Science and Technology

Extreme Pluto Close-Up Shows Most Detailed View Yet It's been nearly one year since New Horizons sped past Pluto, but the space probe is still sending back incredible images from its flyby of the dwarf planet. The latest image released by NASA may be the best one yet, with...

About $13 million in bitcoins will be auctioned in Sydney in June after Australian police confiscated the digital currency as proceeds of crime, an official said Tuesday. Ernst & Young was running the process, which is only the second such bitcoin auction in the world after the U.S. Interesting...

Reddit mascots are displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014.  Fact of the day: Reddit has sent out 100,000 password resets in the last two weeks amid a boost in account takeovers by "malicious (or at best spammy) third parties." The site clarified...

Fact of the day: Top new Android app of May 2016 include Dark Sky, Spaces and Sleepcast, While games include Brothers: A Tale of two Sons and Bushido Bear   New Android apps this month include Dark Sky and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Apps Dark Sky: Hyperlocal Weather (Free + IAP) People...

Download size The download size depends on the version and varies from PC to PC. In fact, Windows 10 Home is around 2.6GB, but 3GB is a good round number. Updates, patches and apps will add to that. Time taken This tech news taken depends on the version, the speed of the PC and, especially,...

Google is growing its ads -- in size and in number. Amazing facts, Later this year, Google is going to start handing over more space to advertisers, and allow their ads to pop up in loads of new places: Google Maps ads could even start showing up while you're driving. In an effort to boost its...

Tech news: IBM's thousands of employees are fired, but it's also hiring like crazy. As IBM transitions from a software and services business to a cloud company, it is letting go workers whose skills carried IBM in the last decade but are no longer in vogue. IBM said last month that it would lay off...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the...

Science facts - The World Meteorological Organization reports that in April, a new monthly record was set for high temperatures on land and the ocean, indicating that global warming may be happening at a faster pace than previously predicted.   The WMO has issued a number of alarming reports...