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There's no good way to know if your data was compromised in the Equifax hack.

"That just might be crazy enough to work" is the mantra of nearly 60,000 people hoping to dissuade Hurricane Irma from making landfall in Florida. A Facebook event, which started this week, aims to gather as many partici...

The detection and identification of cancer has seen incredible improvements over the past several decades, offering a new lease on life to those who would have been out of luck in the past. Now, a new instrument invented...

Google Drive for both the PC and Mac will begin to die on December 11, Google said this week. Depending on whether you're a business user or a strict consumer, it will be reborn as one of two new apps: Backup and Sync, f...

The space probe has shown us how complex and dynamic the rings truly are --

Data breaches are so common that we're hardly surprised to hear that a new entity was breached, whether it's a governmental agency or a private company. But the Equifax hack that was just disclosed is more troublesome th...

The new version of lithium-ion batteries use water, instead of organic chemicals, for electrolytes, but there's still one big issue with them.

Dan Gilbert wants Amazon in Detroit. The real estate mogul confirmed to TechCrunch that he has formed internal and external teams to fully explore the possibility of Amazon locating its second HQ in Detroit. Amazon would...

Two of the most popular apps in the country right now owe their current popularity to an unlikely cause: hurricanes.  The extreme situation faced by people affected by Hurricane Harvey and, now, Irma is causing some les...

As Hurricane Irma barrels toward Florida, NASA's Kennedy Space Center is preparing its facilities to withstand the monster storm. Located at Cape Canaveral on Florida's east coast, KSC is NASA's biggest spaceport, suppor...

RED, the makers of super high quality cameras that probably cost more than your car, has been working on an equally ambitious phone with some of the most far out tech any company has ever tried to put on a handset. Yeste...

At this point, we can probably expect the Nintendo Switch to be a hot item this holiday season. The console has been selling better than pretty much anyone expected, leading Nintendo raise its sales goal for the current ...

You're probably wondering what Game of Thrones has to do with chatbots and artificial intelligence. Before I explain this weird connection, I need to warn you that this article may contain some serious spoilers. Continue...

Less than a week into the new job and Uber's new CEO faces yet another federal investigation into the company. Sounds like hell. It is. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into secret software Uber u...

A pair of YouTubers have avoided fines after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged them with steering viewers to a CS:GO gambling site without disclosing that they owned it. Despite misleading viewers (including tee...

Like any technology, blockchain has its strengths and weaknesses. But debunking three common myths can help you cut through the hype.

The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM is an affordable telephoto zoom lens for full-frame DSLR camera. Read our Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM review to find out if this is all the telephoto lens that you actually...

Privacy experts have sounded alarms on face recognition for years. Originally, there were concerns that walking into airports and in public parks meant you were scanned and matched to secret criminal databases. Those fea...

This week, Google announced that it's getting rid of Google Drive. Support for the service will be cut off on December 11th, and then it will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018.

Compact, robust and comparatively affordable: the Fujifilm XF 50mm F2 WR is an appealing mid-telephoto prime for X-series shooters. It's a 76mm equivalent on Fujifilm's APS-C bodies, and is also weather-sealed - making i...

Do your feet smell bad? Just a little or absolutely awful?

Of all the British automakers we thought might come back from the dead, TVR was nowhere near the top of our shortlist. Nonetheless, the classic – and in many ways infamous – automaker has been reborn, with a complete...