Gadget News

High-energy batteries, like the ones in your laptop and smartphone, can fail, which can cause them to overheat and even catch fire. A team of researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) , a technique that won the...

A domestic property loses as much as 20% of its heat through windows. For big glassy commercial buildings, that figure is a lot higher, resulting in big heating bills and inevitable disputes among employees about the the...

The amount of data we produce and consume each day is staggering. And that's not just in our regular lines of work but even with just the photos and videos we take day in, day out, with our smartphones. Storing those at ...

You know how you were planning to impress trick-or-treaters this Halloween by handing out full-sized Snickers bars? If you live in San Francisco, don't bother, because nothing you can do on October 31st will ever best To...

This afternoon it became evident that we’d not seen the end of the surprises during this Pokemon GO event! During the week of Halloween (and the week before that, starting in the morning of the 21st,) we’ve been in t...

Honda didn't just unveil a slick-looking EV coupe concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. It also had a robot... though it's definitely not the kind of robot you'd expect from the company. Its RoboCas Concept is a super-cute ca...

Amazon has received licenses in at least a dozen states to function as a pharmaceutical wholesaler, according to a new report, fueling rumors that the company is looking to sell medication online. Recent reports claim th...

As Twitter and Facebook prepare to attend Senate hearings about Russian interference in the 2016 election, they're hit with yet more investigative queries. This time, the queries come from California Senator Dianne Feins...

A scheme to label Internet of Things devices that meet more stringent security standards has been proposed by the US Democrats, responding to mounting concerns about the safety of connected gadgets. The idea, dubbed the ...

Viacom hasn’t embraced the new world of online entertainment gracefully. The company pulled its channels from OTT services like PlayStation Vue last year, for example, and though some of its content can be streamed leg...

Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state. Someone tries a wild treatment, and boom, people are crying, the relative is a...

Minecraft players who love the upside down of Stranger Things have a new skin pack to acquire. It's available now in concert with the new season of the hit retro-horror show on Netflix. It looks like the whole cast is re...

The iPhone 8 saw slow sales, while iPhone X demand quickly outstripped supply.

Computer scientists have developed an artificially intelligent system that's an improvement over existing techniques used to crack CAPTCHAs, those super-annoying prompts that check to see whether you're a human or a bot....

YouTube riled its community when its effort to automatically demonetize offensive videos led to an "adpocalypse" that stripped innocent creators of revenue, and it's taking one of its first big steps toward making amends...

Walmart has a new robot that is helping do the hard work typically reserved for store employees. This robot is shaped something like a carpet cleaner with a tall tower on it, but it is designed to roll around shelves whi...

While autumn is usually the time we see a lot of game releases, we don’t usually get very many game reveals. Those are typically reserved for major trade shows like E3 or Gamescom that occur earlier in the year, but ne...

The Kinect is officially dead. But the reality is that Microsoft signed the do-all sensor's fate years ago. Faced with slumping hardware sales in 2014, then-new Xbox chief Phil Spencer had a decision to make. Either Micr...

Now that we’ve got our very own Xbox One X (Scorpio Edition), we’re unboxing it, piece by piece. But we’re not stopping there – no way! This isn’t the time to be playing games! Now’s the time to continue the ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey responded to the #WomenBoycotTwitter movement on his company's microblogging platform with a promise to help Twitter "take a more aggressive stance" toward hate speec...

On Thursday, the deadline for the federal government to publicly release all of its files relating to the JFK assassination arrived and, for a moment, it appeared that it would actually happen. But at the last minute, Pr...

If you didn’t get up at 12:01am PT today and start hammering the refresh button on the Apple Store or your carrier of choice, you probably didn’t secure an iPhone X for release day. As expected, pre-sales of the new ...