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The FDA has been approving its fair share of AI-powered medical technology, but its latest might be particularly helpful if you ever have a nasty fall. The agency has greenlit Imagen's OsteoDetect, an AI-based diagnostic...

Tencent recently announced that it would work to bolster China's chip and semiconductor industry, saying that the country was too reliant on imports. The post Tencent wants to bolster China’s chip and semiconductor ind...

Facial recognition isn't limited to humans. Researchers have developed a face detection system, PrimNet, that should help save endangered primates by tracking them in a non-invasive way. The neural network-based approach...

As technology has progressed, humans have become ever more powerful. With this power comes great opportunity and great risk. Nowhere is this clearer than in the potential of artificial intelligence. But a new report from...

Lava from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano has reached the Puna Geothermal Venture plant, covering a well and threatening another. At the same time, fast-moving lava flows are now threatening nearby communities, prompti...

Apple banned the Steam Link app from the App Store only a few days after approving it last week, citing "business conflicts." The company did not elaborate on the matter at the time, but it looks like the decision isn't ...

Want to trade the tattered remains of your privacy for a very minor convenience? Ever wish your computer would stare back at you while you hunt for that one good SNL skit on YouTube? If "yes" is your answer, do I have th...

Last week, we learned a little more about the very human flaws of Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant. One couple in Portland, OR, discovered that their Amazon Echoes were accidentally recording their private conversations ...

Cultured Code today released a major 3.6 update to its popular Things 3 app, introducing a slew of new features for the iPad. The company says the goal with this update is to make Things 3 for the iPad truly desktop-clas...

Electronic Arts is once again skipping E3 in June and will instead host its own EA Play event during the same time. Here are the games we think will show up, including those already confirmed. The post Here’s what to e...

The FBI is recommending power cycling Wi-Fi routers as a step to counter "foreign cyber actors" seeding malware known as "VPNFilter."

Many people tend to look back on the past with "rose-colored glasses," remembering the good times and the good feelings... while forgetting the bad.

An Apple Watch owner in England was recently rescued by a watchOS alert that his heart rate had suddenly spiked, even though he otherwise felt fine.

(European Society of Cardiology) Clinical trial enrolment favours men, according to a study presented today at Heart Failure 2018 and the World Congress on Acute Heart Failure, a European Society of Cardiology congress.1...

As Elon Musk's ongoing campaign to piss off every journalist continued to make headlines, you may have missed a key bit of news: His secretive company Neuralink is funding primate research at the University of California...

With the signing of a new presidential directive calling for commercial space regulatory reform, the Commerce Department has released new details about its plans to create a "one-stop shop" for such issues. SpaceNews.com

It's no secret that Jeff Bezos wants humanity to return to the Moon and otherwise spread its wings beyond Earth. Now, though, he's offering a clearer sense of what that entails -- and it's evident that his ideas stretch ...

After being lost during a fierce naval battle, the location of the San José -- and the billions in treasure it carried -- has been a mystery to treasure hunters, until a high-tech robot submarine discovered the wreckage...

Former NASA Astronaut Greg "Box" Johnson is joining Space Nation, the startup offering space training experiences for people around the world, as its new Chief Space Officer. SpaceNews.com

Data brokers who trade your info behind the scenes will have to watch their step if they're doing business in Vermont. The state has enacted a first-of-its-kind law that both requires brokers to meet certain standards an...

The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that's even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It's called the ePrivacy Regulation.

As always, Apple fans will be expecting another major hardware upgrade or two as new iPhones arrive over the next two years, and recent reports seem to suggest that the Cupertino company will offer up exactly that. Citin...