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What do you get when you marry two of Earth's most dramatic natural events, lightning and volcanoes? The answer is a "dirty storm," an infernal melange of lightning, magmatic fire and ash that surpasses even the wildest ...

While it's doubtful that the US will catch the Russians accused of participating in the massive 2014 Yahoo breach, a third culprit appears ready to cooperate. Reuters has discovered that Canadian citizen Karim Baratov is...

The fight against malaria has been improving, but there's still lots more work to do. For one thing, anti-larval sprays are both expensive and time-consuming -- you can't always afford to spray an entire area. Thankfully...

Android Oreo has been out for months now but, naturally, most OEMs haven't been quick to jump into it. But they do say "better late than never" and, to be fair, it isn't exactly that late yet anyway. As if scheduled to c...

In recent weeks, YouTube users on iOS began reporting an issue with the app that was causing it to drain their iPhone battery rapidly. Due to the rapid battery drain, these users reported that their device would get very...

Remember last week when we told you about “Mad” Mike Hughes, a self-proclaimed flat-Earther who decided to build a steam-powered rocket and use it to launch himself 1,800 feet up? That launch – which was also going...

The Los Angeles Times has lots of challenges, including years of harsh staff cuts, a corporate parent of questionable value, and an ongoing union drive at a historically anti-union company. Brand-new Times editor Lewis D...

Amazon has announced that Prime Video will be the exclusive streaming platform in the US of the six-part series The Last Post, which recently aired in the UK on BBC One. The show takes place during the mid-1960s in curre...

This week Pokemon GO users will find a number of bonuses applied to their everyday game, thanks to millions of users worldwide. The challenges set up by Niantic earlier this month had users aim to catch thousands, then m...

When money is no object, and you feel the need for attention on the school run, the 2018 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 SUV with its handcrafted 4.0-liter V8 biturbo engine is the ultimate midsize SUV for the family. If you can’t...

It's tempting to compete for a spot in the Overwatch League -- make it big and you could earn a solid income from your Mercy or Reinhardt skills. But getting there isn't necessarily easy, and Blizzard thinks it can help....

Ever since the first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, died abnormally young, there's been plenty of talk about clone aging. Now, scientists have cloned the world's first cloned dog in order to study these "re-clones" to d...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft might be the most famous time capsule in history, soaring through space as a testament to humanity's achievements. We don't know if intelligent life will ever find the craft or its contents, laun...

Forget the Upside Down. The real strangest thing of 2017 is that the White House has chosen to get into the Christmas spirit by making the Presidential residence look like a dark alternate dimension where everything is d...

Facebook’s latest suicide prevention tool update doesn’t rely on user reports to detect suicidal users, instead using artificial intelligence to detect when a user may be experiencing suicidal thoughts. This ability ...

Today the final preview version of Android 8.1 Oreo was released to those users that’ve opted in to the program. This version of Android brings features to Android Go, Neural Networks API features for a number of devic...

Facebook is expanding its limited test run for suicide- and -self-harm reporting tools to the masses. To get better at detection the social network will begin implementing pattern recognition for posts and Live videos to...

The fallback position from Windows phones: running Microsoft apps on Android.

It's the end of an era for Tumblr fans. David Karp, Tumblr's founder, has resigned from his CEO position after 11 years at the job. The company's operations chief, Jeff D'Onofrio, is taking the reins. Karp didn't go into...

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Logitech has a pretty decent track record when it comes to rolling out presentation remote controls that will deliver a punch if you would like to deliver your point in a room full of people. This time around, the Swiss-...

Stratasys has unveiled 3D-printed organs and bones called BioMimics, and with them doctors can train without using cadavers, animals, and other hard-to-obtain materials. The 3D printed models are said to be highly realis...