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In a win for anyone who has ever been frustrated by overpriced ink, the Supreme Court ruled today (PDF) that printer maker Lexmark can't sue companies that refill old cartridges and sell them at a discount. More specific...

Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world's most profitable spy operation, Gizmodo has confirmed.

Virtual reality is inescapable here at Computex -- you're either stumblng into another Vive demo area or bumping into the occasional VR backpack. What's often missing is a sense of true immersion, though, and a startup c...

Reddit is quietly introducing the new ability to geotag posts, adding a layer of context to them that sheds a bit of light on the photo. If you’re browsing one of the food subreddits, for example, and see a meal that s...

Nintendo has a long history of building innovative game controllers -- the company put shoulder buttons on the SNES gamepad, added force feedback to the N64's bizarre controller and made a fad out of motion controls with...

A new experiment shows that long-term exposure to microgravity affects bacteria at the genetic level--conferring reproductive advantages that persist even after the bacteria is reintroduced to unaffected colonies and nor...

SoundCloud keeps expanding its influence to stay competitive with the likes of Spotify and Pandora. It borrowed $70 million last March to enhance its push into new markets, added new tiers to its subscription service, br...

Although modern AI systems still have trouble deciding whether or not to flip that stranded tortoise in their path, they're already outpacing the intellectual capabilities of their creators in a wide variety of fields. F...

Rambling late night tweets from the President of the United States have been a part of our reality for several months now, but the latest one has gone to a new level. At 12:06AM ET the @RealDonaldTrump account posted a m...

Donald Trump just wants to be everyone's best bud and he'd rather they skip the formalities and give him a call on his personal cellphone. For many reasons, this is very worrisome to the people who get paid to worry abou...

BlackBerry and TCL have teased the KEYone for nearly half a year, and now Americans can finally see what all the fuss is about without jumping through hoops. The two have revealed that unlocked, US-friendly variants of t...

One of the most consistently entertaining features of the video game streaming platform Twitch is the series of "Twitch Plays" videos that allow users to work together to beat a game. Today, a software developer who is e...

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We last heard about the Stratolaunch in August 2015, when Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's company Stratolaunch Systems announced plans for test flights with the massive airplane meant to help launch satellite-bearing r...

The live action X-Men universe is working overtime to lock down every young Hollywood actor it can get its hands on. It's a sound strategy. So after getting Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones and Anya Taylor-Joy from S...

North Korea has produced another tablet for its unfortunate citizens, one it calls the ‘iPad.’ Obviously not being an Apple device or anything like it, the tablet runs an unknown operating system and features bland, ...

Google has just added a bunch of new security features in order to protect Gmail users from spam and phishing messages. Though they didn't say as much, the bumped-up protection is likely in response to the phishing scam ...

This week the folks at Nokia have revealed that they’re ushering in a new era for Nokia smartphone. This is the month where users can expect a set of new Nokia brand smartphones with Android inside to be released aroun...

In recent years, Australia has been embroiled in an effort to cull kangaroos--this year alone, it's expected to kill over a million of them in an effort to protect endangered species in its grasslands. While the mass cul...

It's hard to believe it's been almost three years since Amazon announced its plan to deliver packages via drone. The first air delivery occurred last December in the UK and the retailer continues to refine the concept wi...

Over the past decade, a clear pattern has emerged in Hollywood: direct a successful, small movie and get a large blockbuster in return. That small movie doesn't even have to be that successful, either--it just has to be ...

Last year, a federal judge ruled Amazon was on the hook for tens of millions of dollars worth of unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids in free-to-play apps. This week, the online retail giant officially started issu...