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Remember how Otto demonstrated a self-driving big rig truck without anyone in the cabin, making a great case for its eventual acquisition by Uber? It turns out that the company knowingly broke the rules, according to Bac...

San Franciscans just got an all-too-real demonstration of what it's like when hackers attack urban infrastructure. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency has confirmed that the Muni station computer system was hacked...

When Hello Games said that its No Man's Sky Foundation Update was laying the groundwork for things to come, it definitely wasn't kidding. Reddit user eegandj has discovered multiple files that hint at the addition of a b...

The music you listen to wasn't designed for small earphones and headsets which is why you need the Portable Headphone Amplifier and DAC by Oppo. This compact and travel-friendly device is compatible with virtually any se...

Add another streaming television offering to the fray. AT&T officially unveiled DirecTV Now today, its attempt to take on Sling TV and Sony's PlayStation Vue. It was first revealed way back in March, but now we've got th...

While Dish's Sling TV impressed us as a streaming television alternative for cord cutters (and it's gotten even better over time), rival service PlayStation Vue has had one major advantage from the start: cloud DVR. But ...

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, or even "professional" ones like LinkedIn have become so ingrained in our modern lifestyles that we sometimes take for granted that they aren't really as secure as real-wor...

There are some fairly lofty expectations riding on Final Fantasy 15, so the fact that the first reviews are beginning to come in should make this an exciting day for fans. The title has been in development in some fashio...

"It's clear Mr. Jia doesn't have any money," Nevada State Treasurer Dan Schwarz recently said of Jia Yueting, the tech mogul behind the mysterious Silicon Valley car startup Faraday Future. This does not look good.

Astronauts who return to Earth after long-duration space missions suffer from untreatable nearsightedness. Scientists have now isolated the cause, but finding a solution to the problem will prove easier said than done.

Modern science assumes that the speed of light has always been the same. Researchers have suggested that this seeming constant might have changed over time, however, and they now have a way to find out whether or not tha...

A cyber attack oddly gave San Franciscans something to be thankful for this weekend when officials responded to a hack of the city's transit system by giving away free rides.

Musicians love to play the themes from Super Mario games. YouTube is absolutely stuffed with covers using all sorts of novelty approaches. But this is the first time I've ever seen one man tackle all the musical parts an...

Office Christmas parties are an annual tradition that some people love and others hate. But either way, you're expected to attend. Many private companies throw their parties as a year-end thank you. But in the case of fe...

According to NASA, Mars is home to an ice deposit that has about as much water as Lake Superior. The ice deposit was found using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's ground-penetrating radar, says the space agency, with the...

Looks like San Francisco refused to give in to transit system hackers trying to hold the city for ransom. In a conversation with Motherboard, the attackers (still going by "Andy Saolis") have threatened to expose 30GB of...

The Great Barrier Reef lost more coral to bleaching in 2016 than in any other year on record, according to scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. The northern area was hit the worst: A region ...

You would think that it would be easy to spot a cosmic structure as enormous as a supercluster holding legions of galaxies, but not so -- the Milky Way can hide all kinds of objects, usually due to dust and stars obscuri...

Features for LG's next flagship smartphone are piling up and they're all talking about the latest and, maybe, greatest in mobile tech. It isn't surprising considering the big opportunity for the LG G6 to snatch the crown...

AT&T has introduced DirecTV NOW, a "completely new platform" that enables subscribers to stream live television over the Internet. The service allows users to stream up to two streams at once, and while it doesn't suppor...

The young people aren't paying for TV, you've probably heard. Well don't worry, says AT&T, we've got a plan. Today, the company officially announced its new, very hyped streaming TV service, DirecTV Now. Aimed at the 20 ...

Rogue One has a lot of ground to cover as a standalone story that also acts as a direct prequel to the original Star Wars. We already knew Darth Vader was going to be around to provide continuity. Now we seem to have con...