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Facebook announced today a new plan of action for combatting misinformation surrounding vaccinations. The social networking giant will start by reducing the ranking of groups and Pages that spread false information about...

It will soon be a war of words between Samsung and Huawei as the two rivals butt heads over foldable phones. Despite having tested both methods, each naturally claims theirs is better than the other. Huawei already went ...

Enterprise software startup Clari builds models of business deals using machine learning to enhance the pursuit of revenue. The company is extending its reach to more and more systems of records inside companies, hoping ...

Boston University researchers, Xin Zhang, a professor at the College of Engineering, and Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, released a paper in Physical Review B demonstr...

Despite new voice commands and features to help keep our hands on the wheel, distracted driving remains the No. 1 cause of car accidents in the US.

Arjuna Siva, a former Apple engineer who Apple says co-invented one of the patents in question, is no longer intending to appear.

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Trying to understand how new technologies will shape our lives is an exercise in managing hype. When technologists say their new invention has the potential to change the world, you'd hardly expect them to say anything e...

As technology and threat landscapes change so rapidly, so do the skills necessary for security pros, according to Dimensional Research.

When it unveiled the most sophisticated Assistant feature ever created last year, Google made quite a few waves. Google Duplex, which lets you instruct the Assistant to make calls on your behalf, looked like a sci-fi mar...

(Baylor College of Medicine) New approach brings a better understanding of Phelan-McDermid syndrome and SHANK3.

Chinese tech giant Huawei launches US court challenge to law that labels company a security risk and would reduce access to American market

The fourth cardboard Labo kit coming April 12 includes cardboard VR goggles.

The dream of a smartphone also acting as your PC has mostly been hampered by the unavailability of the desktop software we’ve come to expect from our computers. There have been a couple of attempts to address this limi...

Col. Bongiovi, director of SMC's Launch Enterprise Directorate, says the NSSL program will seek to leverage the U.S. commercial launch industry.

On Wednesday, the saga of the most infamous GoFundMe campaign in history came closer to a conclusion. A woman and a homeless man whom prosecutors claim engaged in a fraudulent scheme that raised $400,000 on the crowdfund...

The age a woman begins menstruation is associated with having high blood pressure later in her life, according to new research.

In an innovation that may ultimately help to prevent deadly bloodstream infections, a team of biomedical engineers and infectious disease specialists have developed a coating to keep intravascular catheters from becoming...

Researchers have created tiny functional, remote-powered, walking robots, developing a multistep nanofabrication technique that turns a 4-inch specialized silicon wafer into a million microscopic robots in just weeks. Ea...

Women who have lost at least 10 pounds, only to regain the weight within a year, are more likely to have a poor score on the American Heart Association's -- Life's Simple 7, a measure of how well people control important...

News Democratic Congressional leaders on Wednesday announced a bill to reinstate net neutrality regulations aimed at internet service providers that were put in place in 2015 and later repealed in 2017 by the FCC. Staff ...

News Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech giant Tencent got there years ago with its app WeChat. Contributed Author: Kelvin Chan, AP Bu...