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President Barack Obama learned of Russia's attempts to hack US election systems in early August 2016, and as intelligence mounted over the following months, the White House deployed secrecy protocols it hadn't used since...

The first of several new languages for Google's Assistant AI is here, as users have noticed Canadian French as a language option. I was able to switch it on for my Google Home by looking for Assistant Language under devi...

As if the so-called ‘Planet 9’ wasn’t interesting enough, researchers with the University of Arizona have detailed a newly discovered ‘planetary mass object’ that could prove to be a Planet 10. This object is s...

Liven up your wearables game with the Kronaby Connected Hybrid Smartwatches. Each of the watches in this collection combines the classic beauty of a traditional watch with the modern tech of smartwatches. The Kronaby Col...

Now that Sharp is under new ownership by Foxconn, it may have big plans for a return to TV prominence. In a move that could explain a sudden push to recover the use of its name from Hisense, the Japanese company apparent...

Earlier this week, Beta Archive posted Windows 10 source code related to USB, storage and WiFi drivers on its free FTP site. Now, a spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that this code, from the Shared So...

This weekend is the 30th anniversary of Spaceballs, Mel Brooks (somewhat) beloved Star Wars spoof. Brooks might've set out to imitate and satirize George Lucas' iconic work, but that doesn't mean everyone else did their ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still on his listening tour/presidential campaign test run and he's been very busy the last few days. Just moments ago he showed up in Omaha to visit the Pride Festival. But Friday's late-...

After a report from The London TImes that the email addresses and passwords of British cabinet members and other government officials were being traded by Russian hackers, it looks like the inevitable next step has occur...

Climate change might be bringing us closer to the guns-blazing desert apocalypse of Mad Max, but we're not quite there yet. Unfortunately, it looks like one guy in California didn't get the memo.

Ladies and gentlemen, I fear that the fix was in at this year's World's Ugliest Dog competition. A three-year-old Neopolitan Mastiff named Martha took the $1,500 top prize at the annual celebration of repulsiveness in Pe...

Does a tweet count as an official response to a federal inquiry? Unsurprisingly, the White House thinks so. As reported by Reuters, the White House sent a letter to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee cla...

Fitbit's Alta is one of the first fitness trackers that actually looks nice on your wrist, owing largely to its fashionable interchangeable bands, and you can pick one up on Amazon for $70 brand new right now. That's by ...

Disney Pixar's Toy Story is one of those series that tugs at every single heart string, but it turns out there are few more to pull... as Andy's dad might have one of the saddest stories in Pixar history.

Apple Is a Step Closer to Making Its Own TV Shows David Sims, The Atlantic While the company's television aspirations remain largely a mystery, Apple hired two big names this week to help build its slate of original show...

If the current look of your Apple Watch‘s main screen is getting a little stale, and you’re already tired of the existing Mickey and Minnie Mouse faces, you’ll soon have the option adorning your smartwatch with Toy...

Microsoft has confirmed that a significant chunk of its source code for Windows 10 was posted to a repository called BetaArchive. The exact size of the leak has been disputed, but the data reportedly comes from the Share...

It's not widely known, but for a very brief period in the early 1950s, the Cold War was being fought with massive, bulbous slabs of cyclopean automotive futurism: the first concept cars. Before the Space Race got started...

This used to be an ordinary Game Boy SP until DIY-er Alexander Blake decided to make it into a retro-accessory for his Switch. It's a lot more work and less sturdy than the one that comes packaged with the console, but y...

All online games eventually die. But the difference between the original version of World of Warcraft and, say, Call of Duty: Ghosts is that WoW was more of a service on an open system (PC). Players were able to graduall...

Wonder Woman isn't the only deity anymore. Eugene Brave Rock, who plays Chief in DC's blockbuster film Wonder Woman, looks to have confirmed one of the movie's big secrets: Chief is a demi-god.

The last week has been a frustrating one for Grand Theft Auto V players, specifically those among the game’s PC modding community. Things came to a head earlier this month when Take-Two, GTA 5‘s publisher, sent a cea...