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Billionaire whiz kid Elon Musk, who last year announced his plan to send a group of astronauts either incredibly brave or incredibly eager to get off this dumb planet to colonize Mars, is poised to give a big update on t...

Nintendo has revealed that it will be shutting down one of the cornerstones of Wii: the Wii Shop channel. The good news is that the shut down isn’t going to happen for a while yet, though Nintendo will begin winding it...

If you're counting down the days until NASA's Hubble replacement takes off, you'll have to count a bit longer. The James Webb Space Telescope was due to launch around a year from now. But, there seems to be (another) hol...

Scifi comedy short Brian and Charles unfolds on an isolated farm in England, where a desperately lonely man builds a robot companion for himself--and soon finds that his new relationship, even though it's with an artific...

Have no fear! Tiny cube bot is here!

Tesla is sending hundreds of its Powerwall battery systems to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. The commonwealth has been almost entirely without power since after Hurricane Maria made landfall on September 20th and tore up its...

It would appear that the iPhone 8 Plus may have a manufacturing problem on its hands – maybe, possibly. Two and possibly three separate events seem to have appeared in which the iPhone 8 Plus’s display has popped up ...

The era of artificial intelligence is upon us, and Apple is working to get a solid place in it with the development of proprietary semiconductors, according to sources. The company recently revealed an artificial intelli...

Starting October 18 the Department of Homeland Security will collect and store "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" in the permanent files of all immigrants. This will ...

At least one man is dead following a dramatic series of rockslides at Yosemite's iconic El Capitan on Wednesday. A second "significantly larger" rockfall occurred a day later, dropping thousands of tons of rock to the fo...

Earlier this month, when the biotech firm Human Longevity published a controversial paper claiming that it could predict what a person looks like based on only a teeny bit of DNA, it was just a little over a week before ...

Back in 2015, Uber added some features for drivers who were deaf and hard of hearing, including visual notifications of impending rides. Today, as a wrap-up for National Deaf Awareness Month, Uber has updated its main ap...

A "quantum satellite" sounds at home in the James Bond franchise, but there really is a satellite named Micius with some truly quantum assignments. In this case, it helped the president of the Chinese Academy of Science ...

It claims to repel mosquitoes with ultrasonic waves, but scientists are skeptical.

Apple touts its closed ecosystem as a security advantage. Because it tightly controls its hardware and software, Apple can push security updates much more quickly than an open system like Android. But researchers at Duo ...

Nintendo has added the first classic game you can buy on the Switch Eshop: The original Mario Bros (the arcade game, not the NES platformer). The title was announced during Nintendo Direct earlier this month as the first...

It's been way over a month since the last time we posted a deal on Haribo Gold Bears, so you've finished your last bag and you're ready for a resupply, Amazon's marked it back down to $9 with Subscribe & Save, or $10 wit...

Thought to have been Lord Krishna's favorite animal, the cow has achieved a uniquely sacred status in India. Their slaughter is prohibited through most of the country, beef consumption is largely outlawed as well and woe...

By and large, the SNES Classic Edition is a great little retro console, but there are three major problems with it: it has a limited library considering all the great games were released for the SNES, there’s no conven...

Building the world's largest telescope has proven to be even more difficult than one might expect. The Thirty Meter Telescope, which has been planned for construction atop of Hawaii's Mauna Kea, has hit a number of snags...

In what marks a new first for the administration, the FAA will ban civilians and companies from operating drones in and around major Department of Interior destinations throughout the US. These destinations are mostly ho...

On Thursday Whole Foods publicly revealed that a data breach had potentially compromised its customers' credit card details. But a day later, we still know nothing about which customers, or how many of them, may have bee...