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Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack's user researcher, but her views here ...

City driving is best done with small cars -- they're easier to park, easier to zip around in, and easier on gas consumption -- but small cars have a big downside. Models like the Smart ForTwo are only big enough for two ...

NASA is setting aside money to fund the most ambitious and odd-but-interesting projects that made it through NIAC's first phase. NIAC or NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is the agency's annual program that welcom...

Apple has acknowledged reports from Apple Music subscribers who claim some of their locally stored music files have been deleted. The company says that so far it hasn't been able to replicate the issue, but suggests an u...

 Robots and artificial intelligence have come a long way since a Roomba entered your home to vacuum your floor and Siri gave you advice on the best Italian restaurants in your parents’ neighborhood. Cars drive themsel...

Eliminate air pollution around you within seconds by using Breathe. This is one of the world's smallest and most advanced wearable air purifiers you can easily carry on the go. It comes in two colors of cadet grey and ma...

Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper has sold his entire stake in Apple, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (via Business Insider UK). Tepper's 1.26 million shares in the company were last v...

A new video shows the highest- spatial- resolution view of Mercury migrating across the surface of the sun. The images were captured by the New Solar Telescope in California, on May 9.

Starting today, Project Spark, Microsoft's quirky game creation game, is no longer for sale. And come August 12th, the servers will be shut down, Thomas Gratz of developer Team Dakota writes. As a consolation, anyone who...

BMW chairman Harald Krüge revealed that the iNEXT self-driving electric car of the company is slated to launch in 2021. Will that be too late, given that the company's rivals are planning to launch their own offerings y...

Canon announced the EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM lens with built-in ring flash for the EOS M camera. The lens will be available from June this year at a price tag of $299.99.

You're finally grasping the concept of the USB-C port and now it's time to keep your new laptop safe and sound with the Carry-On Folio Sleeve for 12" MacBook by Mujjo. Available in all black, this sleeve is built to last...

With its proximity to creative agencies and celebrities, Los Angeles has emerged as a key market for Facebook's advertising business and pop culture cachet. But space was tight in its Playa Vista offices. When R&B star M...

The data of 70,000 OKCupid users is now searchable in a database. Ethicist Michael T Zimmer explains why it doesn't matter that it was "already public." The post OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science appea...

Here comes Google's big VR splash. At Google's big I/O developer show next week, expect plenty of virtual reality buzz. If you're there, you might get to take a treat home. Sources confirmed that the company will be unma...

People who have sleep problems and those who work overnight shifts are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes. A gene variant's link with melatonin could be to blame.

Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop. At least that is the case in the sale of Yahoo, which is now in its second phase of bid...

A remote Alaska Volcano that erupted in March is again showing signs of life.

Recent data gathered by Yahoo-owned firm Flurry Analytics illustrates a growing interest in health and fitness apps, a category that has skyrocketed in popularity over the past months to become some of the most used digi...

A group of Danish researchers scraped data from 70,000 OkCupid profiles, packaged it in a data set, and released it on the internet. While the profiles are technically public, collecting personal information on such a ma...

Xbox has rolled out backward compatibility support for games that span multiple discs, starting with Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut. This means players can look forward to even more classic Xbox 360 games hitti...

Researchers at Stanford University have created a drone that can perch on walls and ceilings like a bug, making progress on the problem of limited flight endurance that has plagued the devices.