Some 3.9 billion people are now using the Internet, meaning that for the first time more than half of the global population is online, the United Nations said Friday.

The FINNEY phone came out today at a launch event in Barcelona.

USB drives are convenient, but you can't use one with your phone. Well, unless you have an Android phone and know what USB OTG is.

Modern computers are truly amazing, continuing to improve as the years go by. One of the many reasons why this has happened is due to better processing power. Every 18 months or so, the number of transistors that can be placed onto the silicon chips

The Carnival of Space 588 is up at Cosmoquest.

An Indian rocket successfully lofted 31 satellites to Earth orbit late Wednesday night (Nov. 28), just a few days before the scheduled liftoff of a SpaceX booster that's even more jam-packed.

Intel has been awarded patent #10,142,098 , which pertains to a system they've designed which improves the energy efficiency of Bitcoin miners.

It's easy to take web access for granted, but in many regions getting online isn't as simple as just opening up a browser window.

It has been widely reported this week that the U.S. government has blacklisted two BTC addresses linked to cyber crime. These particular addresses were singled out because their owners are believed to be Iranians, whose country is currently facing he

Time might feel like something we've got a pretty good handle on, but scientists are trying to find new ways to measure it ever more accurately.

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Truthstream Media talks about the Science behind the signals we receive...

In an obvious act of desperation, Overstock will sell its retail business to launch a crypro business called tZero.

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Technocrats who are obsessed with becoming aliens in the galaxy are turning to AI (think, HAL 9000) to operate all the technological systems required to keep fragile humans alive. Mars is their first major target. What could possibly go wrong? ? TN

It doesn't look like much, but this shack could hold the key to providing the internet to people who've never had access before, those cut off from the modern era by geography and economics.

University of Massachusetts researchers have successfully made a 2 nanometer individually addressable memristors.

In real life, you don't just see and hear things – you also smell them.

Taken from an historic conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. Elon talks about the future of AI, our survival as a species, and the sombre reality of being in his shoes.

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl took to the skies over Southern California on November 18, 2018 carrying a 70-ft-long (21-m) rocket for the first time. The specially modified 747-400 "flying launchpad" with the LauncherOne small-satellite booster under it

Thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries.

The Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop will have 200 researchers sharing insights and technology advancements about building the world's first silicon quantum computer.

DARPA Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) program, seeks faster computers by developing high-bandwidth optical signaling technologies for digital microelectronics.

After a decade of development Aurora Flight Sciences has finally unveiled Odysseus, its full-scale, solar-powered, autonomous aircraft designed to stay in the air for months at a time.

The puppy cube throws 23-inch image onto any flat surface, and tracks finger positions so you can it use pretty much like a projected tablet screen

A conversation with the BCH boys regarding the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hardfork.

Initial launch of 4,425 satellites to be followed by 7,518 closer to the ground.

Bitcoin Cash is having a hardfork this November the 15th. It is having this with no built in replay protection. I explain how this works.

A quick response to Ryans new video: The Split Transaction Attack Will Poison Ignorant Wallets -&- Hardfork Without Replay Protection Explained | Bitcoin Cash (11-15-18)

Advanced Micro Devices launched its first 7-nm CPU and GPU at the lucrative target of the data center. The working chips deliver comparable performance to Intel's 14-nm Xeon and Nvidia's 12-nm Volta.

-by satellite images after scientists track 200 million years of tectonic plate shifts

SpaceX has US Federal Communications Committee (FCC) approval to build a constellation of 4,425 low Earth orbit communication satellites.

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will make a mini-Big Falcon Spaceship upper stage for the Falcon 9.

SpaceX Starlink will provide the lowest latency and high 100 Gigabit per second connections.

"smart" devices...(Natural News) Turning an everyday object into a smart device is now as easy as slapping a metal tag on it. Capable of being produced by any 3D printer, the electronic tag hooks up the item to the Internet of Things, an article

Everyone, meet Furhat. Furhat is a social robot that communicates with us humans as we do with each other - by speaking, listening, showing emotions and maintaining eye contact.

Advertising has always been about attracting as much attention as possible to a particular brand's cause, and companies are continually chasing the most innovative ways to do that.

This is yet another activity resulting from Obama's BRAIN Initiative for "mapping the human brain." BRAIN stands for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies. Because billions of dollars are being spent on this, technocrat

A neuromorphic supercomputer now has one-million processor cores.

According to a draft paper written by networking researcher and professor Mark Handley, SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation has the potential to significantly disrupt the global networking economy and infrastructure and do so with as

Social networks will soon reside within, and between, minds.

The fast train from Paris to Rotterdam was an hour late leaving the Gare du Nord. When it finally deposited me in the Dutch city, I discovered that the onward train to Delft had been suspended because of maintenance work on the tracks. It took two ci

Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material.

The electronics inside consumer gadgets are often miniaturized versions of bigger components – like phone cameras, for instance – and that applies to the gyroscopes used to help a device orientate itself in 3D space.

Got a clogged drain? Skip the plumber!

SpaceX will probably have about $1.5 billion in revenue in revenue in 2018 and then $2 billion in revenue in 2019.

Virgin Orbit has put its satellite-launching system together for the first time.

Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you.

Samsung's folding phone WILL go on sale next year - along with a Galaxy S10 with no notch and an 'invisible' fingerprint sensor under the screen

Preorders for the HTC Exodus 1 are now open, with an expected ship date in December.