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Chrissy Chambers tells the BBC's Jane Wakefield how "revenge porn" changed her life.

Volvo started from scratch when it designed the 2019 XC40, its first sub-compact SUV. Here's how it gave the model -- which it calls a tough little robot -- a personality of its own without Xeroxing its bigger models. Th...

Tim Cook made his first appearance in Canada today as the head of Apple with an unannounced visit to Toronto this morning. Just before noon local time, Cook made a surprise visit to the company's retail store at the Eato...

French automaker reveals ultra-lightweight brake components made from titanium dust and laser beams.

Looking for a noteworthy zoom lens to add to your collection of vintage gear? If you do a lot of wildlife or sports photography, you might want to keep an eye out for this rare 360-1200mm f/11 AI-S ED Zoom-Nikkor lens on...

NASA, the NIH and CDC were some of the biggest victims of the last government shutdown in 2013.

Eating raw food is good for the health but not if you're eating raw fish. Experts warned that consuming raw or uncooked fish increases the risks of parasitic infections.

DNA-based robots promise all kinds of microscopic machinery, but there's a major obstacle: they're slow. Existing designs that use biochemical processes for movement can take hours to shuffle molecules around, which make...

Creating a single token requires as much electricity as two years' worth of consumption by an average American home. Some enthusiasts believe that's a problem.

The smartwatch market seems to be slowing these days, with only a few major players (like Apple) still pursuing a slice of that particular pie. A few years back, however, it seemed that everyone was making smartwatches a...

The first firing of SpaceX's big new rocket has been slipping for weeks, and now it's postponed at the hands of lawmakers.

The social network is opening sites in Spain, Italy and Poland to teach media literacy and online protection.

In a series of posts, Facebook's leaders open up on all the ways social media can hurt politics.

India's income tax department has sent notices to tens of thousands of people dealing in cryptocurrency, after learning that $3.5 billion worth of transactions have been conducted over a 17-month period. The move comes a...

Apple has pledged support to the Malala Fund, the organization led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, with the assistance expected to increase the Fund's impact in providing education to girls living in deve...

Microsoft is making a bigger push to keep students and teachers using Windows this week. At the annual Bett education show in London, Microsoft is revealing new Windows 10 and Windows 10 S devices that are priced from ju...

Nokia has announced that it will be disabling the headline of feature of its Body Cardio scale in a software update. The scale was sold with the ability to track Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV), essentially measuring the speed...

To early users, the internet held such promise for people and communities. Now, on the eve of Facebook's 15th birthday, social media is making people depressed. What happened?

If U.K. smart home brand Hive hoped to immediately steal some of the shine from competitors with its new Hive View indoor camera, it has succeeded spectacularly. With is satiny finish and unique "grab and go" modular des...

And years away from safety It's now almost three weeks since The Register revealed the chip design flaws that Google later confirmed and the world still awaits certainty about what the mistakes mean and what it will take...

Yes, really. Sci-fi technology that can float objects in mid-air like magic could become reality.

Prosecutors in South Korea's capital of Seoul said on Friday that they plan to investigate allegations tech giant Apple deliberately slowed down older models of iPhone to push customers towards purchasing pricier newer v...