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Thanks to boosts in visibility when it comes to search and web browsers, you've probably noticed more websites (like Engadget) switching to S, which uses encryption to secure the connection between browser and server. De...

Those involved in the design and manufacturing of hardware products understand that one of the most important phases of the process is testing. That's the point when all of the assumptions that have been made …

Earlier today, Wikileaks tweeted out a series of three terse, confusing messages, each containing a 64-character code. Now a lot of people think Julian Assange is dead.

As President Barack Obama's administration enters its final stages, he's paying more attention to what's going on way, way above us than expected. Just days after the president outlined his vision for landing humans on M...

Jadon and Anias McDonald were born joined at the head last September. On Thursday evening, 40 medical professionals spent 16 hours disconnecting Jadon and Anias in a rare operation. The McDonalds are from Coal City, Illi...

While companies like Apple use third-party companies to test its phone batteries, a new report reveals that Samsung tested the exploding Galaxy Note 7 battery in-house. The Wall Street Journal reports:

This week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people--including two police officers and a hospital worker--experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness bel...

Under the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, but according to one group of federal prosecutors, just being in the wrong house at the wrong time is cause enough to make eve...

Make yourself stand out this Halloween and anytime throughout the year by wearing this absolutely stunning Pigeon Mask. Create your own flock with friends by buying a bunch of these at one time and then have real fun on ...

Car makers have an interesting quandary to solve. On the one hand, everyone, including governments, demand more environment-friendly output from their cars. On the other hand, buyers and loyal fans also demand at least t...

Display makers might be obsessed with flexible and bendable screens, but such LCDs and OLEDs aren't the only ways to make an interesting display. What about one that floats in mid air? That's precisely what engineers fro...

Tesla has entered a deal with Panasonic to manufacture solar panels at the new SolarCity facility in Buffalo, NY. However, the deal is non-binding and depends on shareholder approval of Tesla's $2.6 billion acquisition o...

Even, or especially, good things must come to an end. While the usual turnover for smartphones and computers is usually claimed to be two years, various laws mandate that manufacturers offer parts and repairs far longer ...

There's a long-standing theory that you can tell which tweets Trump writes himself and which ones are sent by his campaign based on the device they're sent from. After analyzing Trump's tweets, data scientist David Robin...

Apple isn't letting Samsung's acquisition of Viv go unanswered. The Cupertino crew has hired Russ Salakhutdinov, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as a director of artificial intelligence resear...

Tesla may already be having problems at home related to its autopilot features, especially after a string of incidents involving mishaps and at least one death, but now it might also be facing troubles abroad simply beca...

Soon, it will probably be easier to talk about what Xiaomi isn't doing yet rather than what the growing Chinese giant is doing next. Following last week's leak of Xiaomi's supposedly flexible display prototype, there is ...

Researchers have used quantum computing tech to miniaturize a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, making it small enough to pick up the structure of single biomolecules without damaging them or losing information i...

If you have insurance on your phone and smash the ever-loving tar out of the screen, you normally have to file a claim, pay a deductible and wait for a replacement device. Bleh. AT&T and its insurance provider Asurion, h...

Anderson Cooper just teased his forthcoming interview with Melania Trump on CNN. In it, Anderson says, Melania Trump talked about how she would work to combat "online bullying" as First Lady. Do I even need to explain th...

Several porn websites have a new tactic to alert their electorate living in California: Blocking them. On the ballot next month is proposition 60, which would require adult performers to use condoms for all videos made i...

Interior of the Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor at MIT, which was shut off on September 30th. Image: Bob Mumgaard/Plasma Science and Fusion Center/MIT MIT's fusion program has fallen on hard times, but that hasn't stopped i...