Richard Branson tells a newspaper that the original James T. Kirk refused an invitation to fly on Virgin Galactic because he’s scared of flying…….

Speaking at the premiere of a documentary about his life, the famed physicist said the human brain might be able to be copied and therefore preserved. But the body? No chance…….

Say what? As wait-time for iPhone 5S grows, buyers’ nerves — and reasoning — fray…….

beltsbear writes “Your formerly working clone Lightning cable could stop working with the latest iOS update. Previously the beta version allowed these cables to charge with a warning message but the final release actually stops many cables from working. Apples Lightning connector system is locked with authentication chips that can verify if a cable is…

rroman writes “RSA has recommended developers not to use Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator (RNG), which has been known to be weak and slow since 2006. The funny thing is, that even though this has been known for so long, it is the default RNG in BSafe cryptographic toolkit, which is product of RSA.”……

The newly re-designed iPhone Defender case from OtterBox is less bulky, but it is still as protective as before?……

An H-bomb that accidentally plunged into a North Carolina field in 1961 came far too close to actually exploding, according to a secret document newly published by the Guardian…….

An anonymous reader writes “The National Security Agency sent a letter to its employees, affiliates and contractors to reassure them that the NSA is not really an abusive and unchecked spying agency engaged in illegal activity.” Whatever you think of the commentary, you can read the original, attached to the linked story…….

More attention has been paid to the new iPhones than iOS7 since the launch of both. The more I use iOS7 the more I realize how important it is…….

schwit1 writes “In a paper published today on the Los Alamos astro-ph preprint service, astronomers propose that as many as eleven past extinction events can be linked to the Sun’s passage through the spiral arms of the Milky Way. (You can download the paper here [pdf].) From the paper: ‘A correlation was found between the…