Gadget News

Google wants its self-driving cars on roads and your driveway as soon as possible, and today it is asking Congress to acknowledge that autonomous vehicles are so radically new that they need a whole new set of rules.

iRobot's Roomba robots already suck: now they can spit, too. The iRobot Braava Jet isn't rude, though, it's actually intended for bathroom and kitchen floors, as well as rooms with wood and laminate surfaces. Cheaper tha...

(Results may vary if you're trying to meditate at a SXSW party, for crying out loud.)

Google's DeepMind AI has already played four games of Go against top human Lee Sedol, and the tally is 3-1 for the machines--good for computer scientists, bad for our betting chances against Skynet. Starting at midnight ...

Don't look now, but Instagram is about to borrow a page from its owners at Facebook. The image-focused social network has revealed that it'll soon re-order photos and videos to show the content that it believes you'll "c...

GIFs are portable human expressions. Looped images of grumpy cats, falling babies and weird Drake moves convey a barrage of information and emotions in a way that words and emoji cannot. While the format has been around ...

In a move that should surprise exactly no one, Instagram is testing an algorithm-based newsfeed for its users, similar to what you see on Facebook. And according to a blog post from the company, they plan to force this c...

Paper prescriptions: they're hard to read, easy to lose, and, for those particularly desperate, not terribly difficult to modify. Starting March 27, New York will be the first state to require all doctors to submit presc...

If you wanted something a little bit bigger to sink your teeth into for PlayStation VR, there's Star Wars: Battlefront. It's a third-party exclusive and, well, Sony's Andrew House didn't say much more beyond that at toda...

The PlayStation VR headset lands in October 2016 for $400 (€400 / £350 / ¥44,980), Sony announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. PS VR, originally called Project Morpheus, is Sony's answer ...

Sony's PlayStation VR virtual reality device will be $400 and out this October, the publisher announced today.

A geophysicist in California says the San Andreas fault could be triggered into rupturing by the smaller San Jacinto fault nearby, causing a single devastating earthquake. Such a "joint rupture" may have happened before-...

This week Google updated their spec guidance for bottom navigation for developers making Android apps - for the apps you use. What does this mean for you? It means that the apps you're working with tomorrow should look a...

According to a report from the Italian newswire service ANSA, Pope Francis will make his grand entrance on Instagram on Saturday, March 19th, under the handle @Franciscus. The Earth-shaking piece of intel reportedly came...

If you live in DC, I really hope you get to work from home on Wednesday. Starting at midnight tonight, the nation's capital is closing its entire metro for at least 29 hours for a system-wide safety survey of electrical ...

Newly announced and launching soon is the TomTom Golfer 2, the company's second-generation Golfer smartwatch. As in the past, this wearable is packed with features targeted specifically at golfers, including things like ...

The Oculus Rift isn't the only virtual reality platform getting a piece of Minecraft's pie. Today, at a GDC 2016 event, Microsoft and Oculus are set to announce that the open-world phenomenon is also coming to the Gear V...

Tattoo removal is a growth industry. And I suspect it's only going to get bigger in 2017 when people sober up after the general election this November.

Disney and Lucasfilm have apparently whittled the list of actors who could star in the Han Solo origin movie down from every young man in Hollywood to just three people: Taron Egerton, Jack Reynor, and Alden Ehrenreich.

Dutch history meets modern energy initiatives in artist Daan Roosegaarde's latest installation, which uses beams of green light to visualize the movement of the country's windmills.

When it comes to remixes and mashups, music licensing deals and royalties become tricky business. Thanks to a new deal with Dubset, though, Apple Music will gain an entire collection of the tunes. Dubset's MixBANK distri...

Researchers have confirmed that a 68-million-year-old fossil found in Montana came from a pregnant Tyrannosaurus Rex. This not only will make it easier for other scientists to sex different fossils, it gives us an insigh...