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Following the mass school shooting which killed 17 people and wounded over a dozen others in Parkland, Florida this month, YouTube launched a campaign to use some of its 10,000 new moderators to somewhat thin out the ran...

Genetically engineered crops hold promise for addressing world hunger, reducing the need for harmful pesticides, and more. Despite that, GMOs remain a popular — and controversial — topic in fringe and conspiracy comm...

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YouTube's crackdown on conspiracy theories in the wake of the Parkland mass shooting has had some unintended casualties. The streaming video firm has confirmed to Bloomberg that its human moderators inadvertently removed...

If you've ever taken an ancestry DNA test, you probably already know that the results aren't exactly precise. Sometimes you wind up with completely different results than you expected. And different brands of DNA tests c...

The early development of our universe is still quite a mystery, but in a new study published today in Nature, researchers describe what may be evidence of when the first stars began to form. After the Big Bang, which too...

The Canadian government unveiled its 2018 budget on Tuesday, committing nearly $4 billion (or over $3 million USD) to a range of science programs over the next several years. It's the single largest injection of cash for...

Mobile World Congress 2018 is wrapping up, and it’s time to count the stars of the cellularly-obsessed show. Familiar names find themselves joined by some unexpected additions this year, as the mobile industry attempts...

If you've been irritated by the increase of commercials into primetime programming, you're not alone. Now, NBCUniversal is doing something about it across its networks. The company is cutting back on primetime advertisin...

Rick Smith, the founder and CEO of Axon (formerly Taser), offered a bold new strategy for preventing school shootings on Thursday: approach the problem like a hackathon. In a letter to the President and an appearance on ...

BlackBerry fans in the US can now purchase the BlackBerry KEYone Black Edition variant from two major retailers, giving them access to the same model that started rolling out in other markets last year. We saw the KEYone...

In a highly coordinated effort, Robert Downey Jr and the Marvel Studios Twitter accounts announced a last-minute date switch for the next Avengers movie. Avengers: Infinity War will be released on April 27th, 2018, inste...

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The White House today said that President Donald Trump will meet with executives from the video game industry to talk about violent games, a reaction to last month's shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead.

The world's first Android Go phones debuted here at Mobile World Congress, and they just might change the way Android works for the developing world. We took some time to get acquainted with some of these new devices, bu...

When Apple introduced the iPhone, they rightly assumed that the next generation would be willing to carry their identity in their pocket. In the very near future, companies like Google and Amazon will profit from their a...

Did you like the idea of Facebook splitting your News Feed into two? No? You're not the only one. Facebook has ended its Explore Feed test after user surveys indicated it wasn't popular. Explore was supposed to help you ...

GMC put a tailgate in its new pickup’s tailgate, and if that doesn’t make the 2019 Sierra 1500 Denali sufficiently meta than we’re not sure what will. The completely revamped new truck is the fanciest of GMC’s pi...

Well-known leaker Evan Blass has given us a look at Huawei's upcoming P20 and P20 Lite smartphones, but now we appear to have access to some of the latter's specs thanks to Vodafone, which accidentally published them in ...

Weird Al will perform the Hamilton Polka with Lin-Manuel Miranda on Friday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. But just in case you don’t watch that show because it’s an absolute nightmare, the single will also b...

Well, if you're in the US, that is. Marvel Studios just made a surprise announcement that Avengers: Infinity War has moved its US release from May 4 to a worldwide release on April 27.

Amazon is planning to transform Alexa into a universal real-time language translator, according to sources with knowledge of the plans. Doing so would turn Alexa devices into multi-lingual assistants that aid users in co...