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While you ring in the new year on Monday night, you can also watch along as NASA sends a spacecraft zooming by a tiny rock 4.1 billion miles from Earth. The space agency's New Horizons probe, which flew by Pluto in 2015,...

Your Android phone's text messages could soon be relatively junk-free without needing help from carriers. Android Police has learned that Google is rolling out spam protection to the Messages app for at least some users....

For years criminal websites shrouded in secrecy have thrived beyond the reach of traditional search engines, but a group of French engineers has found a way to navigate this dark web--a tool they don't want to fall into ...

A Twitter security flaw gives hackers a way to post unauthorized tweets via text messaging, and British cybersecurity firm Insinia has proven its existence by hijacking some celebrities' accounts. The company was able to...

A lawsuit filed against Google by consumers who claimed the search engine's photo sharing and storage service violated their privacy was dismissed on Saturday by a U.S. judge who cited a lack of "concrete injuries."

Thousands upon thousands of people are expected to pack into New York's Times Square for the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, as they have for more than a century. But this year will mark the first that the city's offici...

According to statements from cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, the hole found in the ISS was drilled from the inside and the cause remains unknown. The post Russian Cosmonaut says that the Hole in the ISS was Drilled From the ...

Viruses were discovered in 1892, and yet even in 2018, researchers are still uncovering new secrets about these infectious invaders.

Will the system work with a severed finger? Asking for some friends.

As NASA's New Horizons probe nears its second target, we investigate what's lurking at the edge of the solar system.

Facebook tracks Android users via apps, even if they aren't Facebook users.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has won NASA approval to begin full-scale production of its Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft scheduled to make its first flight in about two years.

The European Union believes it has a simple way to bolster its digital security: offer lots of cold, hard cash. The European Commission is launching bug bounties in January that will offer prizes in return for spotting s...

Louis Vuitton has upgraded its extravagant take on Wear OS with Qualcomm's new chipset for wearables. The new LV Tambour Horizon smartwatch is now powered by the Snapdragon Wear 3100, the same chip that Qualcomm worked o...

Virus interferes with publishing at Southern California printing plant.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has been excluded from the first batch of video game license approvals issued by the state-run government since March. China regulators approved Saturday the released of 80 online video gam...

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, the nation's top telecommunications regulator, has ordered mobile providers to shut down all 3G and 4G services until midnight on Dec. 30, effective immediately, Al...

Amazon is reportedly looking to expand Whole Foods stores across the country, including in suburban areas, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. News of the rumored expansion comes after Amazon acquired the grocer las...

Tesla, which is currently testing its Autopilot Hardware 3, is looking for more employees to participate in the program. To make signing up more attractive, the company is offering its workers up to $13,000 in discounts....

As we head into yet another week of the government shutdown, many furloughed government employees might be struggling with how they're going to pay their bills.

France isn't the only European country moving forward with plans to tax international tech giants. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has announced that it will introduce its own tax on Apple, Facebook, Google and other ...

We all know staring at a computer screen for hours on end is a bad idea, but that doesn't stop us from doing it.