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"The idea was to take emotional inventory of what was going on, rather than doing a TED talk."

Drone plans for sale, a Silk Road arrest, and more security news this week.

The special counsel's probe of the 2016 election is now directly linked to the Russian government.

It's been rumored for months that Facebook might be interested in building its own, in-house processing chips. Now it appears the social network company is really going for it. Bloomberg reported Friday that Facebook man...

Indictment ties US election interference to Russian government for first time, charging 12 Russian military intelligence officers with hacking Democrats

The 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the DNC allegedly used $95,000 worth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to fund their operation.

NASA has released an image showing “spiders” on Mars, small darks spots on the reddish landscape with tendrils one could easily perceive as tiny legs. The marks were captured by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter i...

The Herpetologists' League "regrets and apologizes for offensive content presented in the 2018 Distinguished Herpetologist lecture."

Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future recently released a report about one of its more interesting findings.  While scouring the hacker forums on the dark web, the firm’s analysts discovered someone se...

Think current smartphones are boring? These 8 Android devices available now or soon are anything but.

MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world --

There are plenty of bad ideas and bad implementations in the Chromebook world, and Microsoft should be looking at all of them. Have you checked out the Surface Go? If you haven't, it's Microsoft's latest answer to the iP...

Left hand on A S D F? Good. Right hand on J K L and, for some reason, ";"? Congrats, you're in home position! A thing basically every learned in their school's computer lab and never used for the rest of their lives. Did...

Evidence mounts that organisms without nervous systems can in some sense learn and solve problems, but researchers disagree about whether this is "primitive cognition."

A 30-year-old Irish man accused of working for now defunct "dark web" marketplace Silk Road has been extradited to the United States to face charges in New York, four years after his arrest, prosecutors announced Friday.

LG's Watch Sport and Watch Style successors may arrive a month or two before Samsung reveals the long-rumored Galaxy Watch.

Developer advocates sing the praises of Kubernetes. What's in it for enterprises?

Purchasing a new piece of equipment for your business can be a difficult process filled with lots of different steps and friction. However, this isn't the time to sit back and let someone else take charge. A correct purc...

The Giant Hogweed is a terrible, no-good, dangerous plant. It also happens to be spreading across the United States with shocking speed, and just touching can totally mess you up. A 17-year-old boy from Virginia named Al...

While we've been all over the outside of Apple's newest MacBook Pro lineup, iFixit has, as usual, decided to look underneath the hood and find out what's changed from previous models. While it has not published a full te...

Two US senators have some suspicions about smart TVs, and they're asking the Federal Trade Commission to look into the data collection practices employed by TV manufacturers to see if the internet-connected devices are q...

The PC market has posted a surprise growth in shipments this year, the first such increase in 2012 -- and the reason why probably won't come as a surprise. Market research firms Gartner and IDC are both out with fresh nu...