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A federal court in Virginia just handed down a verdict that could affect a lawsuit against the president for blocking users on Twitter. US District Judge James Cacheris has ruled that Phyllis Randall, chairwoman of the L...

Facebook's friends algorithm suggested a user's landlady, even though they have no friends in common and she's not in the user's contacts.        

Apple, succumbing to pressure from the Chinese government, has taken down VPN apps from the App Store in China. The move strengthens the country's internet censorship within the Great Firewall of China.

Some Roomba customers may have had a moment of concern when it was revealed that their Roombas could be spying on them, and that the iRobot company was selling their home mapping data. The post Don’t worry, iRobot prom...

No matter who is to blame, Google's name is on it so they own it. "That Broadcom bug makes me not want to use anything other than an iPhone or Pixel." That's what I heard from an admittedly security conscious friend whil...

Researchers are aiming within the next two years to roll out an early warning system that can spot when toxic algae is appearing on hundreds of lakes across the U.S.

Phone companies plan to boost cell coverage in rural areas that will be prime locations for viewing the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse

We’ve known for a while now that the Galaxy S8 Active, Samsung’s well-known rugged version of its latest flagship, is quickly approaching, and as it does we continue to see leaks. While we’ve already had a few look...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded a probe into potential carbon monoxide poisoning being caused by Ford Explorers. The NHTSA said it is aware of 2,700 complaints and three crashes potentiall...

WhatsApp is clearly a great messaging app — it just reached one billion daily users. But it's not always ideal to be holding huge conversations on your smartphone. You might not know that WhatsApp isn't just bound to y...

Scientists are taking to the skies to chase the shadow of the moon and study the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 from the unique vantage point of two retrofitted WB-57F jets.

Voting is at the foundation of every democracy. Hackers find it's on shaky ground thanks to shoddy technology.

SpaceX's new megarocket, the massive Falcon Heavy, will make its launch debut in November, according to the company's founder and CEO Elon Musk.

We live in a world of chatbots. Chatbots improve human interaction with systems by giving a response based on the user input. This means chatbots are simple automated programs that can process simple user inputs and prov...

Scientists at the UK's University of Manchester have used machine learning technology to answer a question that has long plagued dino-fans: just how fast could a T. Rex actually run? The post Jurassic Park lied. Artifici...

Right up there with buying a 50mm lens and the rule of thirds, probably one of the most thrown around recommendations in photography is photographing your subjects during golden hour. It is one of the most common times o...

For many rookies in Dota 2 and other multiplayer online battle arena games, the biggest obstacle isn't the game itself -- sometimes, it's the community. There are certainly helpful players, but MOBAs are notorious for ja...

We've had a few cracks at LawBreakers, the futuristic cops vs. robbers game from Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions, but now anyone can play on PC and PS4. An open beta test runs until 10 AM E...

Popular tech YouTuber Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips is infamous for dropping pricey PC hardware, but at the channel's LTX2017 event in Canada on Saturday, he dropped an exclusive first look at AMD's hotly anticipate...

Charleston, home of Silicon Harbor, has become a tech mecca for city dwellers from New York, Boston        

It's going to be much harder to view the full web in Russia before the year is out. President Putin has signed a law that, as of November 1st, bans technology which lets you access banned websites, including virtual priv...

No blocking here: A rush of attention and new subscribers after Ryan Lizza's astonishing Scaramucci interview. Donald Trump says the "fake news media" are "the enemy of the people." His advocates at Breitbart say their g...