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Disruption comes in many forms. For Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, it may end up taking the form of a jail cell.  The 34-year old Stanford dropout has been charged by federal prosecutors with 11 counts alleging she ...

Sony’s Xperia line of smartphones may not be the hottest sellers on the Android market, but that doesn’t stop the company from releasing new devices. While one could argue over the amount of effort they put in to imp...

Computer simulations have become so accurate that cosmologists can now use them to study dark matter, supermassive black holes, and other mysteries of the real evolving cosmos.

A California judge decided Thursday not to throw out a lawsuit filed against Twitter that accused the company of violating the free speech rights of white supremacist Jared Taylor when Twitter banned him from the platfor...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is getting an upgrade that will let researchers collect approximately 10 times more data than they can now. Currently, the particle accelerator can produce up to one billion proton-proton ...

For the past month or so, inboxes the world over have been awash with emails about updated privacy policies and new permissions required by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You probably hav...

The FBI just got its hands on a whole lot of Michael Cohen's encrypted communications. In a letter submitted Friday, the United States Attorney's Office revealed that it obtained a treasure trove of messages and call log...

Twitter recently "accidentally" banned a whole lot of users for joining the service before they were thirteen years old. The users, now "old enough" to use Twitter "responsibly," have been upset, and Twitter has a whole ...

As Apple and Qualcomm’s ongoing legal battle over patent licensing fees continues, the two companies now find themselves before the US International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., with the chipmaker arguing that...

A Christmas-tree-shaped storm cloud settled over the beach in Alabama, and even meteorologists are impressed.

It's not a way to make a quick buck: It can take days or even weeks for a purchase to be verified before the money is added to an account. But the money can add up over time. Here's a look at some cash back apps.    �...

We've updated our Best Drones buying guide and there's a new winner (hint: it's made by DJI). Find out which model was our favorite and learn more about all of your choices in our updated guide. Read Best Drones buying g...

The huge cloud blocks out the sun, sending Oppy into low power mode.

NASA doesn't expect to make decisions on how it will carry out a Mars sample return effort until late next year despite recent discoveries that have offered additional evidence that the planet was once, and may still be,...

Including bad news for IBM Watson Health Roundup Welcome to this week's AI news bites, picking up the bits besides everything else we've written about....

Quantum computers, once they become common, will solve difficult problems far more quickly than current PCs. That could threaten a chipmaker like Intel, but it's researching how to turn its knowledge of silicon productio...

Rapporteur David Kaye not impressed with Article 13 The campaign against a key aspect of new European copyright legislation has picked up a significant backer: the United Nations' freedom of expression expert....

I've written about Chinese tech startup Chuwi a number of times in the past, mainly because they've been making some pretty solid Windows machines at very, very low prices. The company has already tackled budget notebook...

Could we fight fake news by reconnecting shared images to their origins, using automatic reverse image search to add context to all imagery that summarizes it based on how it has been captioned across the web and offerin...

Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative execution, the data processin...

A new study out of Imperial College London describes the discovery of a new type of photosynthesis, one the institute says “changes our understanding of the basic mechanism” involved. Even better, researchers indicat...

The longtime rivals might engage in legal battle again.