Daimler demonstrated its vision Thursday along a stretch of the A14 autobahn near Magdeburg in eastern Germany, the culmination of years of innovation. It says the vehicle — called the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025, a nod to the year the carmaker hopes it will be introduced — is capable of responding to traffic while driving completely autonomously down a freeway at speeds of up to 85 kilometers per hour, or 52 miles per hour.

Nearly one in five of the most visited sites on the internet are being blocked by the adult content filters installed on Britain's broadband and mobile networks.

Tesla's Model S is way too expensive for most people to consider at $70,000, but the company confirmed today that it's working on a cheaper compact set to launch in 2016. Tesla makes some of the coolest cars on the market, but for many people the $70,000 Model S is too expensive to justify buying. Thankfully it looks like the company is also working on a cheaper Model E that might not come at such a high price.

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Peter Gould, executive producer of AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul, told the New York Daily News that the spinoff will jump between decades and may even include scenes that take place during the Breaking Bad timeline. This means that there’s a chance Bryan Cranston will reprise his three-time Emmy-winning role as school teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White.

Bitcoin has found two more partners in online commerce. Following in the digital footsteps of Overstock.com and Expedia, electronics retailer Newegg announced on Tuesday that customers can now pay using the popular cryptocurrency.

Higher levels of compounds called non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) boost tropical trees' chances of surviving droughts, a study has suggested.

Bedbugs have been sucking our blood for millennia and after a brief retreat following World War II, they are back and more numerous than ever. Infestations are rising, hotels are worried, and peopl...

Leo Burnett, a prestigious international advertising agency, created a simple 3-image optical illusion advertisement campaign for Jeep in France that merited a gold award for press at Cannes Lions. At first, the 3 images in this ad campaign might look like nothing special – just dark animal images on a canvas background. You have to flip them over, however, to truly appreciate the agency's artwork.

This little superconducting magnet may look serene, but it in fact it's a record breaker, capable of creating three metric tons of force.

Neanderthal dietary reconstructions have, to date, been based on indirect evidence and may underestimate the significance of plants as a food source. While zooarchaeological and stable isotope data have conveyed an image of Neanderthals as largely carnivorous, studies on dental calculus and scattered palaeobotanical evidence suggest some degree of contribution of plants to their diet.

A group of academics and activists is trying to drum up interest in an ambitious plan to provide every Canadian with a guaranteed minimum level of income whether or not they have a job.

Two brothers @ the Patara Elephant Farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand. These young lads are so happy and playful.

Stabilized GPS drone is amazing. Also, I crashed one into a tree and destroyed it.

Home sweet home? This planet is ranked in the top three most most habitable exoplanets.

The startling physiological effects of loneliness, optimism, and meditation. In 2013, Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted a mind-bending debate on

The Great War was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo one hundred years ago today, on 28 June 1914. We take at look at some of the most arresting photos of the..

The guns of August, and September, and 49 more bloody months. Part of what made World War I especially deadly was the proliferation of machine guns, which made defending territory easy and taking it very, hard. Japan was one of the participants in World War I, having joined the war on the side of the Allies in 1914. Japan kept its involvement limited to taking over German colonies in Asia, but the arsenal available is indicative of Japan's growing world-class military strength...

Going to a car dealership is notoriously fraught with anxiety. In addition to some guy in a plaid jacket trying to upsell you on hubcaps, you never know if they're going to have the exact car you're looking for, with the right options, in the right color. How do you know if it's what you want if you can't see it with your own eyes? With this new tool for the Oculus Rift, that might not be a problem anymore.

A new electronic neural bypass device allows a paralyzed man to move his fingers and hand.

Those childhood dreams of doing the commute on a Star Wars Speeder Bike might be possible if a revolutionary hoverbike design takes off.

That massive computer in the latest season of Mad Men is the real thing. The machine that takes up a whole room in the fictional 1960s ad agency at the heart of the critically acclaimed TV series—and leads ad man Michael Ginsberg to chop off his own nipple—is one of the most important systems in…

One of Google’s least heralded features may change your summer.

A small software app called Onionshare offers the most secure file sharing available. So why hasn't anyone heard of it? Well, mostly because it was released with just a tweet from its creator, and you have to go to Github to download it. But don't let its underground status fool you--this is a very important app.

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour.” But everyone feels something. Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too—”Where is everybody?”

Scientists have discovered a new mammal species, a unique type of elephant shrew in the remote regions of Namibia.

Congratulations, CERN: You've just confirmed that the Higgs Boson particle you thought you found in 2012 is, in fact, the Higgs Boson. What are you going to do next?

An Android update, wearable gadgets and so-called smart home devices are just some of the innovations Google is likely to show off at its two-day developer conference.

We know that planets form around their parent star (or stars) when an orbiting cloud of gas and dust cools and coalesces. The same model has been extended to explain how some moons might have formed around parent planets, but a new discovery from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) is throwing a wrench in that idea.

The Internet is really good at making you feel like a dumbass. Just hop on a forum, play a game or ask anyone anything and people will be lining up to tell you what a moron you are, with me usually at the front of that line.