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If you're thinking about swapping out Google's entry-level smart speaker, you can get a few bucks in cash or trade-in value out of your device. You'll need to wipe your device first though. Here's how to factory reset a ...

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi's next big-budget project, a live-action version of the beloved manga series Akira, finally has a release date, The Wrap reports: May 21st, 2021. Waititi's project, which is being di...

Cannabis vaporizers have come a long way. As weed becomes legal in more states, companies are free to devise new methods to administer the herb. Enter Omura and the Series 1. At first glance, it looks like a conventional...

Apple taught Elvin Hu new languages. Born in China, Hu refined his English by watching Apple keynote events. He also came to understand the visual language of Apple's product photography. The latter inspired Hu, a design...

Boeing has completed ground testing of the thrusters for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle, nearly a year after a setback in earlier testing of those thrusters. SpaceNews.com

At a time when engineers have been perfecting robots that can perform skills like walking, gymnastics stunts, and warehouse-related box-sorting, researchers from Italy's Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia just upped the ant...

A small village in France, about 50 miles southeast of Paris is facing a population decline that has put the future of the town's schoolhouse at risk. And the mayor has proposed a simple solution--everyone should just ha...

Help-desk tickets are regularly stranded for 72 hours while admins try to figure out what people are actually asking. Startup Moveworks is adapting natural language understanding to decipher and automate those mysterious...

Relational quantum mechanics suggests physics might be a science of perceptions, not observer-independent reality --

(Harvard Medical School) A first-of-its-kind comparison between elite pro athletes suggests higher overall mortality among NFL players compared with MLB players. NFL players also appear to have higher risk of dying from ...

It'll kick off its annual developer conference with a presentation by CEO Tim Cook and other execs at 10 a.m. PT.

Tesla has sold 50,000 cars this quarter already, according to a purported email from the automaker's chief.

Brian Krebs has revealed that a company that primarily works in real estate insurance has left as many as 885 million records exposed on its website -- going back to 2003. First American Financial Corp's big mistake shou...

A unique Iron Age shield made from bark provides a fascinating insight into prehistoric weapons technology.

Microsoft is revealing some of the more finer details about its upcoming xCloud game streaming service today. The software maker has been testing the service with employees recently, allowing them to take the service any...

Instead of a November 2019 release date, the Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie will be moved to 2020. This is not the first time a delay of this nature took place in the internet age – but it might be the most impor...

A new study found that infants at high risk for autism were less attuned to differences in speech patterns than low-risk infants. The findings suggest that interventions to improve language skills should begin during inf...

Click through, take a look at that photo. Astonishing. And lest you think it's a fake, here's a bit on the photo's origin. Finally, if this touches you at all, grab a copy of Jon Krakauer's amazing book, Into Thin Air. O...

Take a more sophisticated approach to your plating with the Marbled Ceramic Dinner Bowl. Compact in design, this bowl is perfect for anything from rice dishes to soup and everything in between. Featuring durable yet clas...

(Trinity College Dublin) Researchers at Trinity College have found that socioeconomic inequalities in children's body mass index (BMI) emerge during the preschool years and widen across childhood and into early adolescen...

A Reddit user who faced a legal fight to reveal their identity has been allowed to stay anonymous, a court has ruled. The user, who posts with the name "Darkspilver," was represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

Snapchat’s claim to fame has always been its privacy feature, automatically deleting so-called ephemeral messages or after a period of time. Ironically, the social network’s biggest criticisms have also been on its p...