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The 2020 RASC-AL competition is now open for submissions from undergraduate and graduate students.

Researchers at the Black Hat security conference this week highlighted an interesting, and somewhat impractical, way to fool Apple's Face ID. Originally introduced with the iPhone X, Face ID does an impressive job of onl...

One day you will need to replace your old phone with a new one, and you'll want to have your data just the way you like it. Here are some convenient ways to transfer data from your old iPhone (or other iOS device) to you...

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.

Teenager Bill Demirkapi had been ghosted. Hard. "It didn’t feel good," he explained to the large crowd gathered to hear him speak. "It hurt my feelings.”  But Demirkapi, despite his status as a recent high-school gr...

Data breaches normally entail online intrusions these days, but New York City's fire department is dealing with a classic problem: the physical storage is simply gone. FDNY has warned that an employee's personal hard dri...

Robocalls are a menace to modern society. So you resort to a third-party app to block them and all's well, right? Actually, no. As it turns out, many popular robocall-blocking apps such as TrapCall and Truecaller don't h...

Patients with type 2 diabetes improve their ability to regulate blood sugar levels if they eat food with a reduced carbohydrate content and an increased share of protein and fat. The findings are contrary to the conventi...

You will not go to the moon today.

There are plenty of cool things on Amazon, but the Allwood Arlanda XL DIY Tiny House Kit has to be somewhere near the top of the list. You’ve obviously heard about the tiny house trend and how popular it has become. Yo...

Picture two tissue box-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth. Then picture them communicating, and using a water-powered thruster to approach each other. If you can do that, then you’re up to speed on one of the activities o...

Ill-fated movie ticket subscription company MoviePass is the subject of a new editorial alleging that shady tactics took place behind closed doors. Anonymous former MoviePass employees have claimed that among other thing...

Content creators have a lot of complaints about Youtube, but one you'll hear most often is how the platform seems to give its high-profile accounts more leniency when it comes to content moderation. But there's a simple ...

Injuries have overtaken infectious disease as the leading cause of death for children worldwide, and psychologists have the research needed to help predict and prevent deadly childhood mishaps.

Plus, solar eclipses are a key opportunity for scientists.

The Vector-R taking off on its second suborbital test flight in 2017 | Photo: Vector Aerospace startup Vector -- a US company developing small rockets to send small satellites into orbit -- announced on Friday it is paus...

Disease-causing air pollution remains high in pockets of America -- particularly those where many low-income and African-American people live, a disparity highlighted in recent research.

Acuvue Oasys Transitions contacts protect your eyes from UV rays, block excess light and help you squint less in the sun. And, depending on who you ask, look creepy or cool in the sunlight.

IBM's latest foray into making A.I. more amenable to the world is a toolkit of algorithms that can be used to explain the decisions of machine learning programs. It raises a deep question: Just what is an explanation, an...

Black Hat and Defcon are underway in Vegas, WhatsApp flaws allow hackers to alter messages, and more of this week's top security news.

The year of our Lord 2019 marked the first time wireless 5G service became commercially available in the United States, but there are some major caveats to that statement. After all, the number of places where you can ac...

Bennu, the asteroid currently being explored by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, will have its various features named after mythological birds and ‘bird-like creatures,’ according to NASA. The decision was made by the...