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Last month, I felt a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of crappy songs from 2003 to 2015 cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. And they were. MySpace--yes, it's still around--lost all the music uploaded ...

Professor Gerald Fink, a pioneer in the field of genetics, delivers the annual Killian Lecture.

Two passports, three voice recorders, one gas mask: How journalist Kenneth R. Rosen reports his stories from conflict zones in the Middle East.

Italy's leading construction company Salini Impregilo said Friday it would share in a contract to build a hydroelectric station in Australia, the biggest deal ever in the country's hydropower sector.

Skype has increased the number of users that can be on the same audio or video group call to 50, up from the previous maximum of 25. The bump up to 50 means bigger team chats and larger conference calls with speakers can...

Article Until recently, Dornbirn Hospital was using conventional OR towers with only one monitor for visual support during medical interventions. Ideally however, surgeons and assisting staff should have separate display...

I've lived in six different apartments in New York, and during my several moves, I'm often confronted with what I should leave behind, like old clothing or unused electronics. But what exactly do I do with pillows that h...

If you work with a CPA or an accounting firm to get your taxes done, you might have received some nerve-wracking news recently: due to a combination of factors including our recent government shutdown and the new tax law...

When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed in 2012, it brought along eclipse glasses. The solar filters on its Mast Camera (Mastcam) allow it to stare directly at the Sun....

Researchers from Stanford University built a neural network that can help self-driving cars navigate unknown and extreme conditions.

The Falcon Heavy has flown before, but now it's got a payload that matters and competitors nipping at its heels. It's the first of a new generation of launch vehicles that can take huge payloads to space cheaply and freq...

Most TikTok posts contain music. Whether the video shows a user performing a short comedy skit, a meme, cosplay, or a weird art piece--there's usually music playing. The platform was originally designed as a lip-synching...

Three waves of DNS hijacking attacks against consumer routers have been linked back to Google Cloud Platform abuse.

Google's Advanced Technology External Advisory Council was supposed to oversee its work on artificial intelligence and ensure it doesn't cross any lines. Now, the council wouldn't be able to do any of that, because the t...

The internet shopping giant has asked international spectrum regulators to provide access to airwaves for a constellation of 3,236 satellites. SpaceNews.com

A team of researchers has demonstrated that hackers can modify 3D medical scans to add or remove evidence of a serious illness, such as cancer.

Apple Music now boasts more US-based subscribers than Spotify, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. While both companies only divulge worldwide subscriber figures, sources allegedly familiar with both ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown structural feature of living cells that is critical to tidying up.

Skype is capitalizing on Apple’s struggles with Group FaceTime to attract attention to its own group calling features. Today, the company announced it’s doubling the number of people who can simultaneously participat...

Do blond zebras really have more fun?

The question that refuses to go away: is college relevant? The debate's been raging for a while, with alternative education programs such as coding bootcamps and MOOCs popping up as alternatives to a pricey four-year edu...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is establishing six new Research Units.