Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 07:04

If you're worried about the possibility of skin cancer, you might not have to depend solely on the keen eye of a dermatologist to spot signs of trouble. Stanford researchers (including tech luminary Sebastian Thrun) have...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 16:51

Facebook isn't exactly a stellar example of a company that values your privacy, but it just made its features' privacy settings much easier to understand. The social network has debuted a redesigned Privacy Basics sectio...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 21:18

It's 2017 and a car company 'Murican enough to get its name shouted in a country music song finally sells an all-electric car. Well... again. This time they promise not to snatch it back and crush it. Which is nice, beca...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 08:01

If you want to email a .js file to somebody for any reason, you only have a few more days to do so through Gmail. The service will start blocking JavaScript file attachments starting on February 13th, adding it to its li...
Slash Gear - 26 Jan 2017 05:45

Now that Samsung has put an end to the embarrassing Galaxy Note 7 chapter of its life behind it, it can now proceed full steam ahead with the Galaxy S8. Well, maybe not full steam since we won't be expecting it within a ...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 04:35

Not sure if you've been paying attention, but the world isn't looking so great right now. People are scared. There's no easy way to make yourself feel better in these trying times, but here's something good--zoos around ...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 03:58

Uber's run-in with the California DMV has apparently been smoothed over for now. Although the ride-hailing giant has since shipped its real-world autonomous vehicle testing out of the state, several of the offending vehi...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 03:51

Wednesday night, a number of Twitter aficionados noted that when you search "asshole"--as well as "fascist," "bigot," and "racist"--on Twitter, the first result is the account of none other than our president, Donald J. ...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 23:44

When game consoles stumbled into the modern era, their digital content stores were a mess. Nintendo's Wii locked its customers to an annoying point system. The Xbox 360 obfuscated the value of Microsoft Points by using a...
Slash Gear - 26 Jan 2017 23:30

The iconic, beloved, and now-classic puzzle game Myst has made its way onto the Android platform via the new mobile game, realMyst. In it, players can head out into Myst Island, where studio Noodlecake Games says they ca...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 23:25

On October 18th, 1963, the Centre national d'études in France was set to send a small cat named Félix into space. After lagging behind its Soviet and American competitors, France was eager to stake its claim in the spa...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 23:20

It's almost time for Samsung's traditional February unveiling of a new Galaxy flagship, but, as we already learned, we might have to wait a little longer this year. We now have a clearer idea of when to expect the new ha...
Slash Gear - 26 Jan 2017 23:10

Nintendo‘s German arm has produced a second Switch commercial, barely a week after showing us the first. While the first Switch commercial centered around The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, this new one features ...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 22:55

If you've ever been disappointed when Words With Friends refused to accept "bae" as a real word, then noted actor, rapper and pun aficionado Ludacris has a new app for you. The wordsmith behind Word of Mouf and Back for ...
Slash Gear - 26 Jan 2017 22:47

Researchers with Stanford University and the University of Tokyo have announced a new breakthrough treatment that successfully cured mice of diabetes using a rat-grown mouse pancreas. The achievement could help lead to f...
Slash Gear - 26 Jan 2017 22:42

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I suspect it’d be an unusual critic that called the 2018 Aston Martin Vanquish S Volante anything other than stunning. The droptop version of the (hardly ugly) Vanquish S t...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 22:36

Tesla Motors shares have surged more than 40 percent since December as Bloomberg notes in a new report. The price of Tesla stock isn't the only thing looking dandy for Elon Musk under the Trump presidency.
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 22:30

Most media coverage has been trained on Russia's involvement in Syria, but Moscow is quietly beating America in a turf war on top of the Earth: the Arctic Circle.
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 22:27

LG's G6 smartphone is a leaky flagship: CNET is reporting some good and bad points about the company's incoming G6 we've already heard. It will be water-resistant. Great! But it won't have a removable battery. Not so gre...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 22:25

Before passage of the Affordable Care Act (branded 'Obamacare'), low-income people with HIV were trapped in a heinous Catch-22. Insurance companies denied them coverage because of their status, the drugs were too expensi...
Gizmodo - 26 Jan 2017 22:06

When the machines rise up, I'm jumping ship and selling out humanity so fast--we suck, we deserve it. So color me excited to see this cute ol' robot arm hilariously beat an 'I'm not a robot' CAPTCHA (and then let go of t...
Engadget - 26 Jan 2017 22:03

Cheating in online games is awful because it creates an uneven playing field against those who do play by the rules and those who do not. The Pokémon Company (TPC) noticed some irregularities in Pokémon Sun and Moon on...