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Proxima Centauri is a cool red dwarf with about one-eighth of the sun's mass. Although it is the closest star to the sun, located just 4.2 light-years from the solar system in the triple star system of alpha Centauri, it...

Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Nu metal band Korn loves podcasts just like everybody else. It's putting out a new single today, and it's also announcing a new, six-episode podcast series it helped create. The Noth...

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge With four different Galaxy S10s, four Galaxy Note 10s, and the impending launches of two Galaxy Folds, Samsung's flagship lineup for this year has officially reached ten phones. Perhaps...

Whenever a powerful storm threatens coasts, we often focus on the potential impact on human lives and infrastructure. It can sometimes be easy to forget that hurricanes can severely disrupt the lives of wildlife as well,...

Yesterday's roundup was packed full of eight paid iPhone and iPad apps that were on sale for free for a limited time, and there are actually still a few freebies in there if you missed it. We've got a fresh roundup for y...

Reid Hoffman made a dumb music video about Bitcoin and got his rich friends to tweet about it to "explore some of the most polarizing issues that characterize our own era."

The Huawei P30 Pro is not a new device – but you might be forgiven for thinking it was, reading news today. This device was re-introduced, in a way, to audiences last night at IFA 2019, a technology conference at which...

Gone are the days of poking people on Facebook that you wanted to poke in real life. Facebook officially debuted its new dating service in the U.S. yesterday, and that very sentence should cause privacy advocates a bit o...

One of the byproducts of the ongoing Streaming Wars that have come to characterize the modern entertainment landscape, with Netflix continuing to evolve and new streaming platforms launching almost everywhere you look, i...

Jim Watkins, YouTube 8chan owner Jim Watkins provided evidence to congressional staffers on Thursday to comply with a subpoena the House Homeland Security Committee issued him after a series of racist manifestos from mas...

Nintendo dropped an intriguing look at the next version of the insanely popular Wii Fit -- it's a new fitness program for the Nintendo Switch

Let's get one thing straight right now: "crypto" means "cryptography." It does not mean "cryptocurrency." Unless you're a person who thinks the blockchain is the future, that is, which is how we ended up with the dumbest...

ASUS is going hard for creative professionals at IFA 2019. Not only did they announce a new 1600-nit ProArt Display that takes aim at Apple’s Pro Display XDR, they also unveiled the ProArt StudioBook One: the world’s...

Assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski wins New Horizons prize; multiple MIT alumni also honored.

Can we write any number as the sum of three cubes? It's a puzzle that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Now we have finally have an answer for 42

Launched a few years ago, Android gaming phones are pimped out flagship devices intended to offer an even better gaming experience than regular flagship phones. What sets them apart from those regular phones are displays...

In people with supine hypertension due to autonomic failure, a condition that increases blood pressure when lying down, overnight heat therapy significantly decreased systolic blood pressure compared to a placebo. Heat t...

Twenty people die waiting for an organ transplant every day in the US, but lab-grown organs so far lack the cellular density, vasculature, and functions required to make them viable replacements. The new SWIFT method sol...

The normal human gut microbiome is a flourishing community of microorganisms, some of which can affect the human immune system. Researchers have now found that oral antibiotics, which can kill gut microorganisms, can alt...

The new Porsche Taycan may not have the range to best a Tesla, but the German automaker has a plan to change that, increasing its stake in performance EV specialist Rimac. Porsche snapped up 10-percent of the Croatian co...

The rennovated Apple Store Fifth Avenue now has the tag line ‘Always Open to Minds’ and will will be open 24/7.