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In the wake of Tuesday's incident, familiar accusations, claims and conspiracies emerged on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and beyond

Major tech executives from the likes of Twitter and Uber have called for gun control following a shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters.   Three people were shot, one killed, after a shooter opened fire at You...

"The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough," a man once said while talking incoherently about cybersecurity and online threats. But that's still a fact. Cybersecurity is difficult, especially if you don't care abo...

Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and other notable tech figures took to Twitter to respond to the shooting at YouTube HQ.        

Facebook said removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook pages, and 65 Instagram accounts, all controlled bythe Internet Research Agency.        

A shooter wounded three people at the video site's headquarters before apparently taking her own life. Her motive remains unknown.

He started working at Google in 2010 and announced his departure yesterday.

Samsung introduced the upcoming Notebook Odyssey Z packing the latest Intel Core i7 CPU for laptops and Nvidia's GTX 1060 graphics. It's available in Korea and China now, followed by North America later this year. The po...

As a City Kid, I've never had much need to "identify the plants and animals around me" but now that I live in a semi-rural area, I'm kind of curious about the flora and fauna I see. This app may be able to help.∞ Read ...

How do we find a tiny shred of self-understanding in this vast universe? More simply: how did we get here? A proper map could help us answer this question.

At 29 years old, Canadian firefighter Rob Anderson lost his left arm and left leg to a harrowing helicopter crash into the side of a mountain. Although fitted with "top of the line" prosthetics for the last 10 years, he ...

The preparations for the first demonstration mission of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew spacecraft took a symbolic step forward with the reveal of its first patch. The NASA team contracted to run Starliner mission contro...

In Japan this week was a tip about Japanese exchange Monex moving to take over the exchange known as Coincheck. Said takeover would be a muilti-billion-Yen bid, and a big bump to public confidence in bitcoin and cryptocu...

In late 2016, Google announced that it expected to offset all of its office and data center electricity use with 100 percent renewable energy in 2017. Today, the company says it achieved that goal. Google has been workin...

Blue Origin quietly changed the design of its New Glenn rocket around the beginning of the year in order to hold to a 2020 first launch and increase the range of orbital missions the rocket can complete.

(RMIT University) Researchers from RMIT University have developed a new artificial enzyme that uses light to kill bacteria. The artificial enzymes could one day be used in the fight against infections, and to keep high-r...

Once upon a time, premium phones were often accompanied by smaller, less powerful, and less expensive “mini” or “lite” models. Those included the Xperia Compacts, Huawei P Lites, and Galaxy minis. Samsung used to...

The US Trade Representative has published the list of Chinese products that would be subject to its proposed tech tariffs, and there are a few clear themes. The move would hike the costs of about 1,300 products, includin...

Apple has managed to snag Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a fairly significant victory for a company that has lagged behind its rivals in ...

San Francisco and other cities around the US have been rolling out pedal-assisted e-bike sharing programs to help decrease street traffic and air pollution. Now New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio has directed his city'...

Facebook has spent the past few weeks on an apology tour amid the fallout of its Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal, in which the company lost control of extensive information on 50 million users harvested without ...

Since President Donald Trump's administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed. On Monday, that process began with an announcemen...