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The BBC hopes YouTuber Ali-A will get kids liking and subscribing to Auntie again.

An 81-year-old man in Texas is thankful to be alive after being stung by hundreds of bees.

Ride-hailing giant Uber is planning to merge with its competition in the Middle East, though unlike prior deals in Southeast Asia, China, and Russia, it says it will remain in control of the merged entity.

Google Drive, the Internet giant’s cloud storage service, recently received an app update for Android. The update was a minor one in terms of changes, bringing only some bug fixes and a single new feature: support for ...

A new MacBook Pro with a powerful 28W Intel processor may be on the way, if newly surfaced Geekbench results are anything to believe.

A space shuttle-era main engine is undergoing a series of daily test firings to demonstrate its suitability for use on a reusable spaceplane under development. SpaceNews.com

Some claim the sites aid illegal sex-trafficking, but others say a ban would endanger prostitutes.

Samsung is widely expected to launch next year its most exciting Android phone yet, the Galaxy X, which is supposed to be the company first foldable phone. A report a few days ago said the Galaxy X design will be slightl...

People's reaction to Tesla's cessation of the brake-and-roll test is more than a little overblown, and here's why.

Russian authorities have sent a new extradition request to Greece for a Russian cybercrime suspect also sought on criminal charges by the U.S. and France.

The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday that its first nuclear reactor would come online in late 2019 or early 2020, further delaying the launch of the Arab World's first atomic power station.

A new method using existing communications cables could make earthquakes easier to detect.

Movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and The Terminator brought rogue robots and computer systems to our cinema screens. But these days, such classic science fiction spectacles don't seem so far removed fro...

We usually look for signs of life on planets like ours--but maybe we are looking in the wrong place

(University of Bristol) Swimming bacteria can reduce the viscosity of ordinary liquids like water and make them flow more easily, sometimes down to the point where the viscosity becomes zero: the flow is then frictionles...

One of the new watchOS 5 features demonstrated by Apple's Vice President of Technology Kevin Lynch at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June was "raise to Siri," a new Machine Learning shortcut that will invoke a Sir...

Riots and murder have followed fake news and 'provocation' India has warned Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp to do something about abuse of its service that has led to murders....

Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a billion-dollar acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack. The deal is set to clos...

"To be absolutely clear: no one at Google reads your Gmail."

If you have a recent flagship Samsung phone like the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8, or Galaxy S8+, today is your lucky day because the greatest Samsung smartphone accessory ever has been discounted on A...

Imagine, if you will, a world where businesses could sue you for leaving a negative Yelp review--and that if their lawyers could prove your statement was in some way false and defamatory, could get a court order forcing ...

Scientists understand gravity pretty well when it comes to two objects, but add a third, and you've got chaos--a system that's impossible to explain with our simplest equations. But you also have a way to test the limits...