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Microsoft's Continuum technology for Windows 10 makes it possible for a Windows phone to serve as your computer. A new Indiegogo campaign for a product called the NexDock builds on this vision, promising to extend the pr...

Do not set the date on any iPhone or iPad to any time between Jan. 1, 1970 and May 1970. Doing so will brick the phone, and though Apple says there is a coming patch to the bug, it's not yet known when that fix will arri...

It might be one of our best theories on consciousness, but it would take a supercomputer billions of years to verify it. Now there could be a much speedier solution

Apple isn't giving in to FBI orders to create a backdoor to an iPhone that was used in the San Bernardino attacks last December. In an open letter, Tim Cook reaches out to Apple's customers to let them know what's going ...

Sleeping too well lately? Looking for that "something something" to turn those boring restful nights into a horrorscape? Turns out, zooming in too far on Google Maps' user-uploaded 3D Spheres produces some impressively f...

Doodling on a Snapchat is fun; it lets you customize just about any snap with the power of your own artistry, or lack thereof. If you’ve noticed, though, when you choose the color for said doodle, there’s no white or...

ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images America is getting crushed by China. Not in trade or weapons or any of those things that don't matter. We're losing the war of the Roseys . Don't believe me? Take a look at the new robot a...

Geomagnetic storms have lots of effects. Is mass murder one of them?

Image credit – AFP There are instances during brain surgery in which a patient has to remain awake. This is known as intraoperative brain mapping and is usually done when tumors are removed that are too close to areas ...

A new report suggests that the government is receiving far less data than privacy advocates have long suspected.

The last couple years have seen breaches of unprecedented scale -- but the cyber-war of 2016 will take place on smartphones, suggests a new report.

Sometimes, overcoming your hurdles just takes a bit of confidence — and perhaps a pickup truck. A video on Time Warner Cable News' website shows Chris Johnson, a welder from Byron, New York, using his Ford Super Duty t...

Google Translate has added support for 13 new languages, bringing the total number of supported tongues to 103. The new languages rolling out to Translate over the coming days include: Amharic Corsican Frisian Kyrgyz Haw...

Can gene warfare defeat the Zika virus?

A neural network that has solved a notoriously tricky riddle could allow groups of robots to collaborate on real-world problems

Google recently replied to Sen. Al Franken's concerns regarding the collection and usage of students' personal data. The company explains that it uses the information for non-profit purposes, but suggests it might have n...

In the wake of legislation established to promote Net neutrality, it looks likely that data collection will form the basis of the next encounter between the FCC and Internet service providers. The post FCC and ISPs engag...

The rearrangement of particles in materials during deformation, such as when a spoon is bent, doesn't occur independently, but rather resembles highly collective avalanches that span the entire material. This is the conc...

What if there was a technology that could accelerate particles with hundreds of times more power than current methods? The AWAKE experiment, under construction at CERN, is preparing to test this question with proton-driv...

California's attorney general says as many as three in five Californians may have had electronic records stolen last year.

Last year View-Master made the leap to virtual reality, packing a Google Cardboard experience into an affordable, kid-friendly headset. With the introduction of the View-Master Viewer DLX at this week's Toy Fair, the bra...

Facebook first announced its so-called Instant Articles last May, serving up news articles quickly for mobile consumption. However, the list of publishers was super limited, but that's about to change. Starting in April,...