Social media app Snapchat is introducing video-recording glasses called Spectacles and is changing its company name to incorporate the new product
Google took aim Wednesday at the red-hot mobile messaging market, with a new artificial intelligence-powered Allo app that seeks to compete with popular rivals such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Apple delivered its new iPhones on Friday in a global launch marked by long queues at its retail stores but also frustration over the sellout of some models.
A small number of U.S.-based startups are harvesting data about the hundreds of millions people who illegally stream movies, TV shows and music in a bid to create a new advertising market.
A Swede who wrote a trilogy about collecting bugs, an Egyptian doctor who put pants on rats to study their sex lives and a British researcher who lived like...
After 12 years chasing a comet across over 6 billion kilometers of space, European scientists will end the historic Rosetta mission by crash landing the...
The Gaia space probe, launched in 2013, has mapped more than a billion stars in the Milky Way, vastly expanding the inventory of known stars in our galaxy,...
Some footwear stores videotape a jogger’s gait on a treadmill to help determine the kind of running shoe that would be the best fit. The University of...
This was already Gigi Hadid’s season. She drew crowds outside the Max Mara shop on opening day of Milan Fashion Week, and indulged fans with selfies.
Italian premier Matteo Renzi was on hand Wednesday to kick off Milan Fashion Week, putting his political clout behind an industry that sets the standard for...
Fashionista Hadia Sinno took the style world by storm with a unique combination of expertise and avant-garde style, rising to become one of the most...
Bonny Prince Charlie saw Scotland’s Isle of Skye on the run. He was fleeing government troops after his Highland rebellion ended disastrously at the...
Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated "animation spots" to encourage tourism – using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and...
As it turns out, being in your 40s means you carry a lot of misconceptions with you that extend to cars.
I suppose it was inevitable that at some point I would cover the sort of car that seems to appeal to the vast majority of commuters.
Sometimes, culinary trends move in sync with political ones. Sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage” when the U.S. was at war with Germany, and a more recent...
In Japan, it’s called “shinrin-yoku,” which translates as forest bathing.
Did robots help make your pizza? If you ordered it from Silicon Valley's Zume Pizza, the answer is yes.
Leave it to the great minds at MIT and Georgia Tech to figure out a way to read the pages of a book without actually opening it.
Twitter said Monday it would be offering users live-streamed video programs on technology, media and business as the social network seeks to broaden its...
Apple may not become an automaker, but it still wants to develop its own self-driving technology.
U.S. scientists have discovered a new species of a parasitic flatworm that infects turtles in Malaysia, and named it after Barack Obama as a way of honoring...
Apple wants to push consumers further into a wireless world. Its tactics: Eliminate the standard headphone jack in its newest iPhones and market new “AirPods”...
Amazon wants to be under the Christmas tree this year. It cut the price of its new Fire tablet almost in half and added its popular voice assistant, Alexa, in...
Two years after unveiling the Apple Watch with apps and styles that tried to appeal to every need and every customer, Apple Inc. has honed its marketing...
Apple has announced its newest iPhones – the 7 and 7 plus – which are water and dust resistant. Analysts say the new iPhones could help Apple recover modestly...
Apple announced its newest iPhones, the 7 and 7 plus, that are water and dust resistant.
A toothy, dolphin-like predator which prowled the oceans in the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, has been uncovered in a Scottish museum where...
British archaeologists Monday published detailed 3-D models of skulls and artifacts found on board English King Henry VIII’s warship as part of a digital...
Berlin’s mega consumer electronics fair IFA opened its doors to the public Friday, offering a dizzying array of high-tech goods from home robots to surround...
Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: Man’s best friend really does understand some of what we’re saying.
Monotony was the hardest part of a yearlong NASA experiment about the mental and psychological rigors of long-term spaceflight, crew members said after the...
The human impact on Earth’s chemistry and climate has cut short the 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the Holocene and ushered in a new one,...
The allure was irresistible: more than 18 quintillion unique undiscovered planets to explore, a starship to do it in, and virtually no loading times.
A "strong signal" detected by a radio telescope in Russia that is scanning the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial life has stirred interest among the...
Electronic dolls designed to reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy do not work, a new study has found, and may even raise the number of babies born to young...
Facebook Friday took direct aim at video-loving adolescents, and Snapchat, with the release of a new iPhone app that allows teens to watch clips about the...
Much like parents who talk to a pregnant woman’s belly, some birds sing to their eggs before they hatch, and the reason may be to prepare them for a warming...