn's translation and QR code features, Lite versions of Instagram and Spotify, music for Instagram Stories and much...

If you presumed, like many of us, that the Galaxy Note 9 might be as "boring" as an incremental upgrade as the Galaxy S9 was earlier this year, then Samsung might have just turned the tide. Its official invite teaser for...

A second rocket developed by Japanese start-up Interstellar Technologies has failed at lift-off, with the 10-metre rocket exploding in a fireball.

It's a day of the week, so that means it's time for more revelations about Facebook's sharing habits that it hadn't previously revealed to users. In the latest entry in the endless attempt at retroactive transparency, Fa...

Virgin Orbit has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration for the first launch of its LauncherOne vehicle, which the company hopes to perform later this summer. SpaceNews.com

What exactly is Google Duplex? Creepy or not, it's coming soon. This guide explains the technology, how it works, the potential applications and concerns, and what it can do for you. The post What is Google Duplex? appea...