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A pilot in Southern California has captured video of what appears to be a person flying a jetpack, the first visual evidence of an unexplained flying object that seems similar to a reported jetpack sighting near the Los ...

From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.

As anybody who wished for a more eventful 2020 now knows, sweating the details is important. How else to describe the LG Wing, a rotating dual-screen curio that – even in a time of foldable smartphones – still manage...

The coronavirus pandemic — and a handful of other factors — slowed dealmaking for startups in India this year. Compared to their record $14.5 billion fundraise last year, Indian startups are ending 2020 with about $9...

China's latest salvo against one of its most well-known technology giants could portend a more perilous regulatory regime for others in the industry as well.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers have always known that waves were an important part of the cliff erosion process, but they haven't been able to separate the influence of waves and rain before. After de...

One of the most popular Kindle programs is coming to an end. What you need to know Amazon is closing down the Kindle Owners Lending Library program on January 4, 2021. The program was introduced in 2011 and allowed Kindl...

We’re counting down the days to the end of the year but that won’t be the only thing that will end after December 31, 2020. While we probably wish a certain pandemic will magically end at the stroke of midnight, it w...

Huawei has long been boasting about its independence from Google, especially in software, though that independence was more or less forced upon it anyway. In addition to building its own ecosystem of Android apps and ser...

There’s a new Minecraft map and adventure available for no cost whatsoever as part of the current Minecraft Community Celebration. That celebration is in the mix for 2020, leading up to the end of the year. In this lat...

Earlier this year, my neighbors and I all had some weird quarantine-induced scheme where we decided we would all gift each other gaming chairs. The idea was that we'd all be in lockdown working from home, so we might as ...

In an interview with Alfa Romeo Japan, the President and CEO of Ricoh Imaging Shinobu Takahashi is surprisingly upfront about Ricoh’s acquisition of Pentax and the issues the company has had with finding its place in a...

A joint ESA and NASA probe is on its way to the sun. The probe is called the Solar Orbiter, and on its trek towards the sun, it passed by Venus. Solar Orbiter completed its first flyby Venus about 7:39 AM Eastern time on...

A judge has confirmed Nintendo's court victory over a go-kart company that did Mario Kart-themed tours on the streets of Tokyo, Engadget Japan reports. Early this, year, MariCar (now branded as Street Kart) was ordered t...

WinFS, stability, and waking engineers Interview Everyone has their favourite when diving into the tub of SQL Server - for some its a chewy hard toffee that delights, for others its a thin choc shell crammed with overper...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently tweeted something interesting about the latest Tesla software update. According to the tweet, Tesla vehicle owners who apply the software update will be able to change the sounder horn makes ...

You'll be able to trade-in your existing phone for up to $700. What you need to know Samsung has opened pre-order reservations for its upcoming Galaxy S21 series phones in the U.S. If you register for the pre-order notif...

Computational photography can only do so much with limited hardware. Smartphone photography has come a long way in the last few years. While professional photographers and videographers certainly aren't ditching their DS...

Here are nine cool ancient weapons discovered this year.

Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the research arm of MIT in Singapore, have created a new type of plant se...

One of the most famous ancient cities in all of Italy is the ill-fated city of Pompeii. The city and its residents were covered in hot ash and pumice stone after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. In modern times, ...

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