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After an explosive increase in commercial drone registrations in 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration has revised its predictions for the sector and now expects it to triple in size by the year 2023, according to Ne...

As much as Epic might like to mess with Fortnite's environment, Tilted Towers has remained sacrosanct. It's not hard to see why -- it's widely considered the most popular drop spot in the game, and it's where you go if y...

This week, Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram banned a number of far-right figures, including white supremacists and conspiracy theorists, in a somewhat clumsily executed effort to rid itself entirely of figures like ...

Lockheed Martin has announced that the heat shield for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has passed a critical testing milestone. The component was exposed to “flight-like thermal conditions,” according to the company, which ...

It's now that much quicker for Brits to pay for official services online -- if you use the right services. The UK government now supports Apple Pay and Google Pay for a handful of online services as part of a trial. Righ...

Japan can finally include itself among the ranks of countries with successful private spaceflight outfits. Interstellar Technologies has successfully launched its MOMO-3 sounding rocket into space, with the vehicle easil...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing tons of space images since it entered orbit in 1990. Now, NASA has put together a mosaic photo using 16 years' worth of data to create one of the widest views of the universe...

Sometimes, actors just need to say something. Anything. That's a lot of pressure, especially when you're under stress. So occasionally you say weird things.

Aerospace company Interstellar Technologies Inc. became the first private firm in Japan to launch a rocket into space on Saturday, per the Japan Times, by sending an unmanned, 10-meter, one-ton Momo-3 rocket some 68 mile...

Apple's plans to expand support for mass transit now appear likely to hinge around its next big iOS 12 update. Tap Down Under has found code within iOS 12.3 that hints at support for EMV payment cards (think credit cards...

Game of Thrones has just three episodes left to air, and clips from one of them are reportedly already circulating online hours before its premiere tonight, according to reports in Deadline and Variety and posts on Reddi...

The only thing Game of Thrones' last season was lacking was, let's be real, a great tie-in album, and now it's got one. For the Throne, out now, is an album full of songs inspired by Game of Thrones, and now the lead sin...

A breakthrough in studying light might just be the ticket to the future of quantum computing. Researchers at EPFL have found a way to determine how light behaves beyond the limitations of wavelengths, opening the door to...

Sonic the Hedgehog doesn't look promising. But it definitely has room to look... stranger.

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Equipped with only dining hall spoons, the clothes on their backs, and pure archaeological curiosity, undergraduates at Cambridge's Newnham College in 1939 were given a crash course in field work when their professor, Do...

Marvel's 1991 The Infinity Gauntlet storyline was a star-making event for Thanos, an alien tyrant with dreams of intergalactic genocide who was literally in love with Marvel's personification of death, but that saga is s...

Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you this week a broken man. My childhood dream of seeing a speedy video game rodent hero break the fourth wall and go on a road trip with a middling white male actor I only sort of recogni...

Dan Carlin, the man behind popular podcast Hardcore History, has teamed with MWM Immersive to announce War Remains, a virtual reality experience that takes viewers into the First World War via “practical effects and a ...

Well, less walking. More hopping. Waddling?

A newly published study details the optimization of a previously developed blood test for detecting Alzheimer’s disease. Though the original test could successfully detect the disease’s presence before symptoms start...

Prepare yourself for Google I/O with a roundup of in-the-works projects.