The tech giant has figured out a way to get millions of its smart speakers into homes without consumers lifting a finger, as property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants.

Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.

Modern wireless tech isn’t just for communications. It can also sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even gauge emotions

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 1 – For the first time, a Moscow portal, Istoricheskaya pamyat , has published photocopies of th...

Most readers will be familiar with the work of the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose Strandbeest wind-powered mechanical walking sculptures prowl the beaches of the Netherlands. The Jansen linkage pr…

Health dept reports three more cases in people who visited Hawaii Island.

Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own

When U.S. newspapers cover school shootings, photos of perpetrators outnumber photos of individual victims by a ratio of 16 to 1, on average, a recent analysis shows.

By Christian Jarrett. This is the first systematic study of teenagers’ “self-images”.

Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code - thomasahle/sunfish

One hundred years ago today, on May 29, 1919, measurements of a solar eclipse offered verification for Einstein's theory of general relativity. Even before that, Einstein had developed the theory of special ...

A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.

These incidents came a decade after UFOs appeared near a carrier group conducting large scale drills with an earlier version of this same capability.

Cloud infrastructure providers -- such as Amazon -- continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source.

The DIY and homebrew gaming scene has exploded in recent years, and a large part of the reason is that hardware for makers has become…

The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group Deloitte.

#Developing A large number of Chinese @Twitter accounts are being suspended today. They “happen” to be accounts critical of China, both inside and outside China. @TwitterSupport @TwitterForGood