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Twitter is not liable for providing material support to the Islamic State group, also referred to as the ISIS, by allowing its members to sign up and use accounts on its site, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesda...

BlackBerry's first Android phone was a curious, ambitious machine, so it's funny that the company's second turned out to be so ... practical. The $299 DTEK50 is affordable from the get-go, lacks a physical keyboard and w...

It's time for another Pokemon Sun and Moon trailer, and this one is just as jammed packed with new information as the trailers that preceded it. This has the new Pokemon reveals that we've all come to expect from these t...

Google Ventures founder and CEO Bill Maris has announced his intention to leave the Alphabet subsidiary he helped bring to life seven years ago. Under his leadership, Google Ventures - known simply as GV since last year ...

The keyless entry security system in nearly a hundred million Volkswagen group cars is vulnerable to a simple hack that could grant entry in under a minute, researchers have warned. Security experts at the University of ...

The US Drug Enforcement Agency has announced that marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 drug, saying it has "no medical use or purpose." The decision keeps weed on the same naughty list alongside drugs like LSD and heroin.

There is an oft quoted adage called "Murphy's Law" (not to be confused with Moore's Law) that, simplified, goes like this: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Well, that proverbial thing may have just hit the fan,...

Google has updated Gmail, both on Android and the web, with a number of new security features. For example, you'll now get a warning when you click on a link to a malicious website. The post Gmail has your back, will war...

Billionaire douchebag Peter Thiel has plenty of crazy ideas, but his commitment to radical life extension isn't one of them.

If everything plays out as we all believe it will, Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus during a press conference in San Francisco on September 7th. The phones will then be made available for ...

If Deep Space Industries has its way, there'll be a small robotic lander on a nearby asteroid in just three years. That's the latest phase of the California-based asteroid mining company's plan to bring about an outer sp...

Intel announced its intention to acquire Nervana Systems on Tuesday for around $400 million, adding another artificial intelligence startup to its portfolio. Nervana Systems has been in business for two years, offering a...

Tor has published what it calls a "Social Contract" comprised of promises to users and the principles the team believes in. It has been around for over a decade, so publishing a set of goals and behaviors at this point i...

1U and 2U network storage devices cover businesses from small to large-ish.

The long-awaited Final Fantasy XV is nearing its September 30th release date on PS4 and Xbox One, and just like all big-name titles these days, the game has several packs of DLC scheduled for post-release. With eager fan...

As part of a larger piece examining Twitter and its widescale user harassment problem, BuzzFeed News has reported that tweets were secretly filtered out and censored for President Obama in 2015. Ahead of a "town hall" qu...

For several months now, single-port Quick Charge 2.0 wall chargers have bottomed out at $5. Today though, you can get a dual-port model from Omaker for just $4 with promo code QOM3OFT3.

When you hear "Best HP Laptop," you probably think of the impressively thin Spectre 13 or maybe one of HP's high-end hybrids. But sometimes greatness doesn't come with an outlandish price tag. The HP Stream, maybe the be...

Mobile phones have to be one of the most valuable kinds of prison contraband, where they're used for keeping in touch with loved ones all the way through to running criminal empires from behind bars. According to the UK ...

Developers have created another batch of Pokemon GO maps and scanners to locate Pokemon in the wild on a grand scale. SlashGear does not condone the use of these or other programs which may go against Niantic's Terms of ...

 Microsoft looks to have inadvertently made some of its own orphaned devices useful again, after accidentally leaking a debug policy that could allow owners of Windows powered hardware such as earlier iterations of Wind...

The weird predictions of quantum mechanics are endlessly fascinating, all the more so because they're confirmed by experiment. Here's a look at three techniques physicists use to make the strange properties of quantum ph...