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This fall, Earth has about a 1-in-7,000 chance of getting an uninvited extraterrestrial visitor: asteroid 2006 QV89.

An AI that writes convincing fake news articles is more accurate than other algorithms at differentiating fake from real news

Prince's estate announced plans this week to release a new collection of unreleased demos written by the artist called Originals.

NASA's mission to Mars in 2020 is a very, very big deal. After the death of Opportunity a number of months back, NASA has just one rover left on the Red Planet and Curiosity isn't exactly a spring chicken. Curiosity's tw...

Two members of Congress ask the company to reveal when it knew the light wasn't working and when it told airlines.

The problem that EV charging is creating in Norway foreshadows the problems we could have in the US, but on a much larger scale.

Automation and artificial intelligence could disrupt a lot of jobs and a lot of lives, so Microsoft has picked one city to pilot an experiment to prepare for the future.

Season 2 is light years ahead of the show's first season.

Group of 20 finance ministers agreed to push ahead on compiling common rules that will close loopholes that global technology giants like Facebook use to reduce their corporate tax burden.

Facebook has been working on its own cryptocurrency for quite a while now, and it looks like the company is seeking to unveil its product as soon as its month. Libra, the Facebook-made Bitcoin rival, will not actually be...

Fancy a stay on the International Space Station? NASA is willing to talk.

Malware on the Dark Web is increasingly being customized to target specific organizations and executives.

One word: Mermaids.

Google's big outage also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it.

During its E3 2019 event today, Electronic Arts talked about Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, its upcoming game first detailed weeks ago. EA did things a bit different at E3 this year compared to in the past, choosing to br...

NASA has released an image showing mapping data gathered by the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer instrument aboard the ISS. It traces the X-ray sources which NICER captures during its night time passes.

When engineers train AI agents to play video games, they often do so at an accelerated rate, having the bot go through hours of human-speed gameplay in a matter of minutes to stress-test its capabilities. Unfortunately, ...

Not much more dangerous than a banana

Without the Higgs, the Standard Model of particle physics comes crashing down.

Researchers have announced the discovery of more than one hundred additional jars of the dead in Laos. These huge ‘jars’ are scattered throughout remote parts of central Laos in a place where there’s no evidence of...

It is often the way in which women are viewed rather than what they are doing that renders their behavior potentially 'suggestive' or not.       

Uber chief Dara Khosrowshahi put out word Friday that he is tightening his grip on the wheel at the ride-share firm in the wake of a bumpy stock market debut.