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When it comes to heat in our Solar System, Mercury takes the top crown, at least as far as planets are concerned. You wouldn't last more than a few seconds on Mercury's surface, with temperatures topping 800 degrees Fahr...

Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

When everyone's a passenger instead of a driver, the car experience really starts to change. As we take more and more Lyft and Uber rides — and eventually once autonomous cars drive us around — the purpose of the car...

Curiosity photographed an odd, flat object that mission team members initially thought might have fallen off the car-size robot. But the "debris" turned out to be a Red Planet rock.

Sometimes the big guys, with their massive storms and fun-for-kids-to-draw rings, get all the attention.

Google's data centers hold thousands of servers and they power everything from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube. But those data centers need to be kept cool in order for those servers to run reliably. A couple of years ...

Google's big Gmail redesign was revealed this past April (with G Suite customers getting the first look). It became default for everyone starting in July. One of the key features, Confidential Mode, is now available for ...

Casey Neistat is a YouTube vlogger in a class of his own. His daily life-in-New York videos are insanely popular, in no small part because of the outstanding videography he manages to pull off without a real film crew. A...

The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly pushing Facebook to disable or otherwise break end-to-end encryption in its Messenger text and voice messaging service as part of a criminal investigation into the MS-13 gang.

Oh good, we're out of the board games phase, then DeepMind's artificially intelligent algorithms are directly controlling the cooling systems within Google's data centers to improve efficiency....

That would mean breaking encryption on the chat app.

Spoilers ahead for Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos isn't your usual Marvel nemesis. Then again, even after 19 films in Disney's superhero universe, it's not as if he's had much strong competition. Aside from the puckish L...

Wireless giants are investing millions to bring faster networks for consumers. They promise lightning fast speed for phones, but at first, they will positioned as cable TV alternatives.        

On this Tanzanian archipelago, conservation and economic development are intertwined.

The big guns Image by Flavio Ensiki Fresh gear comes fast and furious in the wide-open world of PC hardware--so quickly that even computing faithful like us can't possibly cover it all. But nobody wants to miss out on an...

It's a complicated situation and a complicated subject. Maybe this will simplify things.

Here's a recap of all the iPhone news this week.

On Monday (Aug. 13), Curiosity photographed an odd, flat object that mission team members initially thought might have fallen off the car-size robot. But the "debris" turned out to be a Red Planet rock.

A neurological "functional fingerprint" allows scientists to explore the influence of genetics, environment and aging on brain connectivity.

The Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest blaze in California's history, releases clouds of smoke in new photos from NASA, and fires blazing over Canada are visible from a million miles away in space.

Research silenced amid copyright, trademark claims If you were at BSides Manchester in England this week, you hopefully caught James Williams' presentation on the shortcomings of some commercial antivirus tools....

Using food weighting stations, the researchers collected information on the number of students who ate a school breakfast, how much they ate, and their exact nutritional intake.