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While Adobe is finally mercy killing Flash, its multimedia software that helped power countless web applications like games and videos faced but widespread criticism for its rapid decline in usefulness and growing number...

Earlier today, Apple announced that it’s finally discontinuing the iPod nano and shuffle once and for all, making the touch the last iPod standing. Instead of simply mourning the loss of the devices, let’s celebrate ...

Tim Cook has not-so-subtly hinted that Apple is working on some sort of augmented reality product. And while ARKit may be the start, a patent application published today hints at what Apple could be picturing down the ro...

With echoes of the gluten-free craze, lectins are being wrongly vilified with a glut of questionable health claims, says Anthony Warner

The Internet of Things will be the next stage in the computer revolution, this time focused on the "type of data we collect," according to a whitepaper from ARM. The British semiconductor firm, recently acquired by SoftB...

A well earned glass can loosen your thinking until you feel able to pierce the mysteries of life, death, love and identity. In moments like these, alcohol and the cosmic can seem intimately entwined.

Following a year-and-a-half of testing in a few select regions, the free antivirus software from Kaspersky Lab is now available worldwide. Although it lacks many features of Kaspersky's paid product, it includes all of t...

A security researcher exposes software flaws that could prevent detection of radioactive leaks or aid in smuggling radioactive material.

For a long time, the prevailing theory of sources of matter was that it was mostly local; the atoms that make up our planet and our bodies were from pretty close by. But now, researchers at Northwestern University have c...

In the mid-1960s, the CIA did try to see if that would work, in a short-lived experiment nicknamed 'Acoustic Kitty'.        

The iPod Nano and the Shuffle have been killed by Apple. They now join a long list of obsolete portable music devices.        

Remember iPods? Back in the days when compressing CDs down into a little aluminum box was considered impressive, they were all the rage. But then came smartphones, and the MP3 player's 10-year reign as the gadget of teen...

'Class Apples' is an album recorded using the 40-year-old Apple II's 1-bit sound system.

This year is the year of fingerprints for security – if it weren’t already abundantly clear, here’s another bit of proof. This is the VeriMark Fingerprint Key by Kensington. This device is just about as simple as a...

You never know which finger you'll have free to use for your smartphone scanner. Jack Wallen shows you how to add additional fingerprints to the OnePlus line of smartphones.

For the first time, scientists in the US have successfully edited the DNA of viable human embryos using the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR, according to a report by MIT Technology Review. Gaining the ability to edit h...

Oh pizza, how I love thee. Let me count the ways. Your golden, flaky crust. Your salty-sweet tomato sauce. Your gooey, stretchy cheese. Your predictive algorithms and efficiently automated production line... Wait, what? ...

Samsung leads the pack when it comes to high-end Android phones, but its understanding of the mid-range and budget market is seriously lacking. On Monday, the company unveiled its new Galaxy J7 and J3 unlocked handsets, ...

And why the hell should they? In the past three months, President Trump's favorite social network has grown by zero (0) users, according to Twitter's latest earnings report. That's 66 million fewer new users than Faceboo...

A newly leaked component shows what is clearly an inductive coil for the "iPhone 8" with an apparent female Lightning socket, but unanswerable questions surround the provenance of the part.

When Google initially announced YouTube Red -- a paid service that would allow YouTube users to watch ad-free videos, access a library of original shows and use the YouTube Music app with background play -- it sounded li...

A team of scientists from Oregon have performed the first known instance of gene editing on human embryos in the US, according to MIT's Tech Review. Shoukhrat Mitalipov from Oregon Health and Science University and his t...