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Reddit is known for a handful of communities that have taken on a life of their own, and that includes communities taking their efforts off Reddit entirely. The creator of the popular r/changemyview subreddit, Kal Turnbu...

A small, experimental nuclear reactor being constructed by Argentina's state-backed nuclear company INVAP at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh has spurred renewed concerns about Saud...

Now that AMD has unveiled second-gen Ryzen chips for everyday laptops, it's turning its attention to the pro crowd. It's releasing a new wave of Ryzen Pro processors aimed at "premium" (but still highly portable) work ma...

The UK government plans to penalize tech companies like Facebook and Google that fail to curb the spread of harmful content on their platforms. As promised, the country is seeking to empower an independent regulator to e...

New York's bid to identify road-going terrorists with facial recognition isn't going very smoothly so far. The Wall Street Journal has obtained a Metropolitan Transportation Authority email showing that a 2018 technology...

It's April 2019--and perhaps the month that will later be known as the dawn of the Age of Fungus. A concerning report in the New York Times this weekend detailed how multiple strains of Candida auris, a drug-resistant sp...

If you were looking for another reason to hate the rich, Red Carpet Home Cinema is here to help out. For $1,500 to $3,000 per film, the company will let you rent first-run films from the comfort of your tricked out mansi...

In the Gulf of California, Mexico, a team of researchers dove deep and found a series of venting mineral towers. These towers were up to 10 meters across, 23 meters tall, and were “teeming with biodiversity and potenti...

Poor memory is a known consequence of normal aging, but a technology called transcranial stimulation may one day help elderly sufferers reverse the issue. A newly published study details work with the technology involvin...

For the first time ever, scientists placed alligator carcasses at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to see which bottom feeders might make a meal of the dead reptiles. The results came as a surprise even to the researcher...

Welcome to AIstrology. With the help of research scientist Janelle Shane, we developed a bot to generate monthly horoscopes. Its language faculties will be tweaked and trained as time goes on. Sometimes they may more clo...

Snapchat may soon get better for Android users, but that day is not today. On Monday, Snap teased its long-awaited Android redesign, something that should delight its frustrated users. But while the company is making cha...

A harrowing article in the New York Times this weekend has set plenty of people on edge. It details the rise of a fungal disease in hospitals that--like so many infections--has steadily become resistant to the drugs used...

At long last, RED is shipping the titanium version of its Hydrogen One phone. It promised the variant when it announced the handset in 2017, and took pre-orders for that version at the full $1,595 cost. When RED delayed ...

If your ears perked up when you heard that the next version of Microsoft Edge will be built using Chromium, then today is an exciting day. Microsoft has rolled out its first Insider builds of the new Edge, and though the...

There once was an era where transportation planners believed cars zipping along highways was the sustainable future of transportation. They thought every problem could be solved by more highways with more lanes. Some eve...

To weary enthusiasm, Facebook announced last month it would ban white nationalists and white separatists from the social network, dissolving the company's bizarre distinction between those ideologies and white supremacis...

Dogs are able to smell cancer in the blood of patients with an incredibly high level of success, according to a new study. The ability is due to the very high number of smell receptors dogs have, the same smell receptors...

In its first 24 hours, the music video for "Kill This Love" -- the latest single by K-pop quartet Blackpink -- reached 56.7 million YouTube views. It then went on to earn 100 million views in less than three days. That's...

Scientists think they've figured out how pyroclastic flows, fast-moving bringers of death during volcanic events, can travel such incredible distances and speeds despite the friction between the volcanic material and the...

Smartphones screens have been getting taller (or wider depending on how you hold them) for a little while now. But Sony has taken that idea to a whole new level with these lanky devices: the Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 Plus ...

Don’t fret, armageddon-fearing folks, NASA’s on the case just as much as Japan. They’ve not yet dropped the same amount of bombs as Japan – but that’s only really a small part of the party. Japan, the USA, Russ...