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Nintendo discontinues popular NES Classic system. In a statement to IGN, Nintendo confirmed that it will no longer produce new mini-NES systems in North America—at least in 2017: Throughout April, NOA territories will receive the last shipments of Nintendo Entertainment System:...

Facebook logs SMS texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts. Last week, some Facebook users discovered that the social network logged all calls and text messages made on their Android devices. The revelation came in the aftermath of...

Remastered versions of the first three Devil May Cry games are headed to new platforms early next year, Capcom has announced. The Devil May Cry HD Collection is officially coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in March. Capcom...

Electrons whizzing around each other and humans crammed together at a political rally don't seem to have much in common, but researchers at Cornell are connecting the dots. They've developed a highly accurate mathematical approach to predict the behavior...

Australian scientists have achieved a new milestone in their approach to creating a quantum computer chip in silicon, demonstrating the ability to tune the control frequency of a qubit by engineering its atomic configuration. The work has been...

For geoscientists, looking at how minerals react in different conditions can provide a great deal of information about the characteristics of the materials that make up our world. In some cases, merely exposing minerals to water-based environments can...

With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting smaller and smaller. And that's bad news for stealthy insects like kissing bugs. In a new pilot study, researchers in Texas successfully attached miniature radio transmitters to kissing...

Researchers at the universities in Linköping and Shenzhen have shown how an inorganic perovskite can be made into a cheap and efficient photodetector that transfers both text and music. "It's a promising material for future rapid optical communication,"...

LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab and the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University collaborated to create this interactive system. People can assemble LEGO bricks into any configuration their hearts desire, and then watch a group of mini drones mimic...

Dish Network Corp reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday as it lost more pay-TV subscribers due to stiff competition from online video services. According to Dish's latest earnings report, the company lost 116,000 pay-TV subscribers last quarter -- including...