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They estimated 9 million students could participate and save an average of $3,800 in tuition per year.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these photos worth 2000 thousand words each because you need to look them at-least twice to understand them completely. They all are captured at impressive perfect timing that will make you confuse.

Now, together with Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering and computer science at Stanford, Horvitz has formed a committee that will select a panel to begin a series of periodic studies on how AI will affect automation, national security, psychology, ethics, law, privacy, democracy and other issues.

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a chilling warning to Apple executives as a response to increased privacy protections added to iOS 8: Children might die because we can’t hack into bad guys’ iMessages.

There’s a catch, though: To purchase the cassette of the “Awesome Mix,” you’ll have to seek out an independent retailer partnered with Record Store Day. (Yes, there are still record stores out there. I was as shocked as anyone.) If you can manage that herculean feat, then you’ll just have until December 31 (the same day Funko’s Dancing Groot is released, incidentally) to get your own tape, or until supplies run out.

Internet security firm FireEye has discovered a new security flaw that allows attacks on iOS devices, which the company says “can pose much bigger threats than WireLurker”—the malicious bug found just last week exploiting the same vulnerability.

HALLOWEEN WAS ABOUT SEX BEFORE IT WAS ABOUT "TRICK OR TREAT," AND THE WONDER IS THAT WE EVER SAW IT ANY OTHER WAY.

When you're sent to prison, you're stripped of basic comforts the rest of us take for granted—things like having many food options or a way to light contraband cigarettes. Necessity is the mother of invention, so those who have been in prison have had to come up with some creative life hacks for when resources are limited. Here are a few of them.

Apple’s Tim Cook has turned this into a selling point, with his pledge that “We’re not like all the others” when it comes to security. The message is clear; buy an iPhone if you want privacy. Here’s how iOS 8 fulfills – or fails – that promise.

In an experimental attempt to unmask the dangers of public Wi-Fi, six Londoners unknowingly agreed that to get on a city's public Wi-Fi network, they would give up their oldest child.

Kyle and Stan takes advantage of social engineering in order to pump your computer full of unwanted and unpleasant malware. Curious as to how you can fight back? Read on.

No one is keeping track of how many American citizens are shot by their police. This is crazy. This is governmental malpractice on a national scale. We'd like your help in changing this.

A 20-year-old North Dakota woman is being charged with negligent homicide after the car she allegedly was driving at 85 mph slammed into another vehicle, killing an 89-year-old Minnesota woman.

iCloud hasn't exactly had the best week. You've probably heard that you should enable two-factor authentication on your Apple account (among others) to protect yourself from hackers, but be forewarned: two-factor authentication doesn't protect your iCloud backups or photos.

More than 1,000 US businesses have been infected with a malicious program that targets point-of-sale systems and steals credit- and debit-card data, the US government warned over the weekend.

"Uber today announced UberPool, an experimental ridesharing service that could cut costs by as much as 40 percent compared to its UberX offering."

Starting today, San Diego will be teeming with Avengers, X-Men, Jedis, wookies, and other creatures for the 45th Comic-Con International, July 24-27. If you’re planning to attend, buckle up and plan ahead – last year more than 130,000 “beings” took over the town for the weekend. Here are some useful tips and must-haves around both the Comic and the Con to help you navigate and get the most out of your experience.

The video above by Colin Nederkoorn, co-founder and CEO of Customer.io, demonstrates the dramatic difference in speed using Netflix before and after connecting to a VPN. The Netflix video test without the VPN stutters along at 235 kpbs, even though Nederkoorn is paying Verizon for 75 mbps down and 35 mbps up on FiOS. With the VPN connection, he gets the maximum bitrate this video would show, 3000 kbps. (How-To Geek has an excellent explanation of the bitrate here.)