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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The era of Google using a pair of controversial loopholes to save billions of dollars in taxes on overseas ad revenue is coming to a close, according to a new report from Reuters. ...

In South Korea, where the next-generation wireless network has been rolled out widely, download speeds have risen but many users aren't impressed.

From commercial crew to a flood of Mars missions, 2020 promises to be an exciting year for spaceflight.

Pop-up notifications are frequent for many iPhone users who have downloaded Apple's iOS 13. They arrive every few days for each app that tracks location while not in use and includes maps.

(Institut Pasteur) Parasites in the genus Plasmodium, which cause malaria, are transmitted to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes. The parasites manage to acclimatize to these two completely different hosts bec...

Huawei reported resilient revenue for 2019 on Tuesday as the embattled Chinese technology group continues to grow despite prolonged American campaign against its business, but cautioned that growth next year could prove ...

Democratic presidential contender and Joe Biden has some advice for the recently disrupted: learn to program.

As far as I'm concerned, Google Maps no longer provides merely a superior navigation experience compared to other maps applications out there. I've also found myself increasingly using it for all sorts of non-maps uses, ...

New rumors continue to trickle out regarding a significant name change Samsung may be planning for its 2020 Galaxy S11 lineup -- a Galaxy S11 lineup that may not even be called that at all. We already reported here, base...

Samsung, the same company that spent 2019 tripping over itself repeatedly in its attempts to produce a decent foldable phone that didn't crap out after a couple days' usage, is teasing a major unveiling it's planning for...

Apple Music Replay shows you you top 100 songs of 2019, and all kinds of great trivia about your listening habits. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

A new image released by NASA shows a gorgeous display of fireworks in a galaxy located about 23 million light-years away.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was just awarded Game of the Year at The Game Awards, but FromSoftware's Elden Ring could be releasing sooner than we thought. The studio's website suggests it could release in June.

For most of history, technology was about atoms, the manipulation of physical stuff to extend humankind's reach. But in the last five or six decades, atoms have partnered with bits, the elemental "particles" of the digit...

Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an image of large-scale, coherent, magnetic fields in the halo of a faraway s...

This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away.

As students, Jussi Lindgren and Jukka Liukkonen had found one element of their quantum mechanics lectures unsatisfying. "When we were taught physics, there were some fundamental elements you were told were true, and you ...

Researchers in China have improved the accuracy of detecting space junk in orbit around the earth. The goal of the project is to allow more effective plotting of safe routes for spacecraft maneuvers. The researchers say ...

NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics and other space science topics at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Saturday, Jan. 4, through Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Honolul...

We're still well over a month away from the start of baseball spring training programs across the country, but that didn't stop one particularly ambitious black bear from strutting his stuff at Lindsey Nelson Stadium thi...

The Cambridge Analytica data scandal may have come to light nearly two years ago, but the former company -- and as a result, Facebook -- is still feeling the effects of the fall out. Brazil's government has imposed a $1....

You don't need special glasses to see what it looks like when smart people run out of ideas.