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According to the US Geological Survey, a 5.3 magnitude "explosion" has been detected in North Korea near the country's only known nuclear test site. North Korea has claimed to have tested nuclear weapons after similar se...

A disturbing new report shows that 1.3 million square miles of the Earth's wilderness has been lost since the 1990s--an area half the size of Australia. The researchers say this "catastrophic loss" highlights the need fo...

By Lauren Dragan This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer's guide to the best technology. Read the full article here. If we wanted to buy in-ear headphones for under $100, we'd get the Marshall Mode...

Verifying your identity with brainwave scans sounds pretty awesome on the surface, but new research from from Texas Tech University shows that EEG identification could be the start of a whole new world of privacy concern...

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a statement advising anyone who owns a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to "power them down and stop charging or using" them, the reason being due to the explosions re...

Bethesda has announced that there will no longer be mod support for its PlayStation 4 titles. Unfortunately, it seems Sony has informed the company that they will not be approving user mods in the way they "should work,"...

Facebook's trending news module is making headlines again, and this time it's for propping up 9/11 truther nonsense as "news." Instead of simply removing the offending article, however, the platform has now dropped the t...

While Hillary "Delete Your Account" Clinton might have a nuanced, albeit cringeworthy, understanding of how to utilize social media, the same cannot be said for her husband Bill. The New York Times reports that at a publ...

The San Francisco 49ers have teamed up with Amazon to make tailgating a little more convenient. Under this partnership, 49ers fans at Levi's Stadium will be able to order "essentials" using Amazon Prime Now and have thos...

While Samsung has already announced its own recall and replacement program for the Galaxy Note 7, following reports about the phone's potentially explosive batteries, it hasn't yet gone through the formal process with th...

If you own a GM vehicle from 2014-2017, listen up: General Motors is recalling nearly 4.3 million vehicles worldwide after discovering a software defect that prevents air bags from deploying during a crash. The software ...

Drought and bark beetle infestations have not been kind to western forests in recent years. California alone has an estimated 66 million dead trees speckling its landscapes and waiting to become wildfire fuel. To prevent...

Behold N159, a turbulent stellar nursery comprised of glowing gas and dark dust. Located over 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this type of nebula churns out some of the universe's largest stars.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission just released an official statement about the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Watching ATLAS evolve and master new skills is as fascinating as watching a child develop. Except the humanoid robot, seen here in the lab at Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, is gaining new capabiliti...

Mark Zuckerberg's other half, Dustin Moskovitz, has pledged to donate $20 million to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic efforts this election year. Moskovitz, a co-creator of ...

Did you know you've been pooping all wrong? It's true! Luckily, the obscenely popular Squatty Potty is designed to lift your legs into an ideal bowel movement position, and you can get the 7" model for just $17 on Amazon...

Fifty years is an enormous milestone, especially when you're talking about the relatively short history of television shows. So why on Earth and Vulcan did CBS and Paramount fail to capitalize on Star Trek's 50th anniver...

This week we're finding out that Cerber is 2016's biggest name in ransomware. Cerber didn't get to the top just by being good at infecting computers, locking up people's files, and blackmailing its victims for Bitcoin. T...

Ford Smart Mobility LLC is acquiring San Francisco-based crowdsourced shuttle service "Chariot," the company has announced. With it, Ford anticipates it will be able to offer an "affordable and convenient transportation"...

Facebook's trending news algorithm has failed once again. Earlier today, Facebook users who clicked on the "9/11" trending topic on the social network were directed to a tabloid story by The Daily Star, which claimed tha...

Wikileaks withheld a batch of emails showing a $2.2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a Russian government-owned bank, according to a Daily Dot report. If true, the report will likely have a lasting negat...