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Happy New Year! It’s been another wild and wacky ride of a year in the tech world: breakthroughs and disgraces, triumphs and catastrophes, cryptocurrencies and starships, the ongoing rise of utopian clean energy and dy...

Space is getting closer, thanks to small, cheap "satlets" that network themselves to solve problems in flight.

A Florida airport is making progress on a long-running effort to obtain a commercial spaceport license despite a lack of customers for the facility. SpaceNews.com

#19 in our top science stories of 2019.

The heart monitoring technology inside the Apple Watch may be useful for scientific studies and even saving lives, but one doctor believes it's also straight-up theft. New York University cardiologist Dr. Joseph Wiesel h...

From CPU and GPU to AI and 5G, here's how the Snapdragon 865 fares against Huawei and Samsung's best.

Many of us have workflows that depend on using two screens. So when using a MacBook, that can effectively mean cutting productivity in half. But with this easy add-on, you can instantly boost the visual real estate of an...

Egyptian regulators have approved Uber's $3.1 billion acquisition of regional rival Careem after agreeing to a set of commitments proposed by the U.S.-based ride-hailing service meant to reduce harm to competitors.

Google appears to have rolled out a new feature on mobile called ‘Watchlist’ that enables users to bookmark television shows and movies that they want to watch in the future. The feature appears within a card on Goog...

The statute was meant to standardize how companies disclose their consumer data-mining practices. So far, not so much.

Most foods list how many calories they contain. But are they right?

Tesla likes to brag about racking up sales without a lick of advertising, but it's apparently not averse to some product placement. Rapper Travis Scott has shared the video for "Gang Gang," and the car-centric video incl...

Snapchat’s most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020. Starting in February with a global release, your customizable Bitmoji avatar will become the star of a full-motion cartoon s...

Politicians and others complain that YouTube fosters extremism, but how caustic is it, really? Not all that much, according to researchers. Data scientist Mark Ledwich and UC Berkley researcher Anna Zaitsev have publishe...

Police are called to investigate possible home intruders and find a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.

Koch was also part of the duo that completed the first ever all-woman spacewalk, back in October.

A security researcher has found several vulnerabilities in a number of Ruckus Wireless routers, which the networking giant has since patched. Gal Zror told TechCrunch that the vulnerabilities he found lie inside in the w...

Daniel Bader, Andrew Martonik, Jerry Hildenbrand, and Ara Wagoner assemble one last time this decade for a look at the most significant stories affecting Android and Google users. They also look ahead towards towards 202...

Older mice given anti-inflammatory medication were better able to learn new tasks and became almost as adept at learning as mice half their age.

Intel's 10th-generation Core desktop processors appear to be right around the corner, and the biggest improvements may come to those who don't splurge on the most expensive models. Leaks at Informatica Cero and VideoCard...

Researchers urge people to reframe negative messages about eating and weight loss for the new year ahead.

Cardiologist Joseph Wiesel says Apple used his patented heartbeat-monitoring technology without permission and integrated it into Apple Watches.