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Apple has been lauded for its beautiful products but, for some, that design focus has a darker side as well. The company has been accused of sacrificing practicality and even usability for the sake of beauty or thinness ...

Excessive exposure to the Sun's harmful rays is an occupational hazard endured by astronauts, who run the risk of contracting cancer and heart disease as a result. At least that's what we thought. New research shows that...

The weather forecast is one of the most ubiquitous things in our daily lives. People talk about it when there's nothing else to say, farmers from the Midwest to Mali use it to decide when to plant crops, and everyone lov...

While most businesses today have upgraded to computer-centric workflows, one aspect seems to still remain distinctively analog. The meeting room whiteboard, still an indispensable tool for collaboration and explanation, ...

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LightSail 2, the spacecraft launched as part of the crowdfunded solar sail project called LightSail, was the subject of an update from the Planetary Society today. According to the team behind the project, the public now...

The Rolls-Royce brand is known for many things. It can either be the magic carpet ride, or the immensely powerful engines for both motorcars and the aviation industry. Most of all, though, Rolls-Royce motorcars are known...

Today we’re taking a peek at some code from the latest version of the Google Camera app for Pixel devices. This app delivers some of the most interesting and powerful photography abilities to the mobile smartphone worl...

This year's Independence Day in Anchorage, Alaska, is not one its residents will soon forget as the temperature got as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), establishing a new record for the northern city.

Just how far can you squeeze a turbo-four? If you’re Mercedes-AMG, then the answer is to record-setting levels, with the new M139 hailed as the world's most powerful series-production turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued another salmonella warning, but this one doesn’t involve hedgehogs or eggs. According to the agency, dried pig ears sold as dog treats are the likely source of ...

Scientists in Florida have detected the largest seaweed bloom in the world. Extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the African coast, the unusually large bloom is threatening marine life and coastal regions, with the resea...

As it does every week, the free game on offer through the Epic Games Store has rotated once again. This time around, the free game is Overcooked, and those of you who are fans of local co-op will definitely want to check...

More and more Americans are scooping up 65-inch TVs, so much so that they're now apparently the most popular screen size in the country. Market research company TrendForce reckons tumbling prices have led to a shift in t...

It would seem that the developers of the Japan-based 7-Eleven wallet app (7 Pay) had not heard of phone fraud. If they had, they’d have built a more secure method of changing user passwords in said app. As a result of ...

More than twenty years after the release of the first Pokémon movie, the film is being reimagined with an all-new computer-generated release in Japan. The first trailer dropped at the start of this year, and now a secon...

It's not quite as challenging as actually landing a pair of astronauts on the moon, but aerospace engineer and talented toy hacker Adam Woodworth has managed to upgrade Lego's Apollo 11 Lunar Lander set with all the moto...

Somehow, Seinfeld is turning 30 years old today. If that little fact didn’t spark an exestential crisis and you’re still with us, then good news: you can celebrate Seinfeld‘s 30th anniversary by using Hulu’s new ...

In the near future, we’ll be using machines to read research papers and make connections humans have not yet made. A paper published in the scientific journal Nature outlined how old scientific research papers contain ...

Gogoro is expanding its on-demand scooter rental service. In August, the two-wheeled, electric Smartscooters will be available as part of a ridesharing program in Taiwan called GoShare. The scooters will use Gogoro's swa...

Volkswagen promised something incredible from the VW ID.R electric race car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but we didn’t expect the EV to deliver quite as impressively as it has today. Driven by Romain Dumas, the I...

You don't know what you have until it's gone is a well-worn cliche, but also an apt description of a web game called User Inyerface, created by design firm Bagaar. It takes all the normal conventions of a website's user ...