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Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing's 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage , and now an innocent iPhone h...

Optogenetics, or mixing gene therapy with light treatments, is finally getting a proper field test: doctors have given a blind Texas woman the first optogenetics-based therapy in hopes of restoring some of the vision los...

Salim PK, a police officer in Delhi, India, was captured on video while allegedly drunk on a metro train. Video of him staggering and falling over went viral. But doctors have confirmed what he insisted all along: He was...

Ever wondered if your choice of job was influenced by what your parents did for a living? Well, researchers at Facebook have taken a look at parent-child profession choices to find out.

Manning the NOAA's research station at the South Pole is a lonely job at the best of times. But when you're watching the last sunset for half a year, things have to be feeling particularly bleak.

Before digital copies of video games proliferated, there was a sub-market that thrived in selling second hand, or "slightly used", cartridges and discs for a fraction of the original price. GameStop is just the latest an...

There's a photo currently swirling around the great big toilet bowl of social media that supposedly shows President Obama in Cuba. He's pointing and smiling at an illustration of a naked Donald Trump. An illustration of ...

At today's Apple event, executive Phil Schiller called people who own computers that are more than five years old "sad." That was a silly thing to say, Phil!

If you have a Kindle and you haven't updated it recently, your time to procrastinate has just about reached its end. The deadline for a critical update that will ensure you can continue using your Kindle is tomorrow; fai...

A 46-year-old man who underwent a bone marrow transplant has suddenly contracted an allergy to kiwi fruit. Scientists say it's the first evidence that allergies can be carried to a patient from a donor's stem cells.

Another Apple event came and went today, ho-hum. The surprisingly succinct press conference highlighted the company's environmental efforts, a bit of shade thrown the FBI's way and a couple new products. Apple unveiled f...

Apple had an event today, and if you were anywhere near the internet, you most likely saw some of the digital commotion wrought by the company's live-reading of a press release.

Shot using a DJI Osmo stabilized camera to ensure buttery smooth footage, Rufus Blackwell's hyperlapse video of Saigon, Vietnam, somehow makes the city more beautiful even though you feel as if you're racing through it a...

Today we got up close and personal with Apple's newest bands for the Apple Watch. These are the Woven Nylon bands in a variety of colors - they'll have Gold/Red, Gold/Royal Blue, Royal Blue, Pink, Pearl, Scuba Blue, and ...

New research presented today at the 2016 Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference reveals tropic and arctic regions on Pluto, and a dynamic climate cycle that's causing its atmosphere to fluctuate in size over time--possi...

Who said that Spotify was going to lose customers just because rivals like Apple Music were in town? Certainly not Spotify. Founder Daniel Ek has revealed that his streaming music service has 30 million subscribers (that...

The new DOOM is arriving on May 13, and it'll be bringing multiplayer modes with it. Bethesda has detailed all six planned multiplayer mode, and has dropped a trailer that shows a snippet of gameplay. The six multiplayer...

Hockey pucks get put through a lot in the name of internet views. We've seen then burned , frozen , and shot at , and they manage to survive unscathed. But the indestructible puck has finally met its match under a hydrau...

They might not be "exciting," but they both seem like great upgrades.

While I was watching the Apple Town Hall livestream, Phil Schiller kept calling the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro "The ultimate PC replacement." Now I watched the whole thing, and I could only come to one conclusion. The iPad Pr...

Last year's iPad Pro was without question the most powerful tablet Apple ever made, but let's be real: Its size made it a complete non-starter for some people. That's why the folks in Cupertino took all the things that m...

"For gamers, by gamers" is the kind of motto that sells liquid-cooled spec-obsessed towers, headsets, rumbling lounge chairs, and ergonomic mice with more buttons than a double-breasted suit. Razer, however, has these wo...