Hawaii's Kilauea Eruption Is Shrouding Distant Islands In 'Vog'
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting for pretty much the entire month of May, slowly oozing molten rock out of several fissures in the ground.…
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Scientists Now Know Exactly Where To Look For Fossils On Mars
Nobody knows for sure whether or not life had ever taken root on Mars. The dry, dusty planet doesn't seem like a particularly hospitable place…
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Take A Swig Of Cockroach Milk, The Next Great Food Trend
Tired of seeing "gluten free" on every box at your local grocery store (even though it has absolutely no benefit for 99% of the population)?…
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How To Check If Alexa Or Google Assistant Is Secretly Recording You
Last week, we learned a little more about the very human flaws of Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant. One couple in Portland, OR, discovered that their…
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Here's What A NASA Camera Sees Just Before It Dies
When NASA's GRACE satellites headed skyward aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket earlier this month, everything went relatively smoothly. That is, unless you were one…
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Amazon Alexa Recording 'Bug' Shows How Little We Actually Know About Our Smart Home Gadgets
Yesterday, the news cycle worked overtime to first bring us the story of how an Amazon Echo secretly sent recordings of a couple's conversations to…
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Apple Now Offering Refurbished Apple Watch Models With LTE Connectivity On The Cheap
For the first time since launching last year, Apple is now selling refurbished Apple Watch models with LTE connectivity on its online store. If you've…
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These Were The Only Birds That Survived The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
When the asteroid that struck the Earth in Chicxulub, Mexico, slammed into the surface some 66 million years ago it made life incredibly difficult for…
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As Netflix Shares Continue To Surge, Streaming Giant Is Now Worth More Than Disney
What Netflix has managed to accomplish in a relatively short amount of time is nothing short of astounding. The streaming giant today boasts more than…
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Is Pluto Really Just A Giant Comet?
Pluto has had a pretty interesting past few decades. Long considered the ninth official planet, astronomers who redefined what "planet" really means decided to reclassify…
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Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $539 Million After An Entirely Too-Long Legal Battle
A jury has determined that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing Apple's intellectual property with the sale of Android devices in 2010 and…
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Amazon Echo Bug Recorded A Couple's Private Conversations And Sent Them To A Friend
We've welcomed smart speakers into our homes with the kind of enthusiasm you don't normally see around always-on listening devices, because from the very beginning,…
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New Report Reveals Even More Freaky Details About The UFO That Shocked The US Navy
UFO sightings are a dime a dozen these days, and they have been for a while, but back in December the New York Times released…
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Uh-Oh, NOAA's Brand New Weather Satellite Is Already Broken
Remember that awesomely powerful new weather satellite that delivered this really cool lightning-tracking video earlier this week? Yeah, so, funny story, it might already be…
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Destroyed This Photographer's Camera, But Not Before It Captured An Awesome Shot
Photographing a rocket launch is a tricky thing. Getting a great shot from a distance is easy, but if you want a truly world-class photo…
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Cord Cutting Is Crushing Pay TV, And It's Glorious
Forgive me if you've heard this before, but cable companies just had another dismal quarter of subscriber losses. The top five publicly traded cable companies…
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Apple Watch Still Dominates The Market, But There's A Surprising Amount Of Competition
It's now been more than three years since the original Apple Watch hit store shelves and Apple still hasn't disclosed any sales figures for its…
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Best Buy's Total Tech Support Program Claims It Will Fix All Your Gadget Woes For $200 Per Year
Best Buy is going after Amazon's hit Prime program with a subscription program of its own. Unlike Prime, this is more expensive, at $199.99 per…
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Scientists Are About To Hunt For The Loch Ness Monster's DNA, But They're Not Exactly Hopeful
Once one of the hottest mythical creatures on the block, the Loch Ness Monster has fallen out of favor in recent years. Sightings of the…
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One Incredibly Brave Man Is Going To Attempt To Swim Across The Pacific Ocean
Doing a dozen laps at the local county pool is enough to leave most of us slightly winded and needing a break, but Ben Lecomte…
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Disney's Acrobatic Stickman Robot Can Do Backflips Better Than Humans
Remember how Google's Boston Dynamics spinoff created some impressive robots that could pull off a bunch of remarkable movements including backflips? Those robots were are also pretty…
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Photographer Captures Incredible Moment A Bald Eagle Accidentally Scooped Up A Baby Fox
Mother Nature can be a pretty scary thing, especially if you're a tiny little fox in the crosshairs of a mighty Bald Eagle. One young…
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Creepy Killer Worms Are Invading France And Probably Also Your Nightmares
Scientists are great at observing invasive species when they're above ground, but as the 1990 horror film Tremors taught us it's much more difficult to…
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Verizon's New Video Shows Us How Fixed 5G Will Actually Work
While we're going to have to wait until next year for 5G-capable phones to come out, Verizon is storming ahead with its plan to use…
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Microsoft's AI Bot Also Makes Phone Calls To Humans, But Only In Chinese
Earlier this month, Google blew the internet's collective hive mind with a video of its Google Duplex AI calling system. The demo Google showed off…
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Here's How Much All Life On Earth Weighs, And How Insignificant Humans Are By Comparison
Ever wonder how much mass the entirety of Earth's lifeforms weigh? No? Well, scientists definitely do, and a new study published in the Proceedings of…
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Watch SpaceX Deliver NASA's Gravity-Sniffing GRACE Satellites Into Orbit Today
SpaceX is continuing its rapid-fire schedule of rocket launches today with a dual-purpose mission to deliver satellites for both NASA and its communications client Iridium.…
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