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The cause of death, according to the company's website, was epithelioid sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/25/samasource-ceo-leila-janah-passes-away-at-37/

A US senator says he’s found a surefire way to keep Tesla owners from falling asleep behind the wheel, among other antics that have led to crashes: Stop claiming the cars can drive themselves. ...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/us-senator-calls-on-tesla-to-rebrand-autopilot-function-amid-crashes/

“Monster” Mike Schultz is gearing up for his latest winter competition. The X Games Paralympic athlete has a new cutting-edge prosthesis that will take his power and vigor to the next level. ...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/x-games-paralympian-mike-schultz-gets-new-cutting-edge-prosthesis/

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an even better chance of supporting extraterrestrial life than previously thought: Researchers have discovered its oceans are more complex than first believed. The m...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/saturns-mysterious-moon-could-support-alien-life-thanks-to-this-new-discovery/

In a new statement issued by Boeing, the company reveals that it is backing out of the experimental spaceplane program that it had been working on with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects A...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/boeing-backs-out-of-experimental-spaceplane-project/

UNITED NATIONS — United Nationa officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because “it’s not supported as a secure mechanism,” a UN spokesman said Thursday after UN experts accused Saud...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/un-says-officials-barred-from-using-whatsapp-over-security-concerns/

Not only is technology making job scams easier to pull off, but it’s also making the scams more lucrative, the FBI has warned. Scams that post fake jobs have been around a long time. Victims ar...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/job-scams-are-getting-easier-thanks-to-technology-fbi-warns/

LONDON — London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real-time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries ...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/london-police-to-start-using-controversial-live-facial-recognition-tech/

An exploding star that blazed to life 240 million light-years away in the Perseus constellation may have consumed its dead neighbor, new research shows.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/scientists-solve-mystery-behind-super-bright-supernova/

BERLIN — Researchers say they’ve mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing and an electronic larynx. In a...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/ancient-voice-scientists-recreate-sound-of-egyptian-mummy/

João Carlos Martins, the Brazilian classical pianist and conductor, had retired last March after 24 surgeries trying to stop pains from a degenerative disease and a series of accidents.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/magic-gloves-let-acclaimed-brazilian-pianist-play-again/

Date from hell? Tinder claims it’s got your back. The popular hookup app says its adding a panic button to help protect users from frightening situations by keeping tabs on their meetings times...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/tinder-adds-panic-button-to-save-users-from-dangerous-dates/

Rogue NYPD officers are using a sketchy facial-recognition software that it’s own facial recognition unit doesn’t want to touch because of concerns about security and potential for abuse.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/rogue-nypd-cops-are-using-sketchy-facial-recognition-app-clearview/

A new analysis suggests that water which once flowed on Mars would have had a pH -- a measurement of the acidity of water -- similar to that in the Earth's oceans.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/water-on-mars-once-contained-perfect-ingredients-for-life-scientists-say/

HERMITAGE, England – A specialist care facility in England is using virtual reality (VR) headsets and data mining to help children with autism to acclimatize to scenarios they are likely to enc...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/how-vr-helps-kids-with-autism-make-sense-of-real-world/

Josh Richards started uploading videos to the popular app TikTok — then called “Musical.ly” — more than three years ago. “My sister was on the app and she made a video with me. It did r...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/how-teens-are-getting-rich-from-tiktok/

SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running, California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn’t spurred much tech innovation aimed at addressing extreme-w...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/why-tech-has-been-slow-to-fight-wildfires-extreme-weather/

A flaw in the update causes it 'to crash immediately once it's opened.'

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/twitters-app-update-for-android-keeps-crashing-why-its-down-how-to-fix-it/

Just days after President Trump slammed Apple for refusing to break into the iPhones used by a gunman who killed three people at a Florida naval base, a report has emerged claiming that the tech ...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/apple-ditched-icloud-encryption-plans-after-fbi-complaints-report/

Humans are headed back to the moon. That much is abundantly clear, as NASA, the European Space Agency, China and others have either announced plans to send humans to Earth’s tiny neighbor or ar...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/european-space-agency-facility-makes-oxygen-out-of-moon-dust/