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Apple wants you to know its sorry.The company just published a letter to apologise for a "misunderstanding", or rather, for the fact that it slows older iPhones. Apple recently admitted it pushes out an update that throt...

The Internet Archive has been gifted $1 million in bitcoins as a donation to help fund the organization. The donation was given by an unnamed philanthropist via the Pineapple Fund, which has given money in the form of bi...

The idea behind 2010's 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) is to make sure that federal accessibility laws created in the '80s and '90s were updated to include new digital and communications te...

If you’re a fan of easter eggs hidden in source code, this is a pretty good one. Apparently, as Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham observed on Twitter, some Trump administration and GOP websites have a ...

Pilot study finds smokers who are willing to use e-cigarettes tend to smoke less and have increased quit attempts, according to new research.

We all have scars, and each one tells a story. Tales of tomfoolery, tales of haphazardness, or in my case, tales of stupidity. Whether the cause of your scar was a push-bike accident, a lack of concentration while cuttin...

I thought we were gonna make it a year without a Trump climate change tweet. But it wouldn't be 2017 if our President didn't fall back on his favorite terrible weather joke at the first sign of winter.

Russian space experts regain control of Angola's 1st satellite; data indicate its systems OK

I have no doubt that the same great minds who are actively driving new platforms for commerce and engagement can formulate a new product (or adapt an existing one) that allows elected officials to engage the American peo...

Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new laptop seemed much more sluggish than an old tower PC you once had? Dan Luu, a computer engineer who has p...

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"What if there's nothing? Then we learned, there is nothing."

Disk drives win against SSDs on $/bit, but lose on I/Os per second (IOPS). Seagate is now floating the idea of multiple actuators in a single disk drive. Will that save disk drives from oblivion?

The repeal of net neutrality rules may allow Internet service providers and mobile carriers to block or throttle services at will, reserving the fastest bandwidth for companies who pay the toll, but the law may not be th...

Gas stations won’t be forced to shut down anytime soon over competition from global EV sales and its charging infrastructure. But the competition is there.        

It's a little less clear whether you and other consumers really benefited.

Backers of NASA’s next great observatory contemplate its worst-case scenarios --

When the augmented reality revolution begins, a lot more people will be prepared--thanks to the dancing hot dog.

Two patent applications published today by the US Patent and Trademark Office give us a peek into what kind of mobile device charging options Apple may be giving us in the future. As VentureBeat reports, the two applicat...

It wasn't meant to last. It was probably never meant to be there in the first place. Fact is, we'll never know of if the super hidden "Golf" emulation in the Nintendo Switch was something Nintendo planned on as an Easter...

Common consensus is that Snapchat serves as a free R&D team for Facebook to get ideas to copy into Instagram. The internet giant has a rather suspicious habit of copying Snapchat's most popular features just months after...