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The folks over at Computer Bild have created what it calls the iPhone 6 SE. The modded iPhone SE changes the chassis of the smartphone into one that more resembles that of the iPhone 6/iPhone 6s.

In the kind of story we should probably get used to hearing, Ars Technica digs into an incident Tuesday morning where someone redirected multiple radio stations including KIFT and KXAX to broadcast an archived episode of...

Facebook is planning to provide developers with toolkits for customer service chatbots and live chat APIs, according to a few sources that spoke with TechCrunch. The company will debut the new features at Facebook's F8 c...

It's not clear what kind of vulnerability the third-party software exploited, but apparently it won't work on newer iPhones. Video provided by Newsy          

Small and very lightweight helicopters have been around for decades for enthusiasts to enjoy just for fun. A company called e-volo has been working on something it calls a multicopter that looks more like a giant multiro...

The Delhi High Court has ordered Apple to cease all use of the term ‘Split View‘ within India as a local software company claims to own the trademark for the name ‘SplitView’ (without a space). ET Tech reports th...

A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered that only half the atoms in some iron-based superconductors are magnetic, providing a conclusive demonstration of ...

Every time you browse the web on a public Wi-Fi hotspot, you're taking a risk that someone may be able to intercept your traffic and steal sensitive information such as passwords. There's a pretty simple way to keep your...

NASA is kicking off a search for free-spirited exoplanets as part of the Kepler space telescope's extended K2 mission. It's an impressive quest for an instrument that was all but written off several years ago because of ...

You in 2010: Five-inch screens are ridiculous! You in 2016: Screens smaller than five inches are ridiculous!

A new report into arms sales on social media has found that illicit Facebook groups in Syria, Iraq, and Libya are being used by terrorists to sell and purchase weapons. Much of the larger weaponry being resold on the pla...

Sexploitation. It's a word that we like to think is constrained to unsavory websites and isn't approved of in polite society. And yet. Just as with many other technology developments that can be misused, 3-D printing and...

(Reuters) - NXP Semiconductors NV is considering a sale of its standard products business and has received interest from Chinese buyers, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Optical stabilization has slowly but surely continued to improve in recent years, but a new patent from Canon hints at a major change in the tech that may arrive in future lenses: instead of one image stabilized lens gro...

In 2013, Google launched an official integrated development environment (IDE) called Android Studio to make app development for its mobile platform faster and more visual. That must have worked, as the Play Store is now ...

Not many mind what the simple algae can do but it turns out a particular algal community has the potential to treat aggressive cancers. Will the blue-green blob herald the next cancer breakthrough?

Just a few weeks ago, Apple released an iPhone 6s ad that quickly went viral. Starring the Cookie Monster muppet from Sesame Street, the ad focused on the hands-free "Hey Siri" feature in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus...

For the last year and a half I’ve been using the massive iPhone 6 Plus. I love its 5.5-inch screen for watching videos, checking my social media pages, and browsing the web. But after spending the last week with the di...

DARPA's Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) has a brand new and less tongue twisty name: Sea Hunter. The agency made the announcement at the drone ship's christening in Portland, following a s...

The SpaceX Dragon is set for its 'Return to Flight' mission on Friday, April 8, packed with nearly 7000 pounds (3100 kg) of critical cargo and research experiments bound for the six-man crew working aboard the Internatio...

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AT&T has quietly raised its smartphone activation and upgrade fee from $15 to $20, matching a similar fee imposed by Verizon earlier this week.