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Despite some concerns about bugs and even privacy, Windows 10 is proving a huge hit. The company has announced that 200 million monthly active devices around the world are running Windows 10 and the pace is accelerating. → Read More
SpaceX’s audacious vertical rocket landing on Monday lays a critical foundation for reusable rockets that could help humans colonize Mars, according to the company’s CEO Elon Musk. → Read More
When it comes to generating buzz, video game giant Nintendo has been doing so by keeping mum about what's under development, but its recent patent filing has some speculating that touchscreen technology is coming to a gamepad near them. → Read More
US Air Force pilots are flying the newest fighter jets in a virtual world. The military’s fifth generation fighter jet, the F-35 Lightning II, will be flown by the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. → Read More
China’s cyber chief rejected criticism of the country’s Internet censorship Wednesday. The comments by Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, came ahead of next week’s state-sponsored World Internet Conference in the town of Wuzhen. → Read More
Ever wanted your own personal flying machine? Well, a team of engineering students at the National University of Singapore (NUS) appear to be one step closer to making that a reality after they successfully tested a craft that is capable of vertical take-off and landing with one person on board. → Read More
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescope have found what they believe is the faintest object ever seen in the early universe, a galaxy that existed 13.8 billion years ago or about 400 million years after the big bang. → Read More
Marty McFly would not approve of this item. Lafitte, LA resident Jessica Horne and her 12-year-old son were in for a surprise last week when his ‘hoverboard’ caught fire just one day after he received it. → Read More
In a battle of missile versus missile, the PAC-3 continues to blast threats out of the sky. In two separate tests at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico earlier this month, the PAC-3 performed well. As part of U.S. → Read More
Just days after the hacker group Anonymous pledged to hunt down Islamic State members and launch cyberattacks against their accounts, a separate group of techies claims it has identified a key funding avenue for the terror network – bitcoin accounts. → Read More
The truth is out there … maybe. A photo tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly is generating plenty of extraterrestrial buzz. Kelly, who recently broke the U.S. record for most days in space, tweeted the picture taken from the International Space Station Sunday. https://twitter. → Read More
Yamaha’s versatile, all rounder MT-09 Tracer Police is making its debut this week at Milipol in Paris. The Tracer was developed for police patrols and rapid response in urban environments. The light and narrow bike, with an aluminum die-cast frame, combines flexibility with quickness. → Read More
Astronomers have spotted the most distant object in our solar system, which could challenge the theories about how our planets formed. Using the Subaru telescope located on the summit of Mauna Kea,... → Read More
A team of researchers has come up with a system that allows anyone to make a walking robot using only a 3-D printer and an off-the-shelf motor. The robot, which has four legs and is about the size of an adult hand, doesn’t do much more than walk across a tabletop. → Read More
For the first time, scientists have captured an image of a glowing debris ring that formed as a result of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star. Captured by scientists at the University of Warwick in the U.K. → Read More
The military may have a potent new weapon in its arsenal, but it doesn’t involve state-of-the-art hardware or phenomenal firepower. The U.S. Army has successfully used a desktop computer to determine what target image a soldier was thinking about. → Read More
A pivotal operation in the lead up to D-Day during World War II was a deception plan using dummy airfields and landing craft to mask the actual Allied landing sites. → Read More
A Chilean desert is ablaze in purple, bright pink and white, courtesy of wild flowers that bloomed following deadly floods in the South American country. The floods in March killed as many as 28 people and sparked widespread mudslides. → Read More
Scientists have for the first time detected oxygen on a comet, a finding that could upend theories about how the solar system was formed. Reporting their findings in the journal Nature on Wednesday... → Read More
A mysterious piece of space junk dubbed WT1190F will enter Earth’s atmosphere on Friday Nov. 13, scientists say, plunging into the Indian Ocean about 62 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka. → Read More