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The brutal American Southwest megadrought responsible for conjuring up these horrific images of dried-up lakes and reservoirs is officially one of the worst prolonged droughts in recorded human history, one built largely...

Jared Isaacman, mission commander for the first all-private trek to Earth orbit, can't get enough of space. The billionaire space tourist has purchased three new flights with SpaceX, including one that could launch later...

The awkward tech couple accused of trying to launder billions of dollars in stolen Bitcoin has been temporarily split up. Jailed since their early February arrest, the husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, remains behind bars,...

If you're planning on updating your PC, make sure you only follow official methods, as there's new malware in the wild pretending to be a Windows 11 installer.

Netflix's next big project is a movie adaptation of the hit BioShock video game series, though the company is keeping a lid on what fans can expect.

Now that Virgin Galactic has a working spaceflight system, it needs to sell rides. The company has announced that it's opening ticket sales to the general public starting on February 16th, letting you become an astronaut...

The BlackByte ransomware group has compromised entities in at least three US critical infrastructure sectors, according to a joint warning issued (PDF) by the FBI and the US Secret Service on February 11th. Days after th...

SpaceX has to wait until March 28th to find out if the Federal Aviation Administration is giving it clearance to launch Starship flights out of its facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The agency is conducting an environmental...

Tips for cleaning your camera lenses from a professional photographer, and the equipment needed to do so, along with advice on how not to clean them.

A group of people attending a bar in Bavaria, Germany, were poisoned over the weekend by tainted champagne containing the drug ecstasy, authorities say. Several people were hospitalized after drinking the spiked concocti...

Peloton bikes are not cheap. Fortunately, there are more affordable alternatives from top brands including Schwinn, Bowflex, and NordicTrack.

Israeli authorities say it should be probed and U.S. authorities are calling for it to be sanctioned, but EU officials have a different idea for how to handle Pegasus spyware: just ban that shit entirely.

Android 13's KVM support is for enhanced security, but you can also hijack it for fun.

A 58-foot-tall wall of water that appeared off Vancouver Island in 2020 is among the largest rogue waves ever recorded, and it's the very largest in terms of its proportion to surrounding waves, according to scientists.

Twitter is expanding access to its Safety Mode by bringing the beta to around 50 percent of accounts in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. The company started testing the feature in September with a ...

For a decade, Star Wars: The Old Republic has been telling a tale thousands of years before the movies about the cyclical conflict between Jedi and Sith, and Republic and Empire. So it's only natural at this point that i...

Developed with content creators in mind, the Pivo Pod auto-tracking camera accessory series is pretty impressive. Altogether, the collection includes the Pod Lite, Pod One, Pod Active, Pod Gold, and Pod Black. The Pod Li...

Online test takers around the country are reportedly getting tricked into using fake answer sites surreptitiously snitching on them to universities, a sneaky practice some education advocates claim amounts to entrapment....

You can count burger-flipping robots as one pandemic innovation that's here to stay. White Castle announced today that it will be bringing Flippy 2, a robot chef that can essentially perform the same tasks as a team of f...

The CEO of a Texas construction company, who once loaned Donald Trump's re-election campaign the use of a private jet, only to secure a presidential pardon for his father later, has declined to discuss the $20,000 donate...

Dead by Daylight is no stranger to high-profile crossovers. Icons like Leatherface, Freddy Krueger and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill are just some of the characters that have joined the game's roster in the years since i...

Some cute little plants in Antarctica are flourishing in warmer temperatures--an ominous sign for rest of the continent and the world. A study published Monday in Current Biology finds that the continent's only flowering...