Gadget News

When news of major vulnerabilities impacting processors manufactured by Intel, AMD, and ARM broke this week, the Register warned that patches for the problems could slow processors down by up to 30 percent.

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released the final text of the order spelling the death of net neutrality in the United States.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, more commonly referred to as GIMPS (not to be mistaken with the image editing software), has announced the discovery of the largest known prime number. That number is a huge 2^77...

Next to humans themselves, passwords are the bane of digital security. Decades after they have been invented, humans still haven't learned their lesson, no matter how devastating some cases have been. Many still resort t...

Back in the spring of 2016, the BBC announced it would be axing various periphery websites and apps in an effort to save £15 million in upkeep costs. One of the items on the chopping block was recipe site BBC Food, the ...

The recently disclosed bugs that affect so many modern CPUs are an issue on Apple platforms as well, and tonight the company explained how it's dealing with them. In a new support page, Apple confirmed it has included "m...

The new year has just rolled out and HMD Global is starting it not with a bang but with a tiny pop. The high-end Nokia 9 is still nowhere in sight, but that doesn't mean its first 2018 smartphone is something to pan. The...

Ozone depletion is on the decline, according to NASA, which has announced that scientists have demonstrated a particular aspect of this via a satellite instrument for the first time. According to the instrument, which wa...

Security researchers revealed disastrous flaws in processors manufactured by Intel and other companies this week. The vulnerabilities, which were discovered by Google's Project Zero and nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre, ca...

Earlier today, Twitter published a five paragraph answer to the loudly, repeatedly-shouted question: "Why won't you ban Donald Trump, a man who has actively used your platform to threaten nuclear annihilation against an ...

A group of GTA Online players are all gathered together near an auto shop in downtown Los Santos. They're here for a car meet meant to show off fancy vehicles within the community. Suddenly, and without any warning, a gi...

The aim of soft robotics is to create machines that move more like humans--robots that can, say, sensitively grasp delicate objects without crushing them. Engineers have recently created an artificial muscle that can mim...

The ozone hole feels like the quintessential '80s problem, but unlike car phones and mullets, it remains relevant in a number of ways. For starters, it's still there, chilling over Antartica. More importantly, it's slowl...

Yesterday a cartoonist wrote a set of paragraphs about Donald Trump that were shared in a viral manner. The writing included news that Trump had requested a “Gorilla Channel” for his television on the first night he�...

Apple has been ordering original shows at a breakneck pace, and now it's branching out beyond big-name dramas. Deadline has learned that the tech giant has ordered a 10-episode documentary from Time Inc. and Matthew Weav...

Microsoft has introduced a new Xbox One controller, the Sea of Thieves Limited Edition. Channel your inner pirate with this model, which will be launching in the relatively near future. As the name suggests, the controll...

2017 was a pretty big year for Google from an IoT standpoint. Google Home came into its own as smart home hub, and Google Assistant saw rapid expansion to a bunch of new countries and devices. Today Google is recapping t...

Just one day after Ajit Pai's FCC released the text of its order to gut net neutrality, a lobbying group that represents the largest tech companies in the world has decided to take legal action. The Internet Association ...

Here's some good news, courtesy of the American Cancer Society's annual Facts & Figures report: Fewer Americans are getting and dying from cancer, at least as of 2015, continuing a long decline seen since the early 1990s...

Intel is already facing multiple lawsuits over the chip security flaws revealed earlier this week. Gizmodo reports that three have been filed so far -- in California, Oregon and Indiana. All three are class action compla...

The Tesla Model X is an impressive performance machine, one day embarrassing cars at the drag strip and the next helping to pull giant trucks trapped on just the slightest snowy incline.

Kopin has teamed with Pico Interactive to create “Eagle,” a mobile headset with a removable OLED display bar. This is a personal entertainment device, according to Kopin, which says Eagle has won the duo a CES 2018 I...