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For a limited time, Dell is offering up a $250 discount on the new XPS 8900 desktop PC. With a brand new Skylake CPU, incredibly fast DDR4 memory, and plenty of room for expansion, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better PC with an asking price this low.

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Curiosity is still doing science on Mars, but it stopped for a quick selfie the other day.

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The Windows 10 free upgrade offer is now six months old, and an estimated 200 million users have switched to the new OS. What happens when the offer ends -- and will Microsoft take steps to address the concerns of users who are holding off on upgrading?

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New findings suggest the astronomers of ancient Babylon developed geometry-based astronomy 1400 years earlier than previously thought. This discovery rewrites the timeline of what we thought ancient peoples knew about how to measure distance in the heavens.

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SpaceX is one step closer to manned spaceflight.

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Samantha Kalman has been making games for years, and now she's decided to take on the challenge of making multiple new VR games on her own. And if you still classify yourself as a VR skeptic, Samantha's infectious passion might just change your mind.

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Need an easy way to manage all of your business finances? Check out Intuit's QuickBooks Online. For a limited time, new customers can save up to 50% on their first year of service.

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Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. Today marks the anniversary of what came after -- the spin, the stories, and the truth about a mission that never should have flown.

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A new report claims software development kits for Nintendo's NX are beginning to ship -- and implies that the next-generation Nintendo console will combine a handheld, independent gamepad with a living room console.

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Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the software enabled or installed.

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The founder of Aereo wants to revolutionize wireless gigabit in America with a low-cost service that breaks the traditional ISP business model. It's a fabulous idea, but it may not work in practice.

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Hoping to take machine learning on the go, Google will be working with Myriad VPUs from Movidius to incorporate a wide range of AI-based applications into mobile devices.

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It's not a smoking gun. But in this week's Nature, there's a study that strongly links schizophrenia with a double-agent gene involved in the immune system.

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Back in November, Rise of the Tomb Raider launched on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 to massive critical acclaim. As a sequel to 2013's Tomb Raider reboot, it was seen as an improvement in nearly every way possible. However, the limitations of Microsoft's consoles tripped up the game in the performance department. Thankfully, the PC port launches today, and it looks incredible.

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Apple's iPhone sales have stopped growing and more than half its users still haven't upgraded to a 6 or 6s. As the mobile market matures and the rate of technological advancement slows, even companies like Apple may feel the impact.

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On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and then exploded exactly 73 seconds later -- taking with it the lives of all seven astronauts on board, including the first citizen and teacher to fly into space, Christa McAuliffe.

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For years, Microsoft has sold Windows PCs that were guaranteed to come with no bloatware or additional software. Now, that may be changing.

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Google cracks the code on humanity's most complex game, paving the way for more advanced AI.

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Police in Texas have signed deals with license plate reader companies that turn cops into debt collectors and give companies private financial data. The information gathered through these deals is now being monetized in a variety of ways in an unprecedented violation of citizen privacy.

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DARPA wants to connect our brains to the Internet. What could possibly go wrong?

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Researchers have found a method of introducing electronic sensors into the bloodstream, with the goal of monitoring swelling and damage from within the brain itself. If successful, these types of probes could guide patient treatment and improve results.

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If you're curious about VR and have a high-end Samsung phone, Gear VR is a great way to experiment. There is plenty of content, and the user experience is very similar to what you'd get with an early Oculus developer model.

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Sony announced this afternoon that its reorganizing its PlayStation businesses into one group and forming a new subsidiary company. Details on why remain scarce.

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Amazon is reportedly in talks with smartphone manufacturers, with the goal of creating a third-party device with much deeper Amazon branding and Prime integration than we've seen to date.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has hit critical development milestones and is nearing final assembly. NASA is confident of its launch timeline, currently set for October 2018.

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This solar-powered rover endures long, dark winters on the Red Planet while continuing to explore and work.

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If you’re in the market for a sweet gaming laptop, this deal is too good to pass by. For a limited time, you can save $200 off the 15.6-inch Alienware 15 R2 gaming laptop from Dell when you use today’s coupon code.Alienware 15 R2 quad-core gaming laptop for $1299.99 (List price: $1499.99 — Coupon code:…

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Could machine learning be the weapon that lets mankind stay one step ahead of bacterial evolution?

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Samsung's Galaxy S7 is set to debut in a matter of weeks and leaks about the platform are already piling up. The one thing no one can answer is whether or not it'll reverse Samsung's high-end sales decline.

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A new report suggests that Chromebooks are eating into Windows sales, and the major PC OEMs may leave the sub-$300 Windows market as a result. This could be great news for the larger Windows market, even if it means a sales decline.

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New climate data indicates that 2015 was the warmest year on record by a long shot, knocking 2014 off its perch. Fifteen of the top 16 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000, and new data suggests that the so-called global warming "hiatus" was a myth.

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ARM and Intel have been on a collision course for years, but the iPad Pro is the most significant volley yet into Intel's traditional markets. Can Apple's new A9X match the performance of Intel's low-power Core M?

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Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that manufacturers the vast majority of the worlds iPhones, have bid roughly $5.3 billion to buy Sharp, the struggling pioneer of LCD technology,

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With the recent use of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Brazil to halt the spread of the Zika virus, we might be beginning to see some major health improvements as a consequence of the genetics revolution.

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Looking for a powerful desktop that won't break the bank? Check out the Inspiron 3847 from Dell. With a quad-core CPU, plenty of RAM, and tons of potential for expansion, this PC is a great bargain -- especially when you use today's coupon code.

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It's probably not the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but we can't technically rule that out yet.

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The memory standard consortium JEDEC has released an official standard for GDDR5X. The new memory is based on existing GDDR5 and doubles memory bandwidth compared to existing hardware. We could see the new memory shipping within a year, though some caveats apply.

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The vast majority of the Earth's coal was laid down at the same time (geologically speaking) and in a uniform manner. A new paper challenges conventional wisdom on this point and argues for a different cause.

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Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket was recovered in November, and now it's been relaunched.

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Apple is reportedly prepping a new, smaller iPhone that combines a smaller 4-inch screen with updated internals. It's intended the anti-phablet crowd to upgrade, while simultaneously blending older and newer hardware in the same device.

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Google's head of ideas wants to banish ISIS from the open web and send it scurrying to Tor to function online. It's a worthy theory -- but is it practical or desirable given the limits of current technology?

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A new theory on why we don't see more life (much less alien civilizations) argues that life might arise easily, but go extinct within a billion years of planetary formation.

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There are a dizzying array of issues, this election. Where does each candidate fall on the ones that are coming to define a generation?

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What you need to know to go in the snow in the big storm. The difference between AWD and 4WD. Why tech keeps your car going straight when you do dumb things.

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Space is about to get some frickin’ laser beams.

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Looking for a super cheap laptop for work or school? Take a look at the 15.6-inch Inspiron 15 3000 from Dell. For a limited time, you can snag this quad-core laptop at a 39% discount when you use today's coupon code.

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An early survey leak could point to some of the Nintendo NX's capabilities, including hardware performance that should at least be on par with the Xbox One and PS4.

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Windows 10 has a significant problem with app searching and discovery, and it's driven one longtime developer to call for boycotting the Windows Store until Microsoft fixes the problem.

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A new Web browser from former Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich is promising to make browsing safer -- in part by substituting different ads and sharing revenue between ad networks, users, publishers, and the browser company itself.

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The owners of lost phones keep showing up demanding their return, but Christina Lee and Michael Saba can only shrug.

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