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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 ...

Sun, science and, er, more science The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter launched on time at 04:03 UTC this morning on the back of an Atlas V....

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 ...

MWC organizers ban travelers from Hubei, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, as exhibitors continue to pull out over health concerns.

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.

Motorola posted a video on YouTube showing its own folding machine testing the new Razr's durability.       

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 ...

Rifles down back of sofa, finds extra $3bn for shareholders The mini saga that is Xerox's effort to financially charm the pants off HP Inc shareholders has taken a new twist - the copier biz is upping its bid to more tha...

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...