The Tiny Mars Moon Phobos Might Be The Byproduct Of A Massive Collision
Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it'll…
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Report: The White House Is Wading Into 5G
The Trump administration has shown more than a passing interest in telecoms and wireless in the past. Between the administration's difficult relationship with Huawei and…
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Certain Female Termites Decide They Don't Need No Stinkin' Males To Reproduce
There are obviously lots and lots of species in the animal kingdom that require both a male and female for reproduction, but not all of…
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Mars May Have Supported Underground Life, But It Was A Long Time Ago
When mankind first noticed Mars in the sky there were surely plenty of people who wondered if life was roaming around on its surface. In…
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Verizon Is Encouraging Employees To Retire Early To Cut Costs
Verizon, the nation's largest wireless network by subscribers, has launched a program to incentivize employees to take early retirement. The move is one of a…
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Qualcomm Accuses Apple Of Stealing Modem Secrets And Passing Them To Intel For New iPhone Chips
Qualcomm is back with another claim in the complex Apple vs. Qualcomm battle, as the latter has accused Apple of stealing "vast swaths" of its…
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The Earth Is Wobbling More Than It Should, And Humans Are Likely The Cause
When looking at the Earth from afar it appears to be a perfect sphere, but that actually isn't the case. Because Earth isn't uniform on…
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Elon Musk Shows Off Concept For SpaceX Mars Base, Says It Could Be Underway By 2028
Never let it be said that Elon Musk isn't one heck of an optimist. The SpaceX boss has been doing a whole lot of forecasting…
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Decades Old Murder Victim Found After A Fig Tree Grew Out Of His Stomach
When a person has been missing for over four decades it's obviously pretty difficult for family members to hold out hope that their remains will…
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Roku's New 4K Premiere Streaming Players Start At $40, Ship Next Month
For as many media streaming devices as there are on the market, few can deliver 4K content at an affordable price. At least, that was…
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Apple Watch's New Fall Detection Is Turned Off By Default If You're Under 65 - Here's How To Enable It
Apple Watch Series 4 sales kicked off on Friday, after a week of preorders, and days after a flurry of reviews praised Apple's new wearable…
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The First Photos From The Surface Of An Asteroid Looks Like Something From A Space Horror Movie
We've seen plenty of photos taken from the surface of places other than Earth. There's the Moon of course, a huge archive of images snapped…
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Pet Store Puppies Have Infected Over 100 People With A Drug-Resistant Bacteria, CDC Says
If you'd like to avoid intense abdominal pain and diarrhea the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there's a new place you should be…
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SiriusXM Will Acquire Pandora For $3.5 Billion To Create World's Largest Audio Entertainment Company
It's the perfect climate for big deals and it looks like another media company is looking to seize the opportunity. SiriusXM on Monday morning announced…
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Don't Fall For This Clever Netflix Phishing Email Scam
People are used to phishing emails from Nigerian princes and Western Union by now, but it's not only financial institutions that get impersonated by scammers.…
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NASA Sent A Balloon To Observe 'Electric' Blue Clouds, And They Sure Are Pretty
We're used to NASA dropping gorgeous photos of far-off objects in space, but its most recent observations are much closer to home. In a new…
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Gorgeous New Hubble Photo Shows Hundreds Of Galaxies Ready To Be Explored
To us puny humans, Earth is a pretty big place. There's lots to see, do, and explore here on the planet where we originated. We…
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Japanese Asteroid Probe Sends Hopping Rovers Down To Space Rock's Surface
At the end of August, Japanese space agency JAXA announced when it would attempt to deploy a pair of very special rovers to the surface…
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Watch A Big Net Snag A Piece Of Space Junk In First-Ever Test Of New Cleanup System
Mankind has made a real mess of planet Earth. Our trash is just about everywhere, from city streets to the most remote areas of the…
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The FDA Says Your Pet's Flea And Tick Treatment Could Cause Neurological Damage
Keeping your dog or cat up to date with preventative treatments so they remain free of fleas and ticks is something that every responsible pet…
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When Will The First 'Avengers 4' Trailer Finally Be Released?
Earlier this week, Disney quietly released the first Captain Marvel trailer, a few days after the marketing campaign started. Captain Marvel hits theaters on March…
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AT&T Has A Fantastic $30-A-Month, Totally Unlimited Data Plan - But You Need An Airstream To Buy It
While all four major carriers all offer "unlimited" data plans these days, every one of them comes with more strings attached than something called "unlimited"…
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Scientists Gave A Bunch Of Octopuses Ecstasy And They Started Acting Just Like Humans
You might not imagine that you have much in common with an octopus. Humans and octopuses certainly don't look similar, and their brains are far…
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Researchers Built AI-Powered Gliders That Learn How To Fly Just Like Birds
It took mankind untold eons to learn how to fly, but now artificial intelligence is doing something similar and in a fraction of the time.…
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Amazon Lays Creative Traps To Catch Drivers That Steal Packages
Losses attributable to things like theft and fraud cost retailers almost $50 billion in 2017, according to the National Retail Federation. Given the scale of…
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The 12 Biggest Announcements From Amazon's Surprise Echo Event On Thursday
Amazon held a surprise event on Thursday morning in Seattle to announce a variety of Echo-branded smart home devices, including a subwoofer and a smart…
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Passengers Bled From Their Ears On A Flight After Pilots Forgot To Pressurize The Cabin
In what sounds like the opening to a rather gruesome horror flick, multiple passengers aboard a Jet Airways flight on Thursday were injured when the…
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