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Apple will forever be remembered as the company that killed the headphone jack. Other companies did it before the iPhone 7 came out, but none of them received as much criticism from the public. Apple tackled the issue he...

Just in time for the holiday season, DigiTimes reported this week that Nintendo is bumping up its orders of Nintendo Switch units to 2 million a month, according to upstream supply chain sources. Nintendo has said public...

Social networking monolith Facebook quietly launched beta versions of dedicated Facebook Workplace Chat apps for Mac and PC that incorporate screen sharing, as well as the usual list of basic chat client features.

Commentary: Inspired by a new ballad about the Tesla CEO, here are some tunes other tech gurus should adopt.

In awarding a $7.25 million contract to Equifax to help verify US taxpayers' identities, the Internal Revenue Service set itself up for a massive backlash. But in a letter obtained by Gizmodo on Thursday, IRS chief John ...

Less than five light years away sit three stars orbiting each other. You probably remember that one of them, Proxima Centauri, has a planet orbiting in its habitable zone--which got us really excited about the possibilit...

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It's the end of an era that realistically ended a decade ago. On Friday, AOL announced that AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) will shut down permanently on December 15, 2017. When I heard the news, my mind flashed back to the ...

We were all excited for iOS 11, but some of us were disappointed when we finally updated our phones. Specifically, those of us who still have the iPhone 6.  For iPhone 6 users like me, iOS 11 has created more issues tha...

Google Clips is either the camera that parents and pet owners have waited all their lives for, or the next step in a world in which we spend a growing chunk of our lives being recorded.  Maybe it's both.  SEE ALSO: Goo...

The Trump administration set NASA on a new course at the first meeting of the National Space Council --

Time to install those updates! Last week, we warned you that a bug in High Sierra made it possible for an attacker to extract passwords from Apple's Keychain in plaintext. The bug was discovered and reported by Synack he...

Former NSA hackers respond to the revelation of yet another breach at the spy agency.

The future is digital: interconnected machines exchange huge amounts of data in real time and the demand for high data rates in the financial sector and in data centers is increasing by the day. Meanwhile, rural areas st...

This kit promises to turn your Pi into a functional desktop computer. I'm going to try it out and see how easy it is to assemble and use.

Security researcher Brian Krebs joins us on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask to explain what happened -- and what happens next. As you almost certainly know by now, the credit bureau Equifax suffered a massiv...

(University of Pennsylvania) Led by Carolina López of the University of Pennsylvania, a multi-disciplinary research team has resolved a paradox of viral infection. They've identified how a viral product can both trigger...

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) New York City saw a 976 percent increase in PrEP prescriptions in two years, but disparities remain, according to an IDWeek study.

(University of Montreal) A new study on cannabis use that involved 1,136 patients (from 18 to 40 years of age) with mental illnesses who had been seen five times during the year after discharge from a psychiatric hospita...

House hunting app Zillow is working on a new iOS app that will allow real estate professionals and homeowners to easily create 3D house tours using an iPhone, media designed to expedite house rentals and purchases.

Just four months after debuting its cheaper prepaid plans, Verizon has expanded upon the offering this week with the introduction of the Prepaid Family Account. The prepaid plans will stay the same, but going forward, cu...

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