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Ukrainian police have carried out nearly two dozen raids targeting alleged associates of a Russian-speaking ransomware gang it blamed for a half billion dollars in cyberattacks and extortion that hit the United States an...

Using solar energy to inexpensively harvest hydrogen from water could help replace carbon-based fuel sources and shrink the world's carbon footprint. However, finding materials that could boost hydrogen production so tha...

NASA is troubleshooting a memory problem that put the telescope's instruments into safe mode and slowed its science roll.

Now that Congress is back in session, having returned from a brief recess, there’s hope that one or both chambers might take up legislation regarding a fourth stimulus check, or perhaps at least offer some sense of the...

Do you remember the time when self-driving cars were upon us? It was almost a decade ago when the Autonomous Vehicle division at Google (now Waymo) promised a world where people would be chauffeured around by self-drivin...

DJI entered the sub-250g drone arena with the release of its original Mavic Mini drone back in November 2019. Compact, lightweight and easy to use, it's aimed at beginners. The Mavic Mini had its limits, though, includin...

Developer and app store cuts have been around for ages and, while there have been some voices of opposition, the current 70/30 split has more or less been accepted as a fact of app store life. Epic Games may be credited ...

One snail species evaded a faster, nastier predator thanks to an interesting evolutionary quirk.

A lot of industries have been hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and, unfortunately, that has resulted in layoffs and even bankruptcies. Those that managed to survive sometimes operate with reduced workforces, includi...

Not a week goes by, it seems, when we don’t have details of a new data breach, password leak or some comparable computer system intrusion by devious hackers to report on. One of the latest is a database of stolen login...

If you have installed the iOS 15 beta but now decided you no longer want to run beta system software on your device, you’ll need to downgrade the iPhone back to an iOS 14.x release. Whether you’re fed up with bugs, c...

As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It's that intimate sense of personal awareness we carry around with us, and the accompanying feeling of ownership and control ove...

Electrons are ubiquitous among atoms, subatomic tokens of energy that can independently change how a system behaves--but they also can change each other. An international research collaboration found that collectively me...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have observed the absorption of a single electron by a levitated droplet with such a magnification that it is visible with the naked eye and can even be measured with a normal ...

In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinics and patients alike began canceling all non-urgent appointments and procedures in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A boom in telemedicine was borne out of n...

With meeting times and stress levels on the rise, Microsoft is introducing well-being features in Teams, designed to help you cool your mind and relax at work.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released the following statement Thursday regarding the China National Space Agency's launch of the first crew to its Tiangong space station:

(Samba Scientific) Forsight to present clinical data of their blood-based MRD detection platform for DLBCL that detects relapse 200 days earlier than other methods.

Windows 11 may be better than we thought. PCWorld has been told by a knowledgeable source close to Microsoft that the leaked Windows 11 build is being characterized as a portion of an incomplete, early build. The source ...

Excitement over the next major iteration of Wear OS was tempered by the most important question of all, “will it run on my smartwatch?” Unfortunately, Google’s official statement is to wait for its official stateme...

Former Huawei subsidiary Honor announced on Wednesday a phone that looks remarkably similar to the Android flagship that Huawei can't yet launch, at least when it comes to rear camera design. Seen above, the Huawei P50 s...

Apple's command of the global 5G smartphone market held in the first quarter of 2021, though competitors are closing in fast in what has become an increasingly liquid segment. Apple shipped an estimated 40.4 million 5G-c...