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Elon Musk could treat himself to pretty much anything for his 50th birthday on Monday, but the one thing he's asked for he won't be able to have just yet.

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have built what they called the world’s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. Interestingly, the team leveraged a concept that was virtually abandoned five decades ago. The ...

Many consumer electronics today either contain magnets or generate electromagnetic fields. Most of us take such things for granted, but for some people, it could be a matter of life and death. Earlier this year, there wa...

Although they probably shouldn’t, many people today regard Google as the repository of truth and fact. People simply search for news or use terms related to things and events and take the top results as the authoritati...

If you have a smart light setup from the same brand, you’ll love the Philips Hue Wall Switch Module. It installs behind your existing light switches, and it lets you turn the switch you already have into a smart switch...

The day that Telegram gets into group video calling has finally arrived. In case you forgot, that's OK. It has been more than a year since the company announced it was working on the feature. But hey, better late than ne...

According to new research, most extrasolar planets do not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis, which places limits on how many might be habitable. The post Most Exoplanets won’t Receive Enough Radiation to S...

Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, th...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for the generation of intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high-harmonic generation (HHG ). Its advantage lies in the fact that its footprint ...

NASA is still investigating the computer glitch that has left the Hubble Space Telescope offline after an unsuccessful attempt to turn on its backup computer for the first time in space.

UK-based robotics company CMR Surgical this morning announced a $600 million Series D. This latest round, led by Softbank's Vision Fund 2 and co-led by Ally Bridge Group, joins an existing $384.8 million already raised b...

Microsoft last week rolled out updates for the Edge browser with fixes for two security issues, one of which concerns a security bypass vulnerability that could be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code in the co...

Every morning, I am stirred awake by one of the dumbest creatures in existence: a once-abandoned, now adopted 3-year-old orange tabby cat named Cheddar. In exchange for this wake up service, Cheddar gets free meals, pric...

A design largely inspired by the OnePlus 9.

Pamela Conrad is a NASA scientist working on the Perseverance mission--and a priest. She spoke to WIRED about how her two worlds help her make sense of the universe.

On a special episode of the AppleInsider podcast we interview Om Malik, founder of technology news site Gigaom, to discuss social media networks, the future of creator platforms, broadband access in the US, plus Apple's ...

Microsoft says it has observed new activity associated with Nobelium, the Russia-linked threat actor that compromised IT management and monitoring solutions provider SolarWinds.

Everyone from Samsung to Xiaomi offers autofocus on their ultra-wide cameras, and Apple could soon join the party too.

Much more liquid water may lie beneath Mars' south pole than scientists had thought -- or there may be something going on down there that they don't fully understand.

Government regulators in the UK have started to crack down on Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency platform by volume, with some news outlets like the BBC going so far as to call it a "ban." But Binance says it's ...

The fiber has been considered a "miracle material" for anything from body parts to food. Has the revolution finally arrived?

Lenovo announced a variety of new products ahead of this year's main Mobile World Congress event that takes place in an altered format in Barcelona, including new Windows 10 laptops, several exciting Go accessories, and ...