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Your smartphone is more than a communication and entertainment device in your pocket. It's a powerful computer with tons of your personal and private data stored within, just like your home or work computer. Here are some basic tips that will help keep your smartphone and the data on it protected.

SpaceX has confirmed that it will not only attempt a powered landing of the Falcon 9 booster on Friday after the CRS-5 mission launch, but will do so as a precision landing on a robotic sea barge.

In June 2015, Dubai-based Middle East Development plans to begin work on a new skyscraper that will be the tallest in Africa. Based in Casablanca, Morocco, the mixed-use tower will rise to a height of 540 m (1,771 ft), easily dwarfing all other buildings on the continent.

A new crowdsourcing initiative is calling upon the public to help catalog the ever increasing library of stunning images snapped of our planet, and more importantly its cities, at night from the International Space Station (ISS).

EDAG always creates a concept car demonstrating new thought for the Geneva Motor Show and the 2015 concept offers the ultimate in lightweight engineering. The "Light Cocoon" uses a weatherproof Jack Wolfskin textile stretched over a bionically-inspired trellis frame then back-lights it for effect

When we met with Oculus VR earlier this year, the team mentioned that future versions of the Rift headset could skip the PC, and instead use mobile devices for brains. Now we see what they were cooking up. Read on, as Gizmag reviews Oculus' collaboration with Samsung, the Gear VR Innovator Edition.

Blink and you'll miss it, but what appears at first glance to be a large boulder is actually a tiny cabin that contains all the basics you'd need for a short stay in the mountains. The cabin is the work of Swiss firm Bureau A, and was recently installed in a sculpture park in the Swiss Alps.

Dragan Tutić felt that using wave power to turn seawater into the drinkable variety on the spot had been largely unexplored. Having now developed a prototype, he hopes to deploy his wave-powered desalinator to where water scarcity threatens the survival of coastal communities.

Deloitte's new corporate headquarters in Amsterdam has been certified as the most sustainable office building in the world by BREEAM. The Edge was awarded an "Outstanding" rating with the highest ever BREEAM score of 98.36 percent. It takes the title from One Embankment Place in London.

A US Navy team has been testing a shark-inspired robot. Known as the GhostSwimmer, it was developed by Boston Engineering as part of the Navy's Silent NEMO project, which is aimed at creating nature-inspired unmanned underwater vehicles.

NASA's Kepler space telescope shows that it still has life in it as its extended mission begins to bear fruit. This week, the space agency announced that the spacecraft detected a new exoplanet, demonstrating that its K2 life extension mission is working.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has released some preliminary details concerning a new planned headquarters for a Middle East environmental waste management company. The LEED Platinum-seeking project will run solely from renewable energy sources.