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These days, most robots under development seem to be based on humans. However, a tweak to these designs might actually make robots more effective and stable. Centauro is based on the design of a centaur, hence the name, ...

When someone reports an offensive post on Facebook (or asks for a review on a message caught by its automatic filters, where does it go? Part of the the process is, as it always has been, powered by humans, with thousand...

Smart assistants are supposed to be smart at helping us be more productive but they have so far fallen short of that. They have not yet reached a point where we can trust them with our schedules, appointments, and routin...

Lava everywhere! NASA's Terra satellite can still see the damage caused by flowing lava on Hawaii's Big Island.

If you’re located anywhere in North America, you won’t be able to see tomorrow’s total lunar eclipse…at least not by stepping outside. The celestial event won’t be visible in the US, Canada, or Mexico, which is...

Update: But Infowars is defying YouTube's ban and livestreaming the show anyhow.

Microsoft is putting together a service aiming to take the pain out of procuring, provisioning and managing Windows 10 devices that it's currently calling the 'Microsoft Managed Desktop.'

This post introduces the basics of Java syntax so that you can better start to understand what all those lines do. Developing good practices now will save you a lot of trouble as an Android developer further down the lin...

Intel Corp shares fell 9 percent on Friday, after the chipmaker's upbeat results were overshadowed by concerns that Advanced Micro Devices Inc may be chiseling off market share from its high-margin data center business.

In the next 6 years, 4 billion "new minds" are about to be connected to the world wide web, at gigabit connection speeds, at near zero-cost. By 2024, we are connecting every person on Earth to the web with bandwidths far...

In the 1990s, the cacao farmers of Brazil fell into a collective depression. Some hanged themselves, others dosed themselves with rat poison, still others walked around crying and saying they didn't have anything to eat....

Holy Kim Kardashian! Have The People's Twitter prayers been answered? SEE ALSO: Here's which Kardashian lost the most followers in the Twitter Purge According to ProPublica reporter Logan Jaffe, it looks like... wait for...

And all of the notes are played at the same volume, so no silent notes (i.e., cheating)!

Samsung has had something of a rough year so far when it comes to its mobile phone division. Not so long ago, Samsung's smartphone sales were the driving force behind its financial success. More recently, however, the co...

The Trump administration is working on a set of data privacy protections, the Washington Post reports, and according to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, officials have held 22 meetings with...

(Queensland University of Technology) A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from postcoital dysphoria (PCD) which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex...

LinkedIn today announced a new feature for its Messaging platform that seemingly nobody asked for. In a blog post, the company revealed that you can now record and send voice messages up to one-minute long via LinkedIn M...

Stealth horror game Hello Neighbor puts you at odds with the creepy next-door neighbor, tasking you with sneaking in to his house to find his secrets while you avoid getting found out. Just one day before the game is sla...

Start your cardboard-based engines this September.

A facial recognition tool that Amazon.com Inc sells to web developers wrongly identified 28 members of the U.S. Congress as police suspects, in a test conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organizat...

Are you jealous of all the cars you drive past that have those gorgeous LED headlights? Well you don't need to cough up the cash for a luxury car to experience them for yourself. LED headlights don't just look better tha...

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