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Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing's 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage , and now an innocent iPhone h...

Instagram has become an incredible tool for social listening, and thanks to new research for Net Quote, we have quite the picture of what the conversation around guns looks like across the United States. The post What st...

Unlock River is an unusual team of testers that pushes premium devices to unreasonable limits. In a recent YouTube video, the team dropped a Samsung Galaxy S7 on concrete from a height of 1,000 feet and the results are s...

A computer programmer has his account canceled for "abuse' after he returned 37 of 343 items.          

Heavy smartphone and mobile device usage is linked to mental process, traits and behavior, research from the Temple University has revealed. The researchers have found that consistent usage of these devices goes hand in ...

This week humankind was delivered a body blow by an artificial intelligence (AI) called AlphaGo that beat Go's world champion, Lee Sedol, so is it now time for humans to let the machines rule the world?

Netflix has begun issuing takedown requests to pirate websites offering up downloaded links to Netflix content like House of Cards and Narcos, which is in stark contrast to the attitude the company had toward piracy even...

You know how they say, "Show me pictures or video, or it didn't happen"? Well, the days when you could trust what you see on video in real time are officially coming to an end thanks to a new kind of face tracking. See a...

Optogenetics, or mixing gene therapy with light treatments, is finally getting a proper field test: doctors have given a blind Texas woman the first optogenetics-based therapy in hopes of restoring some of the vision los...

The heavyweight legal fight between the federal government and Apple Inc. heads to the courtroom after weeks of public sparring over whether the tech giant should be forced to hack into a dead San Bernardino attacker's i...

The focus should be on familiar, everyday devices

Apple's latest event was a snoozer, but Mac fans should pay close attention. The company's continued silence on updates for the MacBook Air and Pro says plenty about its attitude towards old-school computing. The post Ne...

It just wants to assign you an "ethnic affinity" based on what you do and like.

Salim PK, a police officer in Delhi, India, was captured on video while allegedly drunk on a metro train. Video of him staggering and falling over went viral. But doctors have confirmed what he insisted all along: He was...

A new system called Face2Face lets you dub the face of the speaker in any captured video to make it look like the person is saying whatever you want. The technology is in its early stages, but it already produces convinc...

Apple is going extra green. And no, that's not a new iPhone colour variant. It's all to do with recycling, with Apple Renew - the company's trade-in and recycling incentive programme - announced proper at the company's i...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The Google Doodle for Monday is refreshingly pro-black. It features a young black woman surrounded by colorful, affirming symbols of blackness, including a braid that spells out the word "Google." A high school sophomore...

Babies form generalizations about adults' anger and try to appease those they think might be anger-prone, new research indicates. It suggests that babies are capable of coming up with appeasement gestures in situations i...

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Portable projectors aren't new, but the technology is changing. New contenders from ZTE and JmGO have taken the world of big screen projection to another level by combining several new features into small pieces of hardw...

During today's "Let Us Loop You In" media event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, the company unveiled a new software framework called "CareKit" that will allow developers to build apps to "empower people to take on ...