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Facebook receives plenty of pointed criticism from numerous corners, for refusing to police political speech on Facebook, its seemingly endless string of privacy breaches, and its apparent coziness of late with the Trump...

International Garden Photographer of the Year's winner and finalists On February 7th, the winners and finalists for Competition 13 of the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) awards were announced at th...

At the end of last fall, my son participated in a two-day end-of-season soccer tournament. They were long, cold, busy days and a parent of one of his teammates promised them a special snack after their last game of the w...

Over three years ago, I tested out the Fuji X100F and was introduced to the pleasantries of carrying around a capable point and shoot. Today's agenda is the fifth installment of Fujifilm's X100 line of cameras: the Fuji ...

Mobile adoption around the world is having a significant impact on the web’s traffic. According to a new report from SimilarWeb, out today, mobile web traffic has jumped 30.6% since 2017, while desktop traffic dropped ...

(University of Exeter) Older people could hold the key to revitalising rural communities, researchers say.

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.4 update to its public beta testing group, with the new public beta coming five days after the release of the first developer beta. Beta testers who h...

The Solar Orbiter is a joint effort between the ESA and NASA and is designed to enable the new study of the Sun. The Solar Orbiter launched Sunday at 11:03 p.m. EST. The launch vehicle was a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...

Japan's SoftBank Group is expected to post a slide in profits for the past quarter, deepening concern about its ability to secure funding for a second Vision Fund and giving activist fund Elliott Management more fodder f...

A technical issue scrubbed a scheduled Feb. 9 launch a Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station as NASA is considering changes to the schedule of future cargo missions and science activities on the station...

Another tech giant is taking a pass on Barcelona. Amazon joins a growing list of companies no longer  attending the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which runs in Barcelona from Feb. 24-27. The departing companies, Amazon i...

Broken app, jammed phone lines, and understaffed IT help desk led to disaster.

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted four members of the Chinese military for the 2017 Equifax breaches, which exposed the data of more than 145 million Americans.  U.S. Attorney General William Barr made the announc...

The rapidly falling cost of getting into orbit has spurred a boom in the space industry as a host of new applications become economical. Now a secretive startup plans to slash the cost to just $250,000 by flinging rocket...

The new collection, a collaboration with Teenage Engineering, has its own set of 3D-printable accessories.

Tobias Friedrich dove into 27ºF water to capture the ice formations most people never see.

One of the reasons for choosing Android over iOS is the extra customization options you get--you can really dive deep when it comes to tweaking the appearance of Android, pixel-by-pixel, and there are a huge number of ap...

After years of development, an exciting new scientific research spacecraft has launched on its journey to study our solar system’s central player: the Sun. The Solar Orbiter, developed jointly by NASA and the European ...

Microsoft today updated its Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for the iPhone with a simplified three-tab layout. The three tabs include Home, New, and Open: Home: Sign in to your Microsoft account and view recent document...

Researchers at Caltech have devised a new approach to fight cancer using ultrasound. The technique uses low-intensity pulses of ultrasound and has been shown to selectively kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells un...

University of Maastricht Pays Roughly $240,000 in Bitcoin Following Targeted Ransomware Attack

A large team of space scientists working in Canada has found evidence of a fast radio burst with a steady 16-day cycle. The team has published a paper describing their findings on the arXiv preprint server.