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The Internet Archive has been gifted $1 million in bitcoins as a donation to help fund the organization. The donation was given by an unnamed philanthropist via the Pineapple Fund, which has given money in the form of bi...

The idea behind 2010's 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) is to make sure that federal accessibility laws created in the '80s and '90s were updated to include new digital and communications te...

While the American Girl brand is well-known for teaching the past through dolls with fictional ties to important events, its latest aims to inspire youths to make history themselves. On the first day of 2018, the next Am...

Android Parallel Tasks makes Android apps work more like regular PC programs.

Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new laptop seemed much more sluggish than an old tower PC you once had? Dan Luu, a computer engineer who has p...

Two patent applications published today by the US Patent and Trademark Office give us a peek into what kind of mobile device charging options Apple may be giving us in the future. As VentureBeat reports, the two applicat...

It wasn't meant to last. It was probably never meant to be there in the first place. Fact is, we'll never know of if the super hidden "Golf" emulation in the Nintendo Switch was something Nintendo planned on as an Easter...

If you are in the market for a hybrid SUV, you might want to wait until the 2018 Lexus RX Hybrid lands. Word is that some documents have surfaced showing a massive price cut for the 2018-year model. That base price is ti...

Amazon and Apple are both in talks to expand their presence in Saudi Arabia, according to sources, potentially marking the first time both will have a direct presence in the country. Details are fuzzy at this time, thoug...

North Korea has made the surprising decision to launch WiFi service at its main airport, marking a big change for the tiny nation. The introduction of a public WiFi network is surprising, but the related restrictions are...

Slow waves meander westward out in the deep ocean south of Australia. Sometimes they carry with them carry large eddies, whirlpools over 100 miles across. But every so often, these whirlpools combine into double whirlpoo...

The smallest pieces of the universe are governed by a beautiful and mind-blowing set of rules: the "Standard Model." The Standard Model explains the behavior of all 17 discovered particles, and it continues to make predi...

The parts that’ll make the Samsung Galaxy S9 were named by a number of South Korean sources this afternoon. It would appear that January production of both the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are both on schedule,...

'Tis the season for ominous, intrusive internet promotional campaigns. Netflix has spooked users on a Turkish equivalent to Reddit, Ekşi Sözlük, by sending them promotional direct messages meant to hype up the debut o...

Kroger plans to expand use of technology that enables customers to scan products as they’re put into the shopping cart, eliminating the need to stand in traditional checkout lines. Though the Scan, Bag, Go system isn�...

The landscape for smartphone chip-makers like Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung may be growing, but none can rest on its laurels as the industry tries to keep up with new trends like AI. SoC (System-on-Chip) design being incr...

Since time immemorial, humans have had a knack for being complete and utter dicks to the other animals we share our planet with. Often, we even manage to screw things up for other species without meaning to. A study publ...

Today the cryptocoin Ripple caught the news draft and blew Bitcoin right out of the water. Bitcoin prices are still well and away higher than Ripple, of course, but catching up to Ethereum – and surpassing Ethereum –...

Everybody poops. I don't care how rarely you hydrate. You poop. It is a fundamental aspect of human biology. And since the aliens we've seen in the Arrowverse seem to consume matter, we can assume they poop too. In fact,...

Being just a few days away from the beginning of 2018, it’s time to look back on 2017 and reflect on what’s happened throughout the year. Google is doing just that today, sharing the top 10 searches for a bunch of di...

Online dating is largely a succession of misery and humiliation, which is why so many of us are willing to pay an algorithm to find us the perfect match. The newest entré to the arena of apps that promise to help you fi...

FirstNet, the nationwide broadband network for first responders, will be the official public safety network for all 50 US states. The network has been a very long time coming. Having been initially proposed following the...