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As part of celebrating Black History Month, we are sharing the perspectives of Tobi Amos, a young African-American engineer about some of the black role models who helped inspire her.

Reports say Mercedes-Benz diesels stopped cleansing the exhaust after 21 miles. The cars also recognized emissions tests and went to full-clean mode.

A modder has managed to hook a JVC Videosphere up to the latest consoles from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

Sony is offering an excellent deal on the PlayStation VR headset, with standalone units as low as $200 and bundles going for $300 to $350.

Intel has released a new driver update, 15.65, that can automatically detect and configure certain games for best performance on Intel integrated graphics.

A review of Kepler data reveals 95 newly discovered exoplanets, one of which could be of great interest to astronomers.

Old diesel engines in new truck bodies (gliders) can meet old emissions rules. They emit up to 55 times as much pollution as regular truck tractors, and 10 times the pollution potential of the 455,000 recalled Dieselgate VWs.

Wireless spectrum in the US is carefully regulated to avoid interference, which is why mobile carriers pay out the nose to license slices of the airwaves. Naturally, T-Mobile was quite perturbed recently when it detected heavy interference with its network in Brooklyn.

It's not unusual for new CPUs to require UEFI/BIOS updates in order to function properly, but AMD's solution to this issue is some next-level-excellent customer service.

Neptune's tumultuous atmosphere gives rise to vortices similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, but storms on Neptune usually just last a few years. For the first time, astronomers are watching one of them evaporate before their telescopic eyes.

A bug in Coinbase is causing small, speculative purchases of cryptocurrency to completely drain users' bank accounts.

Microsoft has a $200 discount on Surface Pro hardware this weekend, in celebration of the device's five-year launch date.