Overall tablet market declined 10% in 2015, but there is a ray of hope.Tablets had a rough 2015, according to the latest numbers from IDC and Strategy Analytics. In the calendar year that just ended, the tablet market was down by as much as 10.1%, with an estimated 206.8 million tablets shipped last year, says IDC. That's down from 230.1 million shipped in 2014. Things are a bit better (but still not great) if you go by Strategy Analytics' numbers, which say 224.3 million tablets were shipped in 2015 compared to 242.2 million in 2014—a decline of only 8.1%.Read Full Story

A vaporizing science project from Science Buddies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

It'll be a few months before all the nominees are available, but this should be enough to get you through to the awards ceremony on February 28. The post 17 Oscar-Nominated Movies You Can Stream Right Now appeared first on WIRED.

Bradford Shellhammer will stay on as an advisor, but will not be running the company.Bezar, the e-commerce site launched last year by Fab.com cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, has been acquired by AHAlife, a global online luxury marketplace. Starting today, the Bezar brand will point to AHAlife, and several Bezar team members will be joining AHAlife's Brooklyn offices. Shellhammer said in an interview with Fast Company that he plans to stay on as an advisor and help with the transition.Read Full Story

Gas-giant exoplanet orbits 600 billion miles from its host star, 175 times farther than Pluto is from the sun -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Audiophiles won't love the sound coming out of Muzik's $300 headphones, but the cans' sharing and tune-recognition features are worth getting excited about. The post Muzik’s Tweeting Headphones Are the Future of Audio appeared first on WIRED.

One carrier is the clear winner in both 3G and 4G download speedsThe U.S. has four major national mobile network providers—all of which claim their network is the best…at something. But if you are looking for the carrier with the best 3G and 4G download speeds, look no further than T-Mobile, according to a report from OpenSignal.Read Full Story

Experts think that world champion Lee Sedol may still beat the AI software in a March contest -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

GitHub's new tool lets coders rebuild old software from scratch without ever turning off the switch. The post Clever New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges appeared first on WIRED.

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Astronomers at UCLA say there is evidence that Earth is actually two planets fused together.New research published in the journal Science proposes a stunning origin story for modern Earth: The planet we thought we knew could actually be made of two planets, which fused together 4.5 billion years ago after a collision that also formed our moon.Read Full Story

Temblors off northeastern Japan are often preceded by subtle slips along seafloor faults  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The battle over parsimony is actually the story of a war between biologists and a scientific society with a reputation for bullying. The post Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud appeared first on WIRED.

How will the fight over corn ethanol affect the Republican vote in Iowa? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap has raised $793.5 million in a funding round led by Alibaba.Magic Leap, the intensely watched Florida-based technology startup working on a new form of augmented reality, announced Tuesday that it has raised $793.5 million in a funding round led by Alibaba. Other investors include the cadre of financial institutions that have been investing more and more in private tech companies, such as Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and "accounts advised by" T. Rowe Price and Wellington Management Company. Existing prominent investors such as Google and Qualcomm also made what Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz called in an interview this morning "strong and deep reinvestments" in the company.Read Full Story

Another incremental step in the evolution of digital DIY weapons. The post Someone (Mostly) 3-D Printed a Working Semi-Automatic Gun appeared first on WIRED.

Public health officials are not yet ready to say the connection is causal -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

It’s not enough to characterize a coffee's taste as "green"; terms like "peapod," "hay-like," and "fresh" are are all preferred descriptors. The post Taste Coffee Like a Pro With This Gorgeous Flavor Wheel appeared first on WIRED.

That Homeland scenario, in which someone's pacemaker is hacked and disabled, is "realistic," says top researcher.That memorable episode in the second season of Homeland, in which Brody helps kill the vice president by giving a hacker his pacemaker's serial number to disable it, seemed slightly implausible when it aired in 2012. But the chance of such a horrifying scenario taking place in real life is "realistic," says a top health security researcher.Read Full Story