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Kevan Atteberry tells Motherboard about his role in creating one of computing history's most iconic, notorious, and controversial characters (on a Mac!), and Clippy's strange afterlife.

Symantec's annual Internet Security Report data shows how attacks last year directly targeted end users, and became more efficient and lucrative.

The upcoming release of Nextcloud 12 promises to be of significance to business users. Jack Wallen highlights some of the features for the next iteration of this open source cloud platform.

Facebook must obtain the permission of German users of WhatsApp before processing their personal data, a German court confirmed on Tuesday. Last August, Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp changed its privacy policy to allow th...

Researchers have designed an artificial womb called the Biobag, and used it to grow extremely premature lambs. Are human infants next?

Twitter is growing. Twitter. Is. Growing. The service has been mostly flat or shrinking for months, but not this past quarter. In the first quarter of 2017, Twitter’s Daily Active Users rocketed up 14 percent and the M...

A couple of days ago we got a good look at a "flying car" backed by Google's Larry Page, and now Bloomberg reports that Sergey Brin has a project too -- it's a zeppelin. The airship "which isn't an Alphabet project" is b...

In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that "contained within it is the dream of a dominated world

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus will launch its fourth-generation flagship this year, the OnePlus 5 -- don't be fooled by that "5," the number four just isn't lucky in China. The company is yet to announce a press event...

MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, FL - Elon Musk's SpaceX is primed for another significant space first; the firms first launch of a spy satellite for the US governments super secret spy agency; the National Recon...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been delivering fantastic views of Saturn and its moons for many years now, and this year it will meet its ultimate fate: incineration in Saturn's atmosphere. The satellite just completed it...

Virtual reality as we know it today didn't exist in the 19th century, but what if it did? What if, alongside the monocles, pocket watches, and snuffboxes of proper gentlemen of the time, there existed, somehow, a fancy p...

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Amazon's Echo smart speakers just went in an unusual (but potentially very helpful) new direction. Meet Echo Look, an Alexa-powered camera designed around taking your own fashion photos and videos. If you want to show of...

Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that they had detected planned cyber attacks against 120 public and private targets in the Jewish state but did not specify the intended victims.

It's no secret that Uber assigns star ratings to passengers as well as drivers, but finding your passenger rating has practically required a small mining expedition. After today, though, you'll hardly have to lift a fing...

Digital ad revenue grew to $72.5 billion in 2016, up 22 percent from the year before. That’s according to the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Burea...

How much can you trust what you know about Millennials based on the digital images you are fed. Find out statistics that will shock you based on a simple Google Alert study.

Scheduled to launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful telescope in existence, replacing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, capturing infrared light from the first galaxies of the ancient unive...

Apple will launch 60 educational sessions at all its stores focusing on coding, digital media, and art and design.

Western companies need to get more innovative to keep up with Asia's mobile payments leaders.

Ciphr claims the data dump is the work of a rival company, according to an alleged message sent to victims.