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Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac: Smart home devices are potentially one of the bigger security threats since there is no easy way to check what they are up to on your network. That's a problem Princeton University has set out to so...

Human news anchors anxious about robots taking their jobs will be feeling reassured this week after the appearance on Russian TV of a news-reading android that clearly needs a bit of work. The post Russia’s robot news ...

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Puma unveiled its high-tech self-lacing shoe at the start of the year, and now it's looking for volunteers from around the world to try it out and offer feedback so it can finalize the design prior to launch. The post Pu...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Identifying a protein that plays a key role in cancer cell growth is a first step toward the development of a targeted cancer therapy. It is especially promising when th...

One of the most talked about trends in mobile photography is the so-called Night Mode. More than just low-light photography, this special mode often employed tricks to truly bring out details in the dark without increasi...

Apple's TV series adaptation of Isaac Asimov's epic sci-fi novel Foundation has already experienced its first major shakeup. Josh Friedman, who was originally tapped to lead the show alongside David S. Goyer, has reporte...

The Chinese 360°/VR camera and software company Kandao has announced a new technology called AI Slow-Motion that uses machine learning to turn ordinary footage into super slow motion shots. For example, it can make a 30...

My desire to power up a laptop with an external graphics card began in 2015, when I set out on a quest to get back into PC gaming--a beloved pastime I'd neglected since childhood. But the only PC I had at the time was a ...

The only good social network is evidently toying with the idea of purging the worst thing about social media--and I, for one, couldn't be more on board.

Happy Easter and chag sameach, everybody. (Although if your mom no longer lets you put out an Easter basket, "happy" may not be the right word.) But, just like any other holiday weekend, there is literally nothing stoppi...

Chicken eggshells could provide a cheap and easily accessible alternative to traditional batteries The post Researchers use eggshells to conduct power for renewable energy appeared first on Springwise.

As Uber finally closes in on its IPO, its self-driving car unit is getting a big cash infusion and some independence. The company announced tonight that Toyota, Denso and Softbank are investing a total of $1 billion in i...

Have you ever taken a step back and really thought about just how staggeringly large Disney has become? When I was young, all that "Disney" represented was theme parks and animated feature films. But over the past severa...

A German startup will build its all-electric hatchback in Trollhättan.

In an interview with WIRED, "Jeopardy!" record-holder Ken Jennings explains what makes Holzhauer great--and what would happen if they faced off.

You don't have to be a power user of Netflix to know that as time goes by, there's a massive and ever-changing inventory of content on the service that it's near-impossible to keep track of -- with dozens and dozens of N...

New evidence points to a key role for a molecular switch called VGLL3 in autoimmune diseases, and the major gap in incidence between women and men. Building on past research showing that women have more VGLL3 in their sk...

Since the CRISPR genome editing technology was invented in 2012, it has shown great promise to treat a number of intractable diseases. However, scientists have struggled to identify potential off-target effects in therap...

A recent Buzzfeed article points out that several popular Android apps available on the Google Play Store have been collecting and storing sensitive user data without encryption or permission.

In a rare move by Facebook that doesn't have the world shaking its head in disbelief, the company's AI researchers have developed a way to easily turn real people into playable game characters by simply analyzing videos ...

A solid metallic core nearly as large as Earth's might be lurking deep within the solar system's smallest planet.