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For many, Google's Home Mini speaker has one key disadvantage over Amazon's Echo Dot: there's no line-out jack. If you want more powerful sound without buying a higher-priced model, you have to stream to a Chromecast-equ...

UTQIA VIK, ALASKA--On a crumbling heap of thousand-year-old garbage overlooking a leaden sea, Anne Jensen shakes her head disapprovingly. A gust of Arctic air whips her hair around her face as she scrutinizes the beige h...

Thanks in large part to the low-cost Echo Dot, Amazon grabbed an early lead in the smart speaker space. But this fall Google hit back hard with the Home Mini, which has become the best cheap smart speaker to buy for most...

You probably don't give it much thought, but your router is one of the most important gadgets in your home--without it there's no wi-fi for your laptops, your phones, and all the other web-connected devices you've got se...

Bed bugs--the blood-sucking, chitinous nightmares which serve as the clearest proof that if there is a divine creator behind the universe, it hates us--were once nearly eradicated from the U.S. But in recent years they'v...

There might be hope for Android Wear smartwatches yet. It hasn't been a year since Android Wear 2.0, based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat, came out (which should have actually rolled out late last year) and now a new major upda...

Australia's finally done it! A new NDEVR Environmental analysis shows Australia has never been emitting more greenhouse gas when unreliable estimates for land use-related emissions are excluded, the Guardian reported on ...

The FCC is scheduled to vote on its proposal to roll back net neutrality protections on December 14th and ahead of that vote, the FCC and FTC have released a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding each agency's role...

Today we’re hearing out a rather worrying vulnerability in a large range of HP notebooks. Apparently, these notebooks came with a deactivated keylogger installed, which is enough to give pretty much anyone pause. The g...

Google has taken the wraps off what it calls “appsperiments,” an awkward moniker for a trio of new experimental apps that all center around mobile photography. These apps were designed to help explore “the potentia...

Police in the Netherlands may have been a tad too hasty in testing a squadron of drone-catching eagles. NOS has learned that Dutch law enforcement officials are retiring the birds (they're going to new homes) and winding...

President Donald Trump has signed a directive that authorizes NASA to return American astronauts to the Moon--a mission that would lay the foundation for a possible mission to Mars. The renewed emphasis on space explorat...

It's not just video games -- virtual reality has lots of potential to change the way we experience information. You can experience what its like to walk in space with the BBC's ISS app for Oculus, watch every NBA game th...

It’s a big week for Xbox One owners. Tomorrow, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – one of the biggest game releases of the year – is coming to console by way of an Xbox One launch. Given the game’s meteoric rise on...

Netflix recently confirmed that it has ordered a third season of its hit original series Stranger Things. However, the announcement was very slim, merely confirming that season 3 will happen without any additional detail...

As video enthusiasts will tell you, just saying a display is capable of high dynamic range doesn't say much -- you need to know how well it handles HDR. And that's crucial for PC monitors, where the accuracy and intensit...

It was December 11, 1972, 45 years ago to the day. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just stepped out of the lunar lander. And thus began one of humanity's greatest road trips.

Android users were gifted a set of AR “stickers” today from Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Google. To attain these stickers, users had only to download the AR Stickers app if they’d not already done so, then open up ...

Imgur began as a way for Redditors to share images quickly and easily, but has grown into a pretty robust site and accompanying mobile app. Last week, the company announced two new features that should help you find more...

The acquisition could lay the groundwork for new music and AR features.

Less than two weeks after being named chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai said one of his priorities was to "make the agency's operation more transparent," beginning with a pilot program to releas...

Amazon has bestowed Alexa with new abilities, ones that surround its alarm functionality. Alexa can be used to set an alarm; that is nothing new. However, thanks to a new update, these users can now set Alexa to wake the...