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India is now gearing up for the July launch of Chandrayaan-2, a robotic lunar orbiter/lander/rover combo that is slated to touch down at a predetermined site close to the lunar south pole.

The very-excellent tower defense game, Bloons TD 6--normally $5 on mobile--is now available for free on iOS and Android for a limited time. Even if tower defense games aren't your scene, this one is going to suck you in ...

A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded.

Once again elections are being battered and political views polarized by far-right propaganda flooding social media - could a simple tweak to online connections help win the information wars?

Patrick Stewart returns as Jean-Luc Picard in our first tease of the good captain's later years.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is taking additional steps to confirm that audience members actually see a movie before leaving a rating or review. The site’s Audience Scores -- distinct from the Tomatometer, which i...

Default voices reinforce the stereotype of women being "obliging, docile and eager-to-please helpers," says a United Nations report.

New research findings show that the number of people dying with palliative care needs is set to almost double over the next four decades. By 2060, an estimated 48 million people each year (47% of all deaths globally) wil...

A Barcelona-based association of taxi drivers on Thursday announced it would lodge a legal complaint against ride-hailing services Uber and Cabify for fraud and other offences.

Computex is still days away but the parade of notebooks has already begun. Late Wednesday, Acer introduced two AMD-powered laptops to its lineup with new versions of the Nitro 5 gaming notebook and Swift 3 ultrabook. The...

Pre-tax profits up 459% but 'geopolitical uncertainties' aren't lost on PC maker Despite growing political tensions engulfing some Chinese tech firms, Lenovo managed to get back in the black after peddling higher-spec PC...

Samsung researchers developed an algorithm that only needs one source image to create fake videos.

A UK watchdog has forced Apple to be more open with customers about the impact updates will have on iPhone performance. But this highlights a problem with the way Apple - and other device manufacturers - are now pushing ...

Electronics giant says disclosure of previously confidential details could "irreparably harm" its business.

If you believe Ben Mezrich's reporting, young Mark Zuckerberg was a huge asshole. Like, the make a fake and racist social media profile for someone you don't like kind of asshole.  The author of The Accidental Billionai...

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup, has landed a $48.7 million project to shuttle people in an underground Loop system around the Las Vegas Convention Center. This is the company’s f...

The flaw made the information easy to scrape and turn into a database.

Which means Elon Musk's "mass transit" tunneling company has its first official customer.

News People who suffer a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain-- known as brain haemorrhage--can take common medicines without raising their risk of another stroke, a major clinical trial has found... Contributed Author...

News University of Chicago scientists are part of an international research team that has discovered superconductivity--the ability to conduct electricity perfectly--at the highest temperatures ever recorded. Using advan...

News A new BJS (British Journal of Surgery) analysis reveals that people undergoing surgery in England are getting older at a faster rate than the general population... Contributed Author: Wiley Topics: Surgical

News Colorado State University researchers have led pioneering studies into improving the performance and cost of solar energy by fabricating and testing new materials that extend beyond the capabilities of silicon... Co...