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Possibly ideal if you plan on upgrading to Ultra HD Blu-ray in the coming weeks, one major retailer has already started distributing specific titles as well as Samsung's first Ultra HD Blu-ray player. The post Best Buy s...

Ransomware is one of the nastiest forms of malware around: once it's downloaded onto a computer network, it runs around encrypting all your files, before charging a Bitcoin ransom to give up the encryption key: bad if it...

Apollo just chucked samples in a suitcase. China wants in situ studies When humans first made the long trip to the Moon, we were more worried about whether something from out there might contaminate us back here. So in t...

Funny thing is, it kind of looks like a Batman vehicle. Researchers at the University of Southampton have announced successful flight tests for a new kind of biologically inspired aircraft wing. Intended for use in tiny ...

The BGR Deals team has been on a roll lately and we've been getting tons of great feedback from readers who have been finding all sorts of hot deals thanks to our posts. Keep the feedback coming, because it really help...

 A year ago, SoftBank teamed up with IBM to bring its supercomputer Watson to Japan. Now Watson has learned enough Japanese for developers to take advantage of its new skills.

Canon has updated two compact PowerShot cameras. The high-end G7 X Mark II uses a new image processor that offers faster performance, among other new features. The SX720 HS offers a long 40x telephoto zoom. The post Cano...

A gallery of hands-on photos of the Canon Power Zoom Adapter PZ-E1.

Ever had the urge to translate a website written in Corsican, Pashto or Luxembourgish? Good, because Google's now got you covered.

Speaking at a TED conference in Vancouver, XPRIZE CEO and founder Peter Diamandis announced a new $5 million award for innovative advancements in AI. Teams will compete every year at IBM's World of Watson before a finali...

The latest in pestering ransomware attacks, Locky leaves your computer vulnerable to unwelcome file encryption, assuming you've gone out of your way to enable macro support in Microsoft Word. The post ‘Locky’ ransomw...

Overdoses involving benzodiazepines are "a public health problem that has gone under the radar," a researchers says.

At this year's Toy Fair Spin Master showed off its latest drone creation: a USS Enterprise quadcopter. It may not travel at warp speed, but it'll still arrive right on time for Star Trek's 50th anniversary this fall.

It has been a long road, but we're finally here: Blade Runner 2 has been schedule for release. The follow up to the 1982 Ridley Scott film starring Harrison Ford will open in theaters in January 2018. The post A Blade Ru...

Facebook unveiled its Live Video feature in early December, and has more recently expanded it to all iPhones users in the U.S. While there's still no word about when Android users will be let in on the fun, iPhone users ...

The restructuring of Yahoo has led to the shuttering of several of its online digital magazines.          

Every few months we get to read the same misinformed story about "distracted walking"--how pedestrians are too busy looking at their phones to safely walk across the street. But Facebook updates aren't the real problem h...

The iPhone 5c belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, the man behind the San Bernardino terror attack that left 14 dead, is in the hands of the FBI. It could -- potentially -- contain information about the shooting, including t...

The Islamic State isn't having much luck recruiting new members online these days. Twitter suspended 125,000 accounts sympathetic to the jihadist organization between June and October of last year and it appears to be ma...

After weeks of insisting Error 53 brickings were the result of bad repair jobs, Apple is now saying that it was a big goof and that the brickings were never supposed to happen. Come on Apple.

The Coleco Chameleon from Retro Video Game Systems won't land on Kickstarter until the end of the month. However, it did hit Toy Fair earlier this week to give the public a little taste of its retro-gaming goodness and s...

Last week's announcement that Gravitational Waves (GW) have been detected for the first time--as a result of the merger of two black holes--is huge news. But now a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) originating from the same place, a...