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We take a harder look at how female gamers are portrayed in porn.

The smartphone has become a useful tool in shining a light on police abuse and overreach. Now, there's a Siri shortcut that quickly readies your iPhone to record your experience with police during a traffic stop. The sho...

Apple has made it no secret that it wants the Apple Watch to be the health wearable you'd ever want (and, in consequence, require you to purchase an iPhone to go along with it. But while the new ECG heart monitoring is d...

Researchers found that even very light workouts can increase the connectivity between parts of the brain responsible for memory formation and storage.

With its cutesy curls and plaintive eyes, it's no wonder the labradoodle became America's second-favorite dog in 2010. But the man who first invented the breed by crossing a Labrador with a poodle in the '80s ended up re...

Germany wants to sell Canada a secondhand drone that's cost over 700 million euros ($823 million) _ without many core components it needs to fly

Artificial intelligence which scans battlefields for hidden attackers has been successfully trialled by the British Army.

Apple has modified macOS Server, and with Mojave upon us, it’s good to know about the changes Apple has implemented. Here’s a link to the Apple Migration Guide. From the intro: “macOS Server is changing to focus mo...

Check out this video of John Lennon, George Harrison, and The Plastic Ono Band in the studio recording “How Do You Sleep?” This recording is labeled Takes 5 and 6. It’s an outtake without the strings and other prod...

Siri Shortcuts speeds up your use of iOS but doesn't work on macOS. Yet there are many, many Mac tools that will take this shortcut automation so very much further. AppleInsider automatically saves keystrokes, automates ...

The latest update of the Mac operating system is expected to hit today -- potentially alongside a zero-day bug which circumvents OS privacy controls.

Filmmakers love to explore memory problems--in the form of amnesia, dementia, manipulation, conflicting recollections of the past, you name it. And this thematic fascination isn't limited to any one movie genre; it's the...

News BAE Systems is aiming to shape future intuitive technologies for pilots with a "wearable cockpit" design. "In terms of future concepts, we are looking at what we are calling a 'wearable cockpit'. Here, you remove ma...

Once again, Google has rankled privacy-focused people with a product change that appears to limit users' options. It's easy to miss the fact that you're automatically being logged-in to Chrome if you're not paying attent...

The participants in Facebook's Community Leadership Program aim to tackle everything from farming to racial tensions.

Japan just made history by landing two small rovers on the surface of an asteroid hurtling through space 174 million miles (280 million km) from Earth, and here’s the first published photo from the rovers shot from the...

A comic strip beagle shares space with a romantic novel and an iconic starship in a new exhibit that asks the public to consider: What would you pack if you were leaving Earth?

The identity politics of tech are real. We become obsessed with the devices that power our lives, and they can drive us to heated arguments--however preposterous--with anyone who loves a competing product, platform, or s...

Hours after we told you about the mysterious new Pokemon that appeared in the network traffic for Pokemon Go, we began receiving emails from players who had actually found and caught it. At the time, we knew hardly anyth...

Princeton researchers, in collaboration with Analog Devices Inc., have fabricated a chip that markedly boosts the performance and efficiency of neural networks--computer algorithms modeled on the workings of the human br...

You might think of black holes as enormous vacuum cleaners, sucking in all the matter and light that ventures too close. But confusingly, scientists normally see stuff leaving the area around a black hole, via jets of ma...

News Enthusiasm for an emerging digital health tool, the smart pill, is on the rise but researchers have published a paper that cautions health care providers and policymakers to slow down when it comes to allowing this ...