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A new nonprofit research center called OpenAI has been announced, and it aims to improve humanity through the advent of artificial intelligence. Despite his concerns about such technology, one of the investors behind the...

Following a slew of tech CEOs coming out against anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Sundar Pichai published his first essay on Medium tonight. Like Mark Zuckerberg and others his words stand in contrast to those of...

On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon. This was not only our final Moon landing, but the last time we left low Earth orbit. With the successful launch of the Orion capsule, NASA is finally poised to go...

Get the party started and keep it going with the Singing Machine Home karaoke system. This unit delivers high quality clear and crisp sound as if functions as a speaker. With a touch of a button and a connection to Wi-Fi...

When you hear the word "Kickstarter," you probably think of campaigns asking for your money. This time, though, the crowdfunding website is using its own money to fund a project: one that aims to discover why Zano mini-d...

A few days ago, French newspaper Le Monde reported on the existence of a document suggesting the country's police are seeking a bill that would severely limit internet freedom, access and privacy. Among requests noted on...

If you guessed that a Mystery Science Theater 3000 crowdfunding campaign would rake in a lot of cash... well, you guessed correctly. Joel Hodgson's quest to revive the poke-fun-at-bad-movies show has ended its campaign w...

Scattered hand bones, severed arms, cracked skulls: if one thing is clear from this Neolithic burial pit, it's that some some serious shit went down 6,000 years ago.

Android (6.0): It's no secret that Google Now On Tap was a little disappointing when it first came out . Now it's getting one handy feature. You can use it to easily share screenshots. It even removes all the clutter in ...

Astronomers are comparing it to Jupiter's red spot: a forever storm large enough to swallow three Earths. Except this monster tempest appears to be raging on a star.

The new tool out of Disney Research's labs could turn an ingénue's semi-decent attempt into a finely nuanced performance. This software called FaceDirector has the capability to merge together separate frames from diffe...

Volkswagen has big plans for the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show next month, and those could include the virtual cockpit -style design seen in a leaked video of what appears to be a new Golf concept.

After two weeks of marathon negotiations , 195 countries approved an accord that would wean the world off fossil fuels this century, limiting global warming to 2ºC, with an aspirational target of 1.5ºC. It's the first ...

As the Paris climate summit kicked off two weeks ago, venture capitalist Peter Thiel penned a scathing op-ed for the New York Times, decrying the plight of nuclear power in the U.S. He cited a stagnant regulatory environ...

James Cameron provided an update on the sequels to his 2009 film, Avatar, noting that he wanted to make sure that the first film "wasn't just some big fluke".

I've been increasingly interested in translated science fiction novels, and one of the best ones that I picked up this year was Taiyo Fujii's debut Gene Mapper.

If you're busy exploring everything that OS X El Capitan has to offer, one of the smaller new features that you might not have come across yet is the ability to automatically hide the menu bar from view--if you want a tr...

A vote on the accord that's being hailed humanity's best and perhaps last shot at preventing dangerous climate change is about to take place in Paris. Watch 195 countries try to make history here.

You could argue that midsize sedans like the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu are victims of their own success. What's possible they most mundane car segment around is also one of the most popular in terms of US sales; that makes p...

Felix and Ben meet up with Bunnie and Sean, the creators of the open source computing platform, Novena! With the Novena laptop kit, Ben and Felix begin setting up and building an open source laptop with Linux, FPGA and a...

Certain aspects of the Star Wars universe (FTL travel, force magic) are clearly impossible. But some technologies, like extremely high-powered thrusters and even lightsabers, may one day be feasible.

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