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Researchers have built a quantum gate incorporating qudits as opposed to qubits — and it could help usher in the era of quantum computing.

Death. Taxes. Facebook. The first two you can’t avoid. And the third isn’t that much easier to escape. A long history of privacy backtracking and goofs—like a longstanding vulnerability that allowed Cambridge Analytica to harvest user’s data—has fueled plenty of “Quit Facebook!” chatter. But you’ll miss a lot if you do.

Here are the top 100 websites by search traffic in the US and worldwide. In total, they get almost 31 billion visits per month.

Google has insisted that it is committed to earning the trust of users, but this latest privacy intrusion revelation might have made that commitment even harder to realize. Here's what you need t

Two Australian researchers made the bizarre discovery while examining hundreds of X-rays of skulls, finding that about a third had bone growths.

More than one billion users of Google's Gmail and Calendar applications are being warned about a newly discovered security threat. Here's what you need to know.

Uber Air has unveiled the first full-scale mock-up of one of the flying taxis it hopes to have ferrying passengers across the skies by 2023.

Amazon’s drone ambitions took another step forward on Wednesday as the tech giant revealed its latest delivery drone design. At Amazon’s re:MARS Conference, Amazon executive Jeff Wilke showed off a fully-electric drone that can fly up to 15 miles and deliver packages under five pounds in less than 30 minutes.

As Internet privacy has become more mainstream, this argument is rightfully fading away. However, it’s still floating around and so we wanted to take a moment to explain three key reasons why it's flawed.

“On May 24th, First American learned of a design defect in one of its production applications that made possible unauthorized access to customer data,” First American released in a statement to USA Today. “Security, privacy and confidentiality are of the highest priority and we are committed to protecting our customers’ information.”

It's not all plain sailing when it comes to autonomous ships – they could make accidents at sea more severe and even end up being more expensive to run.

Think of a dangerous cargo and toxic waste or explosives might come to mind. But granular cargoes such as crushed ore and mineral sands are responsible for the loss of numerous ships every year. On average, ten “solid bulk cargo” carriers have been lost at sea each year for the last decade.

Solid bulk cargoes – defined as granular materials loaded directly into a ship’s hold – can suddenly turn from a solid state into a liquid state, a process known as liquefaction. And this can be disastrous for any ship carrying them – and their crew.

HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a deal that links two iconic brands in computing history. The all-cash transaction, at $35 a share, is a 17 percent premium over Thursday’s closing price of $29.81 for Cray’s stock.

Robot umpires are making their way into professional baseball, calling strikes and balls at the Atlantic League's all-star game Wednesday night.

Your laptop webcam isn't the only camera you should be worried about. Cover that selfie camera.

Starting July 10th Google will no longer sync your pics and vids from Google Photos to Google Drive. Here is a look at what's happening and how to back up content from your phone or computer.

Try this 11 step process and don’t forget to count with Mississippi. Or maybe you have the older bulbs, or newer bulbs with older firmware. In that case, try these 13 steps.

Private companies will be able to use the habitable artificial satellite for movies, commercials, and more. 

Google’s login chief is surprisingly sunny about competing with Apple’s new single sign-on (SSO) button, as long as it means fewer passwords.

An airline and university are teaming up to develop the Flying-V, a strange new airplane design that puts passenger seats in the plane's wings.

Divergent 3D has unveiled the world's first 3D-printed hypercar, Blade, a 720 bhp hypercar made from aerospace-grade carbon fiber and aluminum alloys.

Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from tracking your location, web browsing, and more.

The ocean floor is home to an estimated 3 million shipwrecks.

They might even be greener than electric ones.