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South Africa's Cape Town is in dire need of freshwater, and an ambitious marine-salvager has an unusual solution: kidnap an Antarctic iceberg, use tankers and tugboats to drag it to Cape Town, and use the meltwater to hy...

The fifth season of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on June 5th, 2019. We're looking at each of the se...

The ISS will be open to tourists and commercial manufacturing, NASA leaders announced on Friday at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City.

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HMD Global has announced a new affordable Nokia smartphone after launching a five-camera flagship and a bunch of low-to-mid end devices just a few months ago at MWC. The Nokia 2.2 is part of the company's Android One fam...

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A Florida man was thrown in jail for 44 days for refusing to unlock two iPhones in his possession during a traffic stop, an incident fuelling the ongoing privacy debates over how law enforcement can legally gain access t...

Big-spending luxury brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior are splashing out on everything from dance-fuelled fashion shows to teams of advisers as they target social media platforms in the hunt for young sh...

WatchOS 6 pushes Apple's smartwatch to greater independence, but it needs to stand completely alone.

It’s been quite some time since we last heard from the StarCraft franchise in any meaningful way – the final expansion for StarCraft 2, Legacy of the Void, launched back in 2015 – and it looks like we may be waitin...

If you ever need to set your camera down temporarily, make sure you choose a safe place with as little gravitational potential energy as possible. It seems one photographer learned this lesson the hard way and paid a dea...

On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported that investigators from the Department of Justice will examine "Google's business practices related to its search and other businesses." It's one of the biggest threats Googl...

Are you feeling stressed about the state of the world? Turns out that anxiety could be rubbing off on your dog.

This week, a group of 17 automakers sent a letter to President Trump asking him to back down from his administration's plan to roll back Obama-era vehicle emissions standards. But while the letter was framed as a rebuke,...

FedEx announced today that it won't renew its FedEx Express US contract with Amazon. Instead it will "focus on serving the broader e-commerce market." While Amazon relies on other carriers, usually UPS and the United Sta...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus that rapidly measures the entire infrared band of light to detect biological...

In 2015, a massive snowstorm -- or, more precisely, a series of massive snowstorms -- stranded nearly 50 commuters on a broken train in Boston. Plenty of others were stuck at knotted-up stations since many of the system'...

Facebook has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei in order to comply with U.S. restrictions, dealing a fresh blow to the Chinese tech giant.

Spain has extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, drawing protest from Taiwan's government. The suspects arrived Friday morning at Beijing airport on a chartered flight. Footage on st...

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It might not be a Tesla Model X with falcon-wing doors and a sleek sunroof, but car-sharing apps still want to rent out your ride.  Putting your Toyota Prius on any major car-sharing app means it gets the same royal tre...

Toyota and Subaru are joining forces again, but they're not interested in creating another sports car -- at least not for now. Instead, they're pooling their resources to design a platform capable of underpinning electri...