The taptic engine, a key component of the Apple Watch, made by one of two suppliers was found to be defective, prompting Apple to limit the availability of its highly anticipated smartwatch.

An archaeologist has discovered liquid mercury at the end of a tunnel beneath a Mexican pyramid, a finding that could suggest the existence of a king’s tomb or a ritual chamber far below one of the most ancient cities of the Americas. Mexican researc ...

Germany's intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has been helping the NSA spy on European politicians and companies for years, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The NSA has been sending lists of "selectors ...

IF YOU’RE AMONG the holdouts who cling to their incandescent light bulbs like plastic eggs on Easter morning, you may want to loosen that grip. A new 60-watt equivalent LED bulb from Philips could be what finally convinces you to upgrade your lamps w ...

The technology is available to limit the number of children who perish in gun accidents. That was the easy part. Doug, who runs the website smartgunz.com, asks us not to use his last name or to identify the town where he works. “I’m just in Nebraska, ...

The story of how Utah solved chronic homelessness begins in 2003, inside a cavernous Las Vegas banquet hall populated by droves of suits. The problem at hand was seemingly intractable. The number of chronic homeless had surged since the early 1970s. ...

Your private medical information is under threat. That's according to a study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in criminal theft, malicious hacking or other data breaches over four years. The incidents seem to ...

Ouch. If you hate Game Of Thrones spoilers, you might want to keep your head down and your router disconnected for the next…like, month. Don’t worry, though: this post, at least, will be spoiler free. The very night before Game Of Thrones Season 5 wa ...

When announcing that a Windows 10 Preview with the new Project Spartan browser was available, Microsoft made clear that the browser ain't done yet. What we have now is an early iteration of the company's take on a legacy-free forward-lookin ...

Microsoft has released another Windows 10 build for the Windows Insider program and in this release Spartan has finally arrived. The build number for this release is 10049 and Microsoft says that besides Spartan, nothing else is new. To upgrade to th ...

Forensic teams have isolated 78 distinct DNA strands from body parts at the Germanwings crash site in the French Alps, while investigators continued their grim task in the arduous mountain terrain. As well as trying to identify and return bodies to t ...

The co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps wanted to do “do something” history would remember him by, according to reports. Andreas Lubitz, 27, had hidden a sicknote declaring him unfit to work on the day of the disaster b ...

A woman has died at the age of 127 in western Mexico, a government agency that verified her age said on Friday. Leandra Becerra was born in the northern border state of Tamaulipas on Aug. 31, 1887, and died on Thursday morning at her home in Zapopan ...

A body pulled from a New Jersey river late Wednesday afternoon has been identified as the 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who disappeared more than a year ago while out on a walk, authorities say. Prosecutors said the medical examiner's ...

Forget interviews. Being good at special video games could land you that plum job – and help make recruitment a fairer process. HATE writing covering letters? Fall to pieces in interviews? Not to worry. Soon the top candidates for a job will be chos ...

The Venezuelan parliament on Sunday approved a law giving the president, Nicolás Maduro, the power to legislate by decree for nine months in the face of what he described as threats by the US government. The so-called “anti-imperialist” law will be i ...

Going through airport security is a miserable experience, but airports are at least starting to figure out ways to get you through the line quicker.

There are around 250 tall towers currently planned for London's skyline. From afar, they'll probably look great. But unless they're planned carefully, they'll start throwing shadows across ever-growing swathes of London. So one lo ...

In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creature’s mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old ...

Several of Apple's services, including iTunes and its App store, have been down for nearly 7 hours, with reports of outages first coming in at 5 a.m. ET this morning.