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The LightSail 2 solar spacecraft has successfully deployed its solar sail, the team at the Planetary Society has announced. Plans to deploy the solar sail today were first revealed on July 19, during which time the team ...

Google has confirmed Google Photos now has more than a billion users. It surpassed the milestone earlier this summer, a little over four years after it unveiled Photos, Google told Fast Company in a profile of the servic...

The Earth has an issue with space debris in orbit in the form of failed satellites and other items. The challenge is in removing the space debris before it accumulates or poses a risk to functioning satellites and spacec...

A new sensor designed by MIT is meant to help doctors and caregivers in hospitals to more quickly diagnose a condition that kills 250,000 people annually. The condition is sepsis, and the quicker treatment can start, the...

Leaks in the mobile industry these days have gotten so bad that it’s almost pointless for companies to try and keep a lid on things, especially with legal threats. While confirmation can really only come from the offic...

It's not always as quick as you might like to pick up a pizza on the way home, but Pizza Hut might have a solution: borrow a page from the online shopping world. Its Hollywood restaurant (6660 Sunset Boulevard) has start...

Federal agencies are once again poised to test emergency alerts, but this time it's all about where you won't see them. The FCC and FEMA are conducting their fifth nationwide Emergency Alert System test on August 7th at ...

The folks at Valve released new Valve Index VR headset kits today for immediate shipping in the USA. The Valve Index VR system was actually first released in late June, but “initial quantities were outpaced by demand.�...

Two Republicans and one independent were the only holdouts Wednesday as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act by a nearly unanimous vote.

You know what none of us needs more of in our homes? Amazon products. And yet that's exactly what's promised to prospective homebuyers should they decide to purchase through its new TurnKey service. The company will repo...

Over the past couple months, there’s been a fundamental shift in the way my kids play video games. Before the Nintendo Switch arrived in the mail, my kids played nothing but Minecraft* on our Xbox One. We also had a Pl...

Tesla may have broken a quarterly record by delivering 95,356 cars over the past three months, but its latest earnings report is leaving its fans and its stockholders wary. Yes, all those cars delivered helped the compan...

A tiny spacecraft in Earth orbit has successfully deployed its solar sails. Called LightSail 2, the craft will now use the power of the Sun to lift its orbital height even further, in what's considered an important test ...

AT&T is planning to launch another streaming television service, the company revealed in a financial report detailing its second-quarter earnings. Assuming everything goes according to plan, AT&T will start testing the s...

Microsoft is rolling out a couple of tests that could change the look of Xbox One's Home section as well as how you control the console via Cortana. Xbox Insiders should be able to check out the updates in the next few d...

It's no secret that Spotify and Apple have beef. But according to a Variety interview with the authors of a new book, Spotify Untold, that beef dates all the way back to 2010 when Steve Jobs would purportedly prank call ...

Facebook's $5 billion FTC fine is historic, but everybody knew it was coming. Three months ago, during its last quarterly earnings report, the social network estimated that it would be fined between $3 billion and $5 bil...

Corsair is a pretty well-known name in the PC gaming scene, as it offers a number of gaming PC components and peripherals. More specifically, you’ll often see Corsair’s power supplies recommended to people who are lo...

Millions of adults are taking low-dose aspirin daily without their doctor’s recommendation, according to a new study, jeopardizing their health in the process. Though some health officials previously recommended daily ...

When it comes to image recognition tech, it's still remarkably easy to fool the machines. And while it's some good comedy when a neural network mistakes a butterfly for a washing machine, the consequences of this idiocy ...

At Comic-Con last week, Netflix finally, after months of teasing, gave us our first look at The Witcher in action. Not only did it reveal some pretty major, if unsurprising connections to the world of Andrzej Sapkowski's...

The end of summer is usually a time when things wind down, but August is likely to be a banner month for Netflix. We'll finally find out what happens to the ragtag crew of professional female wrestlers in Las Vegas with ...