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It's no secret that the fashion industry dislikes Amazon, but it might have a relatively simple solution: put many of its brands in one place. Checkout network ShopRunner has launched District, a mobile shopping app that...

David Armstrong studies a phenomenon that is ubiquitous in nature, yet only a few non-scientists know what it is.

Cable operator Liberty Global is investing to strengthen its Swiss UPC video offering so it could stand alone if a strategic partner isn't found, CFO Charlie Bracken said on Thursday.

Wireless speakers that you can set up in less than 2 minutes may well be worth $199 — it's just a shame they don't sound a little better. The speakers that come attached to your TV are, to put it mildly, not good. Also...

Google parent Alphabet is shutting down its SCHAFT robotics unit after failing to find a buyer. Home to the company's giant bipedal bots designed to act as first responders in emergencies, the secretive division was supp...

(Houston Methodist) In collaboration with the Houston Health Department and Epic (electronic medical records company), Houston Methodist is the first hospital system in eight US pilot sites to successfully test and launc...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg "stumbled" as they grappled with a growing number of scandals, according to The New York Times.

The Spitzer telescope looked for 'Oumuamua and couldn't find it -- but that doesn't mean it was sent by an alien civilization.

In efforts to contain and suppress fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year, Facebook went on the offensive and attacked critics of the company's privacy practices. One of the social network's targe...

Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Mojave 10.14.2 update to developers, one week after seeding the second beta and two weeks after releasing the macOS Mojave 10.14.1 update. The new macOS High Sierra ...

Apple and Qualcomm have been in a heated dispute for the last two years, and now Apple is taking another small jab at the company by opening up jobs that seem to be designed to grab employees from the chipmaking giant. B...

The mummified bodies of three climbers who went missing 59 years ago on Mexico's highest volcano have been recovered by an army unit.

Picking up the pieces "IAGONISE WAITING for the word for the fate of my very own relatives... I speak for the countless people who will no longer be able to speak for themselves after perishing from the storm." With thes...

Leaps in capabilities of commercial constellations of small Earth-observation satellites and the decreasing cost of their services were at the center of a debate about the future of publicly funded Earth-observation miss...

We hear so much about managing the customer relationship, but companies have to manage the products they sell too. Propel, a Santa Clara startup, is taking a modern cloud approach to the problem, and today it landed an $...

If a group of scientists is successful, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will be getting a cousin--one that may initially sound rather strange. Instead of gathering seeds to preserve plant species, this project involves ga...

Facebook on Thursday issued a denial of several claims in a recent New York Times report, which for instance said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so incensed by jabs from Apple CEO Tim Cook that he ordered executives to use...

The enormous crater is among the 25 largest known on Earth, and likely came from a meteorite impact within the past 3 million years --

As we descend upon the holidays (or do the holidays descend upon us?), it feels like the right time to get into the holiday-hacking mindset by revisiting all the top-notch advice we've dispensed in the past.

It'll miss Black Friday, with the first pre-orders landing in early December.

With hundreds of cryptocurrencies being issued every month, countries face a choice: ban them, leave them unregulated, or come up with rules to tame them.

Yoshitaka Sakurada, Japan's new cybersecurity minister, has never used a computer. Not even once. But he insists that his lack of real-world experience doesn't have a negative impact on his job. Seriously.