Current space telescopes are… big. You can’t really avoid it given the need for giant lenses and bulky sensors.

While car makers and regulators are mostly worried about the possibility of self-driving car hacks, University of Washington researchers are concerned about a more practical threat: defacing street signs.

When Elon Musk tweeted that he had “verbal govt approval” to build a Hyperloop to carry passengers from New York to Washington in half an hour, everyone with a lick of sense about transportation rolled their eyes. It was obviously delusion, fantasy, and hype — science-fiction nonsense. 

Join NASA in celebrating the Voyager mission’s 40 years of exploring space. Inspired by the messages of goodwill carried on Voyager’s Golden Record, you’re invited to send via social media a short, uplifting #MessageToVoyager and all that lies beyond it.

At the height of a market mania in 1967, the author George Goodman captured the mood perfectly, comparing it to a surreal party that ends only when “black horsemen” burst through the doors and cut down all the revelers who remain.

The workers of the first shift had just finished their morning cigarettes and settled into place when one last car pulled into the factory parking lot, driving past an American flag and a “now hiring” sign.

Whoever keeps calling and asking for Snow Dogs 69 please stop. You’re not funny. Looks like lots of you guys must’ve given up renting movies for Lent.

Apple Inc. is planning to release a version of its smartwatch later this year that can connect directly to cellular networks, a move designed to reduce the device’s reliance on the iPhone, people familiar with the matter said.

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This was adapted from a post which originally appeared on the Eager blog. Eager has now become the new Cloudflare Apps. When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages.

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas.

German automobile firm Daimler and other investors have has invested more than $29 million dollars (25 million euro) in aviation start-up Volocopter.  

When Melinda Roberts found shingles in her front yard after a storm, her insurer didn’t dispatch a claims adjuster to investigate. It sent a drone. The unmanned aircraft hovered above Ms. Roberts’ three-bedroom Birmingham, Ala., home and snapped photos of…

If you’re prone to forgetting your card key for the office or your computer password, here’s a solution: Get a microchip implanted in your hand. That’s what Brian McEvoy has done multiple times. He’s got five implants, mostly for functional reasons but one just for fun.

John McIlroy is Deputy Editor of Auto Express and Carbuyer. (CNN)We’re all used to seeing ‘concept cars’ — those bits of automotive frippery that manufacturers trot out at motor shows every few months.

The great promise of autonomous vehicles, aside from saving you from the tyranny of commuting, is their ability to save lives by replacing stupid humans with intelligent computers.

On his first day at work as a security guard, Steve was greeted warmly, drawing attention from passersby, including some taking selfies with him at the tony retail-residential complex he patrolled. Then he fell into the fountain.

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, added more worth in one day than the market cap of nearly 400 individual companies in the S&P 500. The smartphone maker’s shares surged 6 percent to a new all-time high at Wednesday’s open, a day after it reported better than expected earnings.

At about 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, CNBC’s Kate Kelly broke the news that billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund had taken a massive short position—about $1 billion worth, we know now—in the stock of a nutrition company called Herbalife (hlf).