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While in exile in Russia, Edward Snowden has been kind enough to offer some fellow Twitter users with the tech support they so desperately need. Or at least, he'll give you a hand if you have a significant online presenc...

Intel isn't just using drone swarms to show off its robotics prowess -- it's building a business around them. The chip maker has unveiled the Shooting Star, a quadcopter drone tailor-made for light shows. Its companion s...

Keep sipping your coffee comfortably this winter on this Porcelain Sweater Lace Coffee Mug. The beauty of this design lies in the sweater lace pattern that will make you feel the cosiness of winter even more. These mugs ...

Election Day is tomorrow and no matter what candidate you support, odds are you want to know who will be in charge of our country for at least the next four years. To help you keep up with what’s going on, Google and Y...

Tesla announced last month that all of its cars would be produced with self-driving technology on-board. Along with that announcement came some details on what the new Hardware2 or HW2 self-driving technology would entai...

The California Air Resources Board has reportedly discovered that even more VW-Group vehicles were cheating emissions tests. The WSJ and Reuters (via German paper Bild) are talking about how regulators have found softwar...

Spacentrepreneur Elon Musk thinks we'll eventually need a basic universal income because of "automation."

Every time there's a Pokémon Go update, the number one thing its remaining players ask about is access to a tracker to help locate the little critters. This weekend Niantic Labs announced it's expanding the test area of...

Scientists recently developed a method to convert sewage into biocrude oil, so it appears that our future will quite literally be shit. According to a report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers conver...

Google isn't just splitting its search indexes into desktop and mobile versions... it could start prioritizing mobile, too. The internet firm has started experimenting with a "mobile-first" index that primarily ranks sit...

For the road warriors and frequent drivers who want a connected vehicle without shelling out for a new car with built-in WiFi, T-Mobile's just announced SyncUP Drive should fill the coverage gap between your cell phone a...

Here's the short answer: we probably could not survive a nuclear winter. But the long answer, well, it depends on which countries are going to war, how many nukes are being dropped, and where those bombs are being detona...

Genealogy services are all about tracing your family's history, so it makes sense for one of these services to identify your genetic history, doesn't it? MyHeritage sure thinks so. It's introducing a $79 MyHeritage DNA k...

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources -- known as CCAMLR -- has announced that the Antarctic's Ross Sea will soon be the largest marine conservation in the world. The marine protected a...

Anti-drone defense systems are about to become big business. T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom has confirmed to Welt am Sonntag that it's developing an anti-drone defense system that should launch this year. It's ...

I had almost convinced myself that the "plot" of Westworld wasn't that important. That it was both semi-impossible to figure out what the twists and turns were and, more importantly, that doing so was a distraction from ...

City Living, the latest expansion for the The Sims 4, introduced Festivals, which have food stalls where your sims can eat. It's a nice bit of urban realism: when your sim is out and about, they can grab a quick bite on ...

Tomorrow is election day in the United States. More than a year of political maneuvering, partisan fundraising, polarizing debates and 24-hour election coverage comes to a close on Tuesday, November 8th. However, that's ...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 appears to have started its trickle of leaks this week with details dripping in from South Korea. The first big change seems to be in the device’s next-gen display. It would seem that the company ...

Verizon Wireless has added two new data-heavy plans for its prepaid customers, one with 5GB of 4G LTE data and the other with 10GB. The plans bring various perks with them, including hotspot support, carryover data, and ...

Health headlines were dominated last week by a study that seemed to confirm, once and for all, that cranberry juice cannot cure a urinary tract infection. The fact that the research study was actually on cranberry capsul...

Shane Kimbrough is an American hero. Not only is he risking his life breathing recycled air and eating tasteless, shrink-wrapped meals in a radiation-blasted tin can 250 miles above Earth, the man just took time out of h...