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This post provides an introduction to Gradle - the build tool used by Android studio to package projects into APKs ready for release.

Opensignal has released a new report today about mobile network speeds in the US, offering an overview of how smartphone download speeds haven't improved all that much from this time last year. The report goes into great...

I've been a fan of podcasting since 2004 when I was listening to This Week in Tech, DL.TV, The MacCast and other great shows. Since then, the podcast industry has grown by leaps and bounds. When the iPhone included a bui...

(British Heart Foundation) People admitted to NHS hospitals with a cardiac arrest over the weekend do not face a higher risk of dying compared to those admitted during the week, according to new research presented today ...

The question of whether an artificial general intelligence will be developed in the future--and, if so, when it might arrive--is controversial. One (very uncertain) estimate suggests 2070 might be the earliest we could e...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond as the first three private companies to deliver science and technology payloads under the Commercial Lunar P...

Google's DeepMind lab created an A.I. program that was able to beat humans at Quake III Arena's Capture the Flag. Interestingly, a team with a human and an A.I. agent had a better chance of winning than a team with just ...

Is that a panda in your living room? Yes, yes it is. Google mobile search for different animals on smartphones now brings up the option to view them as augmented reality images that you can place into your surroundings, ...

A major Google Cloud outage this afternoon has brought down numerous websites and services, including many of Google’s own products and platforms like Snapchat and Discord. Apple is also affected by the outage, accordi...

The future of environmentally friendly food may rely heavily on lab-grown insect meat, according to a new scientific report. Unlike lab-grown beef, pork, and other traditional meat products, these insect alternatives wou...

Series co-creator John Romero has released Sigil, the unofficial fifth episode of the original Doom. The free mod is made up of nine distinct levels that are playable in single-player, cooperative, and deathmatch modes. ...

If you missed the ultra-cheap $0.99 movie rentals deal Google launched in February, good news: it’s ‘Ultimate Movie Weekend’ on the Google Play Movies & TV store. Under this new deal, Google is offering movie renta...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the request to raise the agency's 2020 budget for the Artemis lunar program was not dead despite a lack of action on it by House appropriators.

Commentary: iRobot's new Roomba s9+ vacuum and Braava Jet m6 mop cost tons of money. Can they possibly be worth it?

With mountains of product leaks and an underwhelming amount of innovation, the moments of sincere, unmanufactured awe that Apple events used to be known for are few and far between these days. But at Apple's 2018 event, ...

Champagne is now connected: Thanks to tracking technology, champagne houses now have tools to better guard against fraud while gaining a new channel to interact with their customers.

(University of Cambridge) A new study shows how a non-profit research organisation has been deployed by its backers from major food and beverage corporations to push industry-favorable positions to policy makers and inte...

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Vienna, Austria (June 1-3, 2019) shows that mortality in patients who had undergone heart bypass surgery was o...

(University of Queensland) Some doctors fear litigation and professional ruin if they are seen to have overprescribed opioids to terminally ill patients, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) A team of Japanese scientists has used facial recognition technology to develop an automated system that can predict when patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at high ...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Enzalutamide, an oral androgen receptor inhibitor, can improve outcomes for men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), according to a large study presented by Christophe...

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) Receiving a blood transfusion during curative surgery for the most common type of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is associated with a much higher risk of cancer recurr...