A Facebook feature allowed people on the internet to look up Facebook users by their phone number or email address, and “scrape” data off of their public profile. The feature was ...
Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest laptop processors based on the Coffee Lake platform, most notably bringing its high-performance Core i9 line to laptops for the first time in the same thermal prof...
Two new studies support this correlation. Credit: Getty Images As more states legalize medical and recreational marijuana, doctors may be replacing opioid prescriptions with suggestions to visi...
The U.S. Northeast may be more geologically active than thought. For the past 200 million years New England has been a place without intense geologic change. With few exceptions, there have been...
The space station disintegrated in the atmosphere over the South Pacific China’s prototype space station, whose name translates as “Heavenly Palace 1,” met a fiery end in Earth’s atmosph...
The Quantum Shorts competition invited stories incorporating the laws of quantum mechanics The mind-bending possibilities of quantum physics lend themselves to philosophy—to wondering about the t...
Native Americans have the highest smoking rates in the country. Some tribal members are attempting to reverse that trend in a surprising way Tobacco has become a much-maligned plant in modern so...
Researchers call for greater caution, but skeptics say the evidence from rat studies is not convincing Does cell phone radiation cause cancer? New studies show a correlation in lab rats, but the...
Cloud and AI are Microsoft’s future bets ”We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows, to loving Windows. That is our bold goal,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thr...
It’s not just about data protection; it’s about strategies designed to induce addictive behavior, and thus to manipulate The Cambridge Analytica scandal is more than a “breach,...