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Even with the update, Facebook Messenger Lite still weighs less than 20 MB. The regular Messenger app can't say the same thing.

MIT and Princeton collaborated to create a pick and place robot with skills to recognize objects by size and weight, pick them up, and then organize them into bins.

Sleep easy. Perhaps we can all sleep easy tonight. Amazon thinks it has a solution to a freaky problem: Reports of Alexa-powered devices like Amazon Echo laughing unprompted. The solution? Changing the prompt that needs ...

I have a cute dog that's something of a beagle mix, and as tends to be the case with canines from the hound family, he's essentially a nose with four legs. If he picks up the faintest scent of food, no matter the time of...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked a multistate outbreak to contact with guinea pigs. Owners of the pet rodents are advised to follow certain rules to keep themselves safe from the disease.

New documents released this week have unearthed a shocking discovery about the relationship between the FBI and Best Buy's Geek Squad repair agents. After filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit last year, the...

Two employees at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology may have learned this the hard way.

California is preparing to join several other states with a new Right to Repair bill, which will require smartphone manufacturers to provide repair information, replacement parts, and diagnostic tools to product owners a...

Nine finalists have been announced for the Shell Ocean Discovery Xprize, a three-year competition to map the deep seafloor using autonomous technology. The finalists' projects include heavy-lift drones and underwater rob...

In its continuing move from websites such as Anon-IB, revenge porn has shifted not only onto Discord, but now Slack as well.

Snapchat developer Snap is preparing to lay off approximately 100 engineers, or almost 10 percent of its engineering team, according to reports.

Bitcoin dipped below $10,000 on Wednesday for the fifth time this year, and all the other cryptocoins saw similar plunges. One of the reasons that drove down the prices is the Securities and Exchange Commission's announc...

Baseball fans looking for a way out of cable TV's clutches might finally have their answer: MLB.tv is coming to YouTube TV. MLB and YouTube are expanding the partnership that began in 2017 to include a bunch of sponsorsh...

An ex-Russian spy and his daughter lie in critical condition in a British hospital _ poisoned, authorities say, with a nerve agent in a targeted murder attempt

Ghostery, Edward Snowden's preferred ad-blocker, details how a privacy tool can actually make money without being gross.

A real fireworks show requires trained professionals to handle the explosive materials, and a location that's safe for fiery debris to rain down onto. But as The Slow Mo Guys discovered, you can get a similarly satisfyin...

We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts - this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These stunning structures are powered by fast jet streams that are visible in the p...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to the social platform last week to announce a call-out for ideas about how to measure the health of online conversations. The initiative follows recent demands for government to regulate the...

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump plans to meet with video game industry representatives as he considers responses to gun violence after the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people. The White House says atten...

The unusually cold and snowy conditions hitting the US now, and experienced last week across Europe, may be a direct consequence of the Arctic's warmer winter

Quickly write down your ideas on your Android device with the Adonit Droid Precision Android Stylus. Compatible with most Androids, the Adonit Droid is a micro precision stylus that works with high-resolution touchscreen...

Big data, proprietary systems, and restrictive EULA agreements threaten farmers, but the right to repair movement shows they are fighting back.