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The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight, but actually spotting a meteor could be tough going for lots of observers.

Meal kit services, which deliver a box of pre-portioned ingredients and a chef-selected recipe to your door, are hugely popular but get a bad environmental rap due to perceived packaging waste.

Home sellers and real estate agents listing properties on Zillow's home marketplace now can add 3D tours for free to their listings. Zillow 3D Home uses artificial intelligence to create tours with 360-degree panoramic p...

Besides churning out video games for China’s young generations, Tencent has also been attuned to the need of silver-haired users: its latest bet is an app that teaches middle-age and elderly users, most of whom are fem...

The Indonesian government is using tiny internet-providing satellites to check if boats in the middle of the ocean are fishing legally

Instructors say that the online data science learning platform has failed to meaningfully address an incident that happened at a company gathering in 2017.

The Philippines was rocked with a 6.3 earthquake this morning that sent buildings swaying and people running for safety. But one of the most bizarre videos of the earthquake so far has to be this footage of water pouring...

Chelsea Manning will stay in jail for refusing to testify to a federal grand jury about WikiLeaks, according to a new ruling from a panel of three judges at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Manning has been in an Ale...

If you can look past its touch controls, the JBL Endurance Peak is a great balance of price, longevity, and audio quality amongst fully wireless earbuds.

In a study of mice, neuroscientists have found that impaired myelination underlies the hypersociability seen in patients with Williams syndrome.

Toshiba Corporation has realized a major breakthrough in combinatorial optimization--the selection of the best solutions from among an enormous number of combinatorial patterns--with the development of an algorithm that ...

Scientists have uncovered a process in cells that prevents DNA from becoming tangled, which resembles a method used to control climbers' ropes.

Earlier this month, Beats official unveiled its new Powerbeats Pro totally wireless earphones -- a sporty, louder take on Apple’s AirPods that uses the same H1 chip. The early reveal was tagged with a message about pen...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in Asia and has dramatically increased the risk of premature death, especially among women and middle-aged people, a multinational study le...

The $2,000 Galaxy Fold is already off to a bumpy start no thanks to some broken review units (ours is fine, by the way), and though the April 26th launch in the US remains unaffected, folks on the other side of the world...

In just a few days, Nintendo will be rolling out an update to two of the Nintendo Switch’s most iconic games. That update will bring a new mode to Super Mario Odyssey and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. a mode that will let...

According to recent analysis of data caught up in cyber attacks, millions of people are continuing to use super-simple passwords, with 123456 topping the list of easy-to-crack codes. The post Online passwords: Research c...

Using a unique computational 'framework' they developed, a team of scientist cyber-sleuths has identified 104 high-risk genes for schizophrenia.

Many people fighting a very aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) don't survive more than five years. These very sick patients are often unable to receive the only cure -- a bone marrow transplant. Now, an inte...

In the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) clinical trial and its long-term follow-up study, among the persons who lost at least 5 percent of their body weight during the first year, long-term maintenance of weight loss wa...

It you want to give the television in your living room, bedroom, home theater, or any other room a huge upgrade without actually spending hundreds or even over $1,000 on a new TV, we’ve got just the thing. The Vansky R...

Silicon Valley billionaires can make promises to give away fortunes to charity. Why can't the rest of us? The Giving Pledge is the brainchild of some of the most prominent elders of Silicon Valley -- people like Bill Gat...