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Never trust anyone when it comes to managing your privacy. The Wall Street Journal reports that application developers, both mobile and desktop, are busy rummaging through the email of thousands and thousands of users wi...

The federal investigation into Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal--in which prior versions of Facebook's advertising API allowed the shady election data firm to partner with an app to harvest data on at ...

Hurrah! Now we can have a security panic about a violent game instead of a moral panic! Free first-person slaughter-fest Fortnite has attracted over 100 million players but many of them are falling foul to malware attack...

The Jovian spacecraft and a clever citizen scientist produce another jaw-dropping image of the gas giant.

Comcast has grown its wireless reseller Xfinity Mobile at speed by leveraging its existing cable and internet customer base, but a class-action lawsuit spotted by DSL Reports alleges that the company may have been so kee...

Right now nature is also throwing a bit of a tantrum on the western Galapagos isles.

When you get caught in a storm here on Earth you just find shelter for a little while and let it pass, but things are a whole lot different on Mars. It's now been three weeks since the massive dust storm on Mars has swal...

No long-term contracts or costly installation required. After shipping later than expected, is the Ring Alarm still worth your time? There are a bunch of alarm systems available that you can buy and install yourself thes...

Erwan Hesry/Unsplash Do you ever shoot with older lenses that aren't capable of transmitting metadata to the camera when you shoot? If so, you might want to try out NameThatLens, a cross-platform program that simplifies ...

E-cigarette start-up Juul raised $1.2 billion last week against a $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. Why is it so valuable? Selling nicotine has been a good business model for a long time, and Juul is making a pro...

How much all-seeing AI surveillance is too much?

In 1997, when Jeannne Loise Calment died at the age of 122, she was the longest-living human on record. But she won't always be. According to a new study published last week in Science, humans are nowhere near our maximu...

Keep your KEY2 in pristine condition with a case. The BlackBerry KEY2 is a surprisingly refined follow up to the KEYone, which brought back the physical keyboard in a big way. Because the KEY2 is an unconventional design...

A British Member of Parliament has demonstrated the issues of having the 'Hey Siri' function active during meetings, by suddenly being heckled by his iPhone while addressing his peers in the UK House of Commons on Tuesda...

Khali the Killer appears to get a premature -- and free -- online release.

Malware writers and scammers love to exploit demand for popular games to ensnare unwitting victims, and that's truer than ever for a near-ubiquitous game like Fortnite. Rainway has discovered malicious Windows adware hid...

Email is one of the oldest and most sacred Internet services still in use. Despite attempts to kill it, it remains the backbone of communication over the Internet and, as such, is a treasure trove of personal data. Exact...

(Reuters) - The U.S. government moved on Monday to block China Mobile Ltd from offering services to the U.S. telecommunications market, recommending its application be rejected because the government-owned firm posed nat...

Plan could reduce the number of central server operators Internet overseer ICANN is considering a self-managed governance model for the world's Domain Name System root servers - and one of the outcomes could be a reducti...

Similar to the way DevOps tools made cloud infrastructure more accessible and manageable, toolkits such as MLflow are attempting to accelerate machine learning

Not everyone thought it was possible, but Tesla towards the end of June finally manged to manufacture 5,000 Model 3 units per week. The path towards hitting that threshold, though, was anything but easy. Initially, Tesla...

The apps defended the practice, but said they've since stopped.