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In order to settle a probe into a pair of credit card data breaches that affected some of its guests a couple years back, Hilton Worldwide Holdings will pay a $700,000 fee and also work to improve its security to help en...

The people in the images above have two things in common. First, they're all attractive in a "seen on the red carpet" kind of way, with expressive eyes and striking gazes. The second thing they all share is that none of ...

After more than a decade away, Sony's Aibo pet robot is making a return. The original dog-like robot launched in 1999, while Sony says its followup is "capable of forming an emotional bond with members of the household w...

Earlier this week, we learned that over half of Facebook's US audience, 126 million Americans, were exposed to Russia's attempts to influence last November's election on the platform. Now, tech companies are back in fron...

Richard Branson could play a part in our upcoming star wars. The billionaire's satellite-launch company Virgin Orbit has started a new venture, Vox Space, aimed at wooing government clients.

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Apple Music has a new promo video out, and I love it. It’s called Apple Music Anthem, and it channels what can only be described as the trippy. What’s even better is that all of the imagery is being taken from rock a...

It isn't easy to build a virtual reality app, especially when it comes to filling out those immersive worlds. Even a semi-realistic world requires tons of objects, which isn't always practical for a small studio. What to...

This week, representatives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter are appearing before House and Senate subcommittees to answer for their role in Russian manipulation during the 2016 election, and so far, the questioning has...

Amazon is dominating the hardware, delivery, and infrastructure scenes right now, and it looks like it's going to dominate Black Friday too. Today, the commerce giant is kicking off the Black Friday lead-up season with 1...

Experts in interstellar travel have picked future candidates to make the first extrasolar trek. Their names: the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and tardigrades, otherwise known as water bears.

The big difference between Amazon’s AR experience and that of either Google or Apple is in their approach. While Apple and Google take a developers-first sort of run at augmented reality, Amazon is, as always, concerne...

More than a dozen travelers from across the country say TripAdvisor muzzled their first-hand stories of blackouts, rapes and other ways they were injured while vacationing in Mexico.        

Food webs might seem clear to you--grass grows in the sun, cows eat the grass, you eat the cow, you play on the computer. But it doesn't always work that way in the animal kingdom.

Apple was not the first one to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from a phone, but the iPhone maker was the only one to receive unrelenting backlash as a result. Meanwhile, Google explained a few weeks ago why you can't ha...

Starving a childhood brain tumor of the amino acid glutamine could improve the effect of chemotherapy, according to an early study.

The tiny island state ranks first among 77 nations with an average download speed for 4G LTE of 46.6Mbps, a new report says. South Korea isn't far behind.

(Phys.org)--Recent gravitational wave detections have allowed physicists to confirm with greater and greater precision what Einstein predicted over 100 years ago in the theory of general relativity: that gravity does not...

With just a few days to go until Apple's iPhone X is finally released, it's starting to look like we already know what the first big whinefest will be focused on. As you'll all recall, each and every new iPhone launch is...

You're the proud owner of a PlayStation 4 or PS4 Pro, or are still considering whether to make the investment in a Sony console or not. Either way, you'll find our list of tantalising gaming treats enough to have you exc...

Relatively speaking, I'm sort of over the idea of super fast aperture lenses simply because most folks won't be able to tell the difference with the photos--and that's the case with the Rokinon 85mm f1.2 SP lens. But at ...

The new HTC U11 Plus flagship phone looks like it will come in a translucent option as revealed in a hands-on video accidentally posted to Facebook, and spotted by Phandroid. The video has since been taken down, but not ...