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Tesla is no stranger to offering Easter eggs that get you into the holiday spirit, but its latest is particularly... festive. Dive into the Easter egg section on your EV and you'll discover a reindeer button that invokes...

A 44-year-old man in Russia died from blood loss because of a VR-related accident. Is his death an example of the dangers of VR technology?

Apple and Qualcomm aren't exactly the best of friends, so it's quite surprising to hear that Cupertino is facing fines for failing to produce evidence for a lawsuit against the chipmaker. According to Bloomberg, a San Jo...

It's Christmas Eve, which means everyone's favorite fat guy in a red suit is on the move gearing up to pass out presents to all the kids that have spent the year on their best behavior.

There's a common misconception about cryptocurrencies that goes something like this: Blockchain is a revolutionary new way of sharing information and is clearly a valuable and transformative technology--but cryptocurrenc...

SpaceX's launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Friday night (Dec. 22) was by all accounts a dazzling (and for some, unsettling) sight in the night sky and the photos are simply spectacular.

Starting tomorrow, December 25th, streaming music service Tidal will be kicking off a unique 12-day free trial for all users to check out. In addition to covering the service’s standard and Hi-Fi music tiers, the offer...

Apple is hoping to develop an advanced heart-monitoring feature for upcoming models of its wearable. The hope is to transform the Apple Watch from a somewhat superfluous accessory into an actually useful medical device. ...

Great games for taking a wee break from your holiday festivities! The holidays are a perfect time for relaxing and spending some quality time with family and friends — especially the times when our phones are put away....

A spinach leaf pumping with human heart cells, an ape with impeccable social skills, and more of 2017's best offbeat discoveries.

DARPA awarded a $3.6M grant to the University of Michigan to develop an unhackable computer with morphing hardware. Project Morpheus will protect data by changing its location and destroying previous traces. The post DAR...

When Apple released iOS 11 with a redesigned Control Center in September, they also quietly made a change to how the shortcut buttons for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth worked. On iOS 10 and earlier, tapping them turned these wirel...

Over the holidays, an Antarctic expedition is traveling 500 miles to map ice sheet thickness and sea level rise.

The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed U.S. government surveillance programs by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer.

As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham blows up the biggest tech bombs of 2017.        

Face ID on the iPhone X is helpful for authorizing a purchase for yourself, but don't expect to use it if you're approving a purchase for your kids. Numerous owners have discovered that the face authentication feature do...

A consumer sentiment report of early iPhone X adopters indicates that its TrueDepth camera is a "major driver among positive ratings," and that the features it enables-- including Touch ID and Animoji-- are key market di...

Theranos has come a long way from the days when it was a darling in the biotech industry. The Wall Street Journal's sources have claimed that the blood-testing firm has avoided bankruptcy by securing a $100 million loan ...

Six years ago I relocated from North Carolina to San Francisco. The majority of my good friends still live in NC, which means a few times a year I end up visiting for at least a week at a time, sometimes longer. The firs...

The iPhone X is shaping up to be a major success for Apple, but one of its biggest rivals, Samsung, also stands to profit as the company's display arm creates the OLED panels used in the iPhone X. The post Samsung could ...

Oreo's updates may mean more for Chrome than they do for Android. It's the time of year to look back and reflect on all that's happened in the past 12 months. You'll see that sort of thing here and most everywhere for th...