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A few posts came out yesterday that provided greater clarity on Google’s ambitions with Pixel and how those ambitions may impact the overall Android ecosystem. First, an interview with Hiroshi Lockheimer came out yeste...

Tesla Motors is being sued by a former engineer who claims he suffered discrimination -- and was ultimately fired -- because of his age. Thomas Flessner, age 69, was hired by Tesla in 2012 to work as a materials engineer...

Meet Shep Smith. He's a Fox News anchor with absolutely no meteorological credentials that we could find. That didn't stop him from filling his Floridian viewers with a message of hope about the impending Hurricane Matth...

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A month ago, Soylent released Food Bars, a product that allegedly "offers the same complete nutrition [as Soylent 2.0] but in a lighter, more portable form factor." (According to scientists, Soylent 2.0 does not offer co...

Comcast's data restrictions are going from testing to reality for most of its customers. Its 'XFINITY Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan' is already in place in a number of places, and will roll out to 18 new markets (inc...

Amazon has offered a very basic streaming music service for a few years now, but it looks like the company is nearly ready to significantly revamp its offerings. An Echo-only streaming music option may be coming in the n...

At this point, "creepy clowns" have been spotted in over a dozen cities, and at least one has supposedly lightly scratched a young boy. Whether or not we're ready to admit it, our days of being able to walk down the stre...

Facebook initially launched "Free Basics" as a way to bring basic internet services to countries with limited or no traditional internet connectivity, but now it sounds like the company is working with the White House to...

A video published this week showed an iPhone 7 with what appeared to be a scratched lens cover glass. This would be astounding, given the idea that Apple did indeed make this lens cover glass with Sapphire, a material th...

Staples now supports Apple Pay on the mobile web, allowing its customers to pay with Apple's mobile payment system via their smartphone. Assuming they're shopping on its "m.staples.com" website and using Safari, customer...

On Sept. 1, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded dramatically on the launch pad during fueling operations as the rocket was being prepared for a static firing test. The actual cause of the explosion is not yet known, but th...

Some of us do find it difficult to get some much needed shuteye at night, and this could boil down to many different reasons. Among them include plenty of stress during our waking hours, so much so that it is nigh imposs...

Lenovo would further consolidate its position as the top PC maker.

Self-driving cars will probably make the world a better place--someday--when they eliminate the likelihood of injuries in crashes. Today, is not that day.

Verizon has announced the launch of the ASUS ZenPad Z10, a tablet exclusively available through the carrier. All things considered, the slate is impressive, boasting a metal unibody, 2k-resolution display, and support fo...

Two weeks ago, security researcher Brian Krebs' site KrebsOnSecurity got knocked offline by one of the biggest DDOS attacks ever recorded, which peaked at 620 Gbps. What happened? Akamai, which had been protecting the si...

Let's say you're not happy with the way you've been treated at work, but your objections have fallen on deaf ears. If you start hunting around for another job, it's all too easy for that information to leak back to your ...

YouTube's The Slow Mo Guys have turned some of life's most mundane happenings into amazing footage using their high-speed cameras. But capturing an underwater explosion at a blistering 120,000 frames per second lets us s...

Netflix's runaway hit Stranger Things did a lot of things right, and chief among them: antagonizing the US Department of Energy.

You can hardly be blamed if you’d forgotten about Oculus Touch, a pair of controllers meant to accompany the Oculus Rift VR headset. The Touch was delayed at the end of last year and at the time was given a new launch ...