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NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has achieved yet another milestone: 2,000 Martian days (“sols”) of service. The rover has been rolling around the Red Planet since landing in August 2012. Since then, Curiosity has trave...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday unveiled an indictment in the Southern District of New York accusing nine Iranians of conspiring to hack into universities and businesses to steal intellectual property and ac...

Admit it, you don't really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth's outer core is creating a electric current, generating a magnetic field through it. But what's causing this movem...

Microsoft has doubled down on its green initiatives by entering into the largest corporate solar agreement in the US. The company announced that it has purchased 315MW of energy from a pair of solar projects located in V...

In the hopes of deterring violence, schools are turning to big data analytics to examine social media posts for the earliest signs of violence--depression, resentment, and isolation. Shawsheen Valley Technical High Schoo...

You're never going to play Clunker Junker in your living room or on your desktop PC, no matter how many GPUs it has. Hardware is the issue here, but it's not a matter of processing power -- Clunker Junker requires two LE...

If you live in North America and you'd like to buy a OnePlus 5T, well, sorry — you're out of luck. Not just temporarily, either — the startup confirmed to Engadget that it has sold every OnePlus 5T it made for the No...

Apple's education event next week is a break in tradition in more ways than one. Not only will it take place in Chicago instead of the company's usual homestead in Northern California, it will also not be livestreamed. I...

It has no inherent value and causes observers to rotate between feelings of fascination and anger. We're talking about cryptocurrency, but also art. In a new series, artist Andy Bauch is bringing the two subjects togethe...

Dropbox is having a great week thanks to a successful IPO, and you can get in on the fun. The company offers a trio of plans designed to meet all kinds of needs, but there’s a good chance you already have an account. A...

The 2019 Corolla Hatchback may have a slick new design and use the automaker’s clever new TNGA platform, but it’s what’s going on in the cabin which really suggests Toyota is finally serious about the dashboard. Se...

It wasn't too long ago that the emergence of the little-understood Zika virus in South and Central America led the US to recommend pregnant women avoid traveling to areas where it was spreading (a warning that remains in...

My apologies to anyone who doesn't happen to live in the Northeastern United States. I don't want you to feel bad for us. But I do want you to recognize the fact that we've been walloped with four enormous snowstorms in ...

When it comes to exercise, every bit really does count. A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that the life-extending benefits of physical activity can show up whether you...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

On Friday, Apple submitted a proposal to Emojipedia for a suite of new accessibility emoji. There are 13 in total, which expands to 43 when you take into account skin tone options. They include a guide and service dog, a...

Being one of the biggest games in the world at the moment, Fortnite is attracting all sorts of unsavory folks. We’re not just talking about in-game trolls here, but also people who would attempt to gain unauthorized ac...

Today Dropbox launched their IPO to what’s currently considered a rather excited public. The stock sits at +35.67% this afternoon, and it’s daily high is at $28.49 USD. This public offering came just over a decade af...

The first time I played Settlers of Catan was probably 2006. I didn't really know much about board games, aside from old classics like Monopoly, so when a friend brought it out at a party I was intrigued. To my surprise,...

British election authorities have reportedly acquired a warrant to search the London offices of Cambridge Analytica.

Rising CO2 levels aren't just dissolving coral reefs. They might be causing squid to act all kinds of weird.

Nest is giving Nest Cam IQ indoor camera early-adopters a free wall mount, filling in one of the more commonly complained-about omissions in the box. The more intelligent version of Nest’s indoor security camera, the N...