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We're used to weird, vaguely dystopian news surrounding "digital celebrities" like Lil Miquela, but we didn't expect Taylor Swift to...

We've been reporting on China's Chang'e-4 mission since it was announced, but Wednesday marks a major milestone for the project: the...

Two weeks ago, we reported that Virgin Galactic was planning to fly their first crew into space before Christmas. Considering all the...

No one goes into a Daft Punk concert thinking the two guys in helmets are actual robots, but the same can't be said of Boris, the...

As we've said before, most UFO videos are recorded on the digital equivalent of a bent tin can, which often makes it difficult to tell...

According to a recent study from a team of researchers from the University of Illinois, a species of ant known as the Dracula ant has...

In an in-depth report on geo-location data collection, The New York Times claims that apps are misleading their users when asking for...

We've reported on Earth's magnetic field before, including studies claiming that the planet's poles may reverse at any time and...

Everyone is holding out hope that we'll eventually find intelligent life (even if it's a tiny, super-intelligent entity, like Silvano...

Sitting your kid down in front of a screen and letting them watch Fortnite streams for hours may buy you some peace and quiet, but...

We've seen some futuristic-looking patents come out recently, including Google's recent one for wheeled, omnidirectional VR shoes, but...

Back in August, we created a little musical playlist in tribute to NASA's Opportunity Rover, which became unresponsive following a...

In the wake of the discovery of a tiny hole in the International Space station, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopyev...

Back in 2012, Voyager 1 boldly went where no spacecraft has ever gone before--it crossed out of the influence of our Sun and into the...

After watching the darkly humorous short film L1ZY (which deals with an insidious digital home assistant that goes a little too...

Back in 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo won the "Match of the Century" against Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol, conquering one of the last bastions...

If you thought the face of AI oppression was going to take the form of robots going down the street killing people (as Elon Musk...

When someone says "this new (blank) will allow you to eat anything you want without gaining weight!", it's usually one of two...

Looks like the US military is doubling down on its new toys--on the heels of the announcement that Microsoft has won a $480 million...

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...