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Scientists at the University of Manchester, led by Professor Ross D. King, have created a new DNA-based computing device. If you think of DNA as being the code for generating life, then it's not hard to see it as capable...

Tesla doesn't need to advertise -- thanks to word-of-mouth and Elon Musk's 7.5 million strong Twitter account, it sold 400,000 Model 3 electric cars without anyone even taking a test drive. However, a fifth-grader named ...

In a regulatory filing, Yahoo revealed some additional details about data breaches that have affected over a billion accounts. Among that information is the news that hackers who obtained Yahoo's code and were able to cr...

Channel your inner Mozart and master the piano with the RainPlay Piano Teaching Device. Placing directly above the keys, this incredible device gives you a note-by-note guide for a variety of music pieces. RainPlay comes...

Whether you’re spending your day hard at work at the office or reflecting in the great outdoors, it never hurts to get a boost of inspiration. With the Modern Block collection of Everyday Goods, you get a constant remi...

Twitter's initial foray into livestreaming eSports must have went well, as it's expanding the range of tournaments it covers in a big way. The social network has reached deals to stream 15-plus ESL One, DreamHack and Int...

A series of leaked emails reportedly suggest that Snapchat may have behaved questionably when dealing with a gun safety charity. Mic claims to have seen messages between the startup and the non-profit Everytown for Gun S...

The lights dimmed and a hush fell over the crowd. The last hour had been building to this. Denis Sverdlov, CEO of Roborace, and Daniel Simon, chief design officer, took a step back as some knee-high panels were taken awa...

Humans are obsessed with sleep. We've not getting enough of it, and the tech world is flooded with wearables that confirm this fact. Now, scientists hope using activity monitors to study how and why animals sleep will he...

Researchers have discovered what might end up being the oldest fossils ever found, it has been announced, ones that fall into the so-called "microfossils" designation. You can't see these tiny fossils with the naked eye,...

A month and a half ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted IBM Patent 9,547,842, which is an email system designed to automatically send messages informing inquiring bodies that said person is absent from...

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Last we heard, Spotify had some 40 million subscribers. That was so 2016. Now the music streaming service has announced it's pushed past 50 million paying subscribers. Feel like helping the company celebrate? Well, you c...

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Although it sounds like The Hunger Games in space, Germany's "Die Astronautin" competition--which means "the female astronaut"--seeks to put the first German woman into space. In March 2016, 400 women entered the competi...

Microsoft's OneDrive storage had a bit of a tumultuous couple years, with the company first giving certain customers unlimited data and then later rescinding the 'unlimited' part of that equation when people starting usi...

Since its debut on Linux last July, Skype's engineering team has been hard at work, fleshing out the open platform's features and making it more user-friendly. The team announced on Thursday that it has made enough progr...

Sorry, Logan does not have an end credits scene. That's just a fact. But that doesn't mean Fox doesn't want to give something for fans for freak out about, and now we know what it is.

For the past three weeks, biologists aboard the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer have been investigating marine sanctuaries in the American Samoan region of the Pacific. They've found a smattering of weird and dazzling creatur...

After dropping a couple of hints over the past few weeks, Blizzard has at last revealed Overwatch‘s next hero, a tank character named Orisa. Though fans initially suspected a new character by the name of Efi Oladele, i...

A routine military drone test quickly turned into something more bizarre, after the missing aircraft mysteriously turned up ten days later over 600 miles away. While testing an RQ-7 "Shadow" drone at Fort Huachuca in Ari...

If you're enough of a daredevil to give yourself a haircut, Remington's Shortcut Pro makes the process as simple as possible.