It may seem somehow inelegant to experience the beauty and grandeur of the Masters Tournament on a tiny phone screen while grocery shopping. Or, it may seem like the greatest advance since the fusion of peanut butter and fruit...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A satellite launched into space Monday will keep closer tabs on Earth’s glaciers, crops, forests and shorelines, continuing a tradition that began four decades ago.
DAYTON, Ohio — A new Ohio State University study shows that playing violent video games can make people more aggressive over time, but the report’s co-author said it is impossible to link such games to violent criminal behavior like the...
Two veteran Future City competitors and their first-time teammate from the Aiken Area Home Educators “Emerald Gardens” team demonstrated knowledge and confidence in capturing first place at the S.C. Regional contest at USC Aiken on Saturday.
BEIRUT — A new video game based on Syria’s civil war challenges players to make the hard choices facing the country’s rebels. Is it better to negotiate peace with the regime of President Bashar Assad, for example, or dispatch jihadist fighters to kill...
NEW YORK — The family of a Reddit co-founder who committed suicide weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles is blaming prosecutors for his death.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Inside a small bungalow on the street separating Kansas City, Kan., from its sister city in Missouri, a small group of entrepreneurs are working on their ideas for the next high-tech startup, tapping Google Inc.’s new superfast Internet...
LAS VEGAS — If you’ve always wanted a fork that spies on your eating habits, you’re in luck: A company has developed a utensil that records when you lift it to the mouth.
LUBBOCK, Texas — Attention, bread shoppers: A Texas company could have the answer to some consumers’ unwelcome discovery that just-purchased loaves contain mold.
LAS VEGAS — Sony Corp. is finally pressing its advantage as a conglomerate that owns both high-tech gadgets and the content that plays on them by being the only electronics maker to offer ultra-HD TVs – and a way to get movies to the new super clear screens.
LAS VEGAS — Many people who have tried Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system without a touch screen have hated it because of the inability to use touch and swipe commands to get things going. Now, a company has made a digital pen to allow people to use...
LAS VEGAS — The race to make TVs larger and larger has created a colossal problem for manufacturers: As screens grow, picture quality worsens – unless the viewer moves farther away from the screen.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They can’t get enough sleep. And over time, the lack of slumber can turn intrepid space travelers into drowsy couch potatoes, a new study shows.
