Google Plans New Headquarters, and a City Fears Being Overrun
A street sign for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google’s growth has brought the city loads of tax dollars and a 3.3 percent unemployment rate, but also skyrocketing home…
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Meet The First Men To Get Reconstructed Bionic Hands After Amputation
Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs. The three men are the first…
Reddit Bans Nude Photos Posted Without Consent
Reddit officially banned naked photos posted without permission on Wednesday, months after a nude celebrity photo scandal had critics pointing fingers at the site’s privacy policy. Reddit executives issued a…
Urban Institute Hacked: Up To 700,000 Nonprofits Affected After Tax System Breach
A prominent Washington, D.C. think tank has been hacked, compromising email addresses, passwords and other information of hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations that use its system for filing taxes….
Length of Lashes Keeps Eyes From Drying, Study Finds
Long and luxurious eyelashes have been in fashion at least since Cleopatra. But scientists now suggest that their real function is to help protect eyes from drying out. David Hu…
Why Weed Gives You The Munchies, Explained By Neuroscience
Getting high tends to make the prospect of a late-night snack (or a second dinner) suddenly very appealing. But why? – The findings were published in the journal Nature.
As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality
WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were…
Head of U.N. Climate Panel Resigns Amid Harassment Accusations
The head of the United Nations panel on climate science resigned on Tuesday after allegations of sexual harassment were filed against him in India, where he lives and works. Rajendra…
This Is Why Some Of Apple’s New Emoji People Are Yellow
Apple’s finally updating its line of emoji characters with a diverse skin color palette, but some say the yellowish skin tone included in the pack raises some questions: Are they…
Simple Change To Familiar Road Signs Might Save Countless Lives
A pedestrian is fatally struck by a motor vehicle every two hours on average in the U.S. But a new study suggests that it may be possible to cut down…
I’ve Just Seen A (DNA-Generated) Face
Each rendering was created by plugging an individual genetic profile into a predictive tool created by Mark D. Shriver, a professor of anthropology and genetics at Penn State University. Dr….
Despite the Promise of Technology, the Mysteries of Sleep Lie Unsolved
Few of us are satisfied with how we sleep; we all want more sleep and better sleep in the hopes of improving our minds and bodies during our waking hours….
NASA’s New Mars Vine Shows A Chilly-Looking ‘Blue Sunset’ On The Red Planet
If you’re the kind of person who wonders what a sunset on Mars might look like, NASA has you covered. The space agency just released a new Vine (below) showing…
Brilliant Fireball Wows Skywatchers, Rattles Windows In Florida
Skywatchers in northern Florida got a thrill on Saturday when a brilliant fireball streaked across the night sky. And one Jacksonville resident who didn’t get to see the bolide in…
Fox Hit ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Is Saving Trees While Pioneering A New Way To Animate
The animation studio behind the TV show “Bob’s Burgers” is dragging animation into the digital age and saving a whole lot of trees in the meantime. Believe it or not,…
An Early Bedtime Could Prevent Mental Illness, Study Finds
When life gets hectic and stressful, our daily routines can be the first thing to fall by the wayside — early bedtimes become late nights and instead of sitting down…
Rarely Seen Images From Space Including the ‘Best Selfie Ever’
First Photo from Space.rn A camera on a V-2 launched Oct. 24, 1946, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico taking the first photograph from above the 100-kilometer…
Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going. Nonetheless, the…
It’s Official: Apple Is Finally Getting Diverse Emoji
Who says Santa Claus has to be white? Until now, your iPhone’s emoji keyboard did. A new beta release of iOS 8.3, currently available only to software developers, fixes that….
Huge New Holes In Siberia Have Scientists Calling For Urgent Investigation Of Mysterious Craters
Scientists were baffled last July when they discovered three giant holes in the ground in the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. Now, with the help of satellite imagery, researchers have…
Mobile apps transforming the future of parking
Eric Meyer, 24, lives in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton and knows firsthand about the frustrations of parking in a busy city. A former employee at Phillips Seafood, Meyer found…
Stephen Hawking Warns That Aggression Could ‘Destroy Us All’
Forget doomsday asteroids, global plagues and super volcanoes. British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking says we’re facing a much more immediate threat — and it’s our own behavior. “The…
How Personality Affects Gene Expression And Immune System Function
Health depends on a number of factors — genetics, environment, lifestyle factors, and according to new research, personality might also play a large role in determining health outcomes. – The…
How The Brain Performs ‘Mental Time Travel’
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or…
Tech Investors Create a Billion-Dollar-Baby Boom
What a difference a year makes. Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for…
Tech Investors Create a Billion-Dollar-Baby Boom
What a difference a year makes. Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for…
Tech Investors Create a Billion-Dollar-Baby Boom
What a difference a year makes. Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for…
Tech Investors Create a Billion-Dollar-Baby Boom
What a difference a year makes. Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for…
Yahoo Courts Mobile App Makers with New Tools
The company announced a new suite of tools Thursday for mobile app developers, including better analytics and modules that let app makers show ads sold by Yahoo and promote their…
Your iPhone Is Making You Depressed
It’s been estimated that the average mobile phone user checks a device 150 times a day, and nearly a third of smartphone users admit that they’re addicted to their devices….