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Apple charged out of the weekend ready to wage war with the FBI over a court order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone . In a memo to staff, Tim Cook proposed the formation of a government commission to settle the matter. The...

Artificial intelligence won't be truly convincing until it can understand emotions. What good is a robot that can't understand the nuances of what you're really saying? IBM thinks it can help, though. It just gave Watson...

We've just wrapped up the second day of Mobile World Congress, the annual mobile technology conference in Barcelona. We've seen smartphones, VR headsets, and some batshit crazy stuff (see photo above)--and almost all of ...

LG is jumping on the VR bandwagon with the release of its new LG 360 VR headset, designed exclusively for the new G5 phone . We had a chance to try it during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ended up with some stro...

In the absence of humans, global sea level might have dropped a smidge last century, according to a detailed analysis of our past and future climate published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science...

You might never have to worry that you'll fall victim to a heart condition passed along by your family. Researchers have developed a blood test that can reliably detect all known inherited heart problems, like geneticall...

HRL Laboratories has figured out how to replicate the rapid stiffening and softening of human muscle in metal. The technology could be used to create the ultimate automotive suspension, or give a robot the strength and s...

Facebook is the latest tech giant to join Apple's battle against the FBI. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he supports Apple's decision not to provide back-door acce...

"The Division" beta came to an end today, and with its close comes an announcement from Ubisoft: more than 6.4 million gamers played the beta, making it the largest beta ever for a new title on present-gen gaming console...

It wasn't what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week at the Samsung Galaxy S7 press conference. It was what he didn't say. It was the photo you're about to see. It was the future he intends to build with Samsung, w...

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a galaxy with a rather remarkable feature--a massive plume of gas measuring 300,000 light-years across. That's five times the length of...

Amid on-stage sweat, several wireless microphone issues and pointed (but important) questions from his interviewer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held his ground at Mobile World Congress tonight. For the most part, the ke...

Sometimes you sit in front of your TV and realize you're watching something important. It happens quite often on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Sunday's episode was no exception. In addition to an incendiar...

The European Space Agency has published images of a Mars region showing marks left by water in the Red Planet's distant past. According to the ESA, water has left "a variety" of marks on Mars, parts of which have been ca...

David Bowie released his final album, Blackstar, on his 69th birthday just two days before he passed away. He gave InstaMiniSeries access to the songs ahead of the release to transform the tunes into a miniseries of "vis...

It's been a while since we've had a new Doom title. Doom 3 made its way into the world back in 2004, making it just shy of a teenager now. Thankfully, we're not too far away from the release of the next title, which is s...

The Palau Nacional (Catalan for National Palace) is a gigantic Renaissance-style palace built in 1929 that now serves as the main art museum in Barcelona. Google sent me into that gorgeous maze of never-ending halls and ...

When LG announced its new flagship smartphone, the G5, at Mobile World Congress yesterday, it did something radically different. At the base of the phone, LG built a small slot that might just change everything.

The Marina 101 is a residential skyscraper in Dubai which is, as the name suggests, 101 stories tall. James Kingston decided to (illegally) ascend the building and walk out onto a crane which he repeatedly and alarmingly...

Oral-B debuted its Smart Series of connected toothbrushes last year, and at Mobile World Congress 2016, the company announced a new model. The Oral-B Genius touts Position Detection tech that uses motion sensors and your...

Even if you are not a League of Legends junkie or a professional blacksmith, that doesn't mean you can't appreciate the incredible work that the Man At Arms folks put into their replicas of seemingly impossible weapons.

When Waze got Arnold Schwarzenegger to add his voice to their navigation app, it felt like a huge deal. But that was before the company recruited the best damn narrator in the history of the planet, Morgan Freeman. Freem...