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IBM Watson can add yet another skill to its resume: the ability to make movie trailers. 20th Century Fox has tapped into the supercomputer's powers to create the first AI-made trailer for its upcoming thriller film Morga...

Rosetta's scientists are doing every bit of science they can before the European Space Agency crashes the probe into the comet it's been studying. In fact, the spacecraft's Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (MIDAS) has ...

HP reveals two new desktop computer systems and a set of displays this week, all in the name of "desktop reinvention." They're aiming to hit the desktop universe hard with a few oddities - beautiful oddities, at that. Th...

In August, Twitter proudly announced that it had suspended 235,000 accounts connected to the "promotion of violence or terrorism on our platform." The company's blog post focused on accounts of the Islamic extremist vari...

So you have more or less completed your collection of Apple-branded devices with a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, an iPhone, an iPad, and of course, the Apple Watch that will help you keep the time in style, and then some. ...

The good news is that a modern hurricane will probably not directly kill you. The bad news is that there are many ways you can kill yourself when a tropical system comes knocking on your door. Let's talk about the way pe...

Fashion mogul and designer Karl Lagerfeld has realized that the adult coloring book fad isn't going away any time soon. But instead of cashing in with his own line of coloring books, he's collaborated with Faber-Castell ...

The internet hates just about everything, but it especially hates movie reboots and remakes. But the new Blair Witch movie has cleverly managed to use that venom in a positive way, and it began with keeping the movie a s...

In just a week's time, Apple will be revealing the true for of the iPhone 7, which is expected, among other things, to ditch the 3.5 mm headphone jack for a do-everything Lightning connector. Whether that comes to pass o...

Two astronauts are about to step outside of their flying metal space-tube for a six-hour walk around the void. The purpose is to do a little DIY space station repair.

At a quiet, barely-attended press conference on the far side of Berlin, Qualcomm revealed its plan to get the cost of VR headsets to plummet. The company has been working on a series of reference designs that encompass p...

Samsung halts sales of its latest flagship to do more safety testing.

What should have been a fairy tale ending to Samsung's 2016 might be turning into a nightmare. Although lauded as one of this year's best smartphones so far, pending the official reveal of the iPhone 7, the Samsung Galax...

HP is trying to make desktop computers as exciting as laptops and all-in-ones.

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany conducted a study that sent out 1,700 emails that simulated a phishing scam, and made an unfortunate discovery: around half of the participants, even ones that cla...

Geologists have discovered possible evidence of ancient life in rocks that are over 3.7 billion years old. It's an extraordinary find that, if confirmed, would make the fossils within the oldest we have on Earth.

Many appliance makers are forming partnerships to drag their lineups into the smart home era, but Bosch's alliance may be something special. It's teaming up with Drop (of smart scale fame) to add intelligence to kitchen ...

Alcatel is not a big player in the global smartphone market, but that fact that it just launched a standalone headset shows how ubiquitous VR is about to become. The Vision doesn't require a separate smartphone like Sams...

Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH, a unit of CNH Industrial, just unveiled a seriously intimidating-looking tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Called the Autonomous Concept Vehicle, the robotic t...

Marcel Lehel Lazar, a Romanian hacker better known by his handle, Guccifer, was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison Thursday morning. He pled guilty to charges of "unauthorized access to a protected computer and agg...

Bots have been all the rage in Facebook Messenger over the last few months, but today the social network is adding a new way to chat with your pals. The company announced a tool called Instant Video that allows you to ha...

It seems like it was only yesterday that most smart thermostat makers were content with their simple solutions, leaving the more complicated heating zone control systems to those with prior experience. Actually... that w...