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A new European standard could ensure competing systems work together.

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.

Now, the company is eyeing two sites for tiny nuclear power stations it calls “small modular reactors,” Popular Mechanics reports, in Wales and northern England — a program the UK government committed to funding in July 2019.

"Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle — carrying our homes with us on our backs — a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs."

Google said its Chrome browser plans to make third-party cookies "obsolete" within two years.

This year Nasa will send the Mars 2020 rover to the Red Planet. There's some serious tech involved

Exergy is the portion of energy that is entirely convertible into all other forms of energy; the remainder is anergy. That is,
energy = exergy + anergy

DARPA hopes to find a way to counter Russia's missiles that can allegedly travel 20 times the speed of sound. It won't be easy.

"This gives you a whole new way of seeing organs inside the body and determining properties of deep tissue, without making contact with the patient."

China says its HL-2M tokamak should be operational in 2020, and the “artificial sun” could potentially make nuclear fusion a viable energy option on Earth.

The European Space Agency has officially approved funding for ClearSpace-1 — the world's first mission dedicated to cleaning up space junk.

If you've been waiting to get the best Mac money can buy, well, today's the day. Apple's new Mac Pro is on sale, and it starts at an eye-popping $5,999

The Pentagon's experimental unmanned space plane, the X-37B, just broke a record after orbiting the planet for 719 days straight. But what's it doing up there?

In the arms race to improve census outreach, few have paid attention to a looming cybersecurity threat that exists because the census is going online.

Canoo redesigns the electric car from the ground up. It redesigns the ownership model too.

Court documents reveal previously unreported instances of the so-called “reverse search warrant”: court orders demanding that tech firms provide all the information on users in a certain geographic area at a certain time. While this tactic is relatively rare today, it holds the power to transform every internet-enabled gadget into a government tracking device.

With all of the challenges that keep arising, is it possible the Boeing 737 Max could be grounded forever?

One year ago, Microsoft began the doomsday countdown for Windows 7, promising to end support for the stubbornly popular operating system. Today, that clock hit zero, leaving millions of Windows 7 holdouts vulnerable to future security risks.

End of support doesn’t mean Windows 7 will suddenly disappear. But Microsoft will no longer ship security or quality updates for the operating system, nor will it provide technical support.

Businesses and educators using Windows 7 can get additional security updates, but it will cost them. Microsoft is charging $25 per machine for these updates, and that cost will double several times over the next few years.

Benefits beyond physics
Building the EIC will maintain U.S. leadership in nuclear physics and accelerator science—fields that are crucial to our technological, economic, and national security—and train the next generation of experts in these fields. In addition, the technological advances already under development to make the EIC a reality—e.g., innovative accelerator, particle tracking, and data-management components—could have widespread impact on new approaches to cancer therapy, solving other “big data” challenges, and improving accelerator facilities for testing batteries, catalysts, and other energy-related materials.

A company known for its disposable furniture seems like it would have a hard time quickly getting to a place where it reduces more greenhouse gas emissions than its entire value chain creates. But the company has a plan: radically rethinking how it designs its products.

MOSCOW (AP) — A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational Friday, Russia's defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin, bolstering the...

We will all be poor, fat, and buried in plastic.

We previously asked Will the kitchen get Ubered out of existence? We noted before that the way we eat is changing, and the design of kitchens is changing too. One consultant noted that cooking is being reduced to "a niche activity that a few people do only some of the time." This has led to an explosion in food delivery services and more recently, cloud kitchens, where food for delivery is prepared in commercial kitchens that are not connected to restaurants.

Don’t pick up your phone: It’s a robot.

Apple iOS 13.3 is finally here with a bunch of new features, including one very cool security capability. Here’s what you need to know.

The U.S. military wants soldiers that have superhuman eyesight, controllable augmented muscles that turn untrained novices into expert killers, and more.