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Apple otherwise paints a picture of progress, but watchdogs don't always agree.

Back in January, experts revealed that China’s first space station, the Tiangong-1, would be reaching the end of its life likely in March of this year. China, which launched the space station in 2011, had lost control ...

In any of Earth's other parallel timelines, Nicolas King's parody of the Planet Earth documentary series, showing our planet overrun with migrating herds of Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robodogs, would be an amusing look at...

British Airways is expanding its biometric boarding gate tests in the US. Last November, it began testing self-service boarding gates in Los Angeles Airport that don't require customers to produce either their boarding p...

The FCC has issued a letter warning the US public about “neighbor spoofing” — that is, scammers who are calling people using numbers that appear to be local. This has become a big problem, according to the FCC, whi...

If you ask gamers and game developers what's the hottest title around these days, they'd most likely answer one of two titles: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale. They are the games that everyone wa...

Humans are no match for machines in many ways, and solving the Rubik’s cube is no exception. A bunch of people have dedicated huge amounts of effort into mastering the art of rapid Rubik’s cube solutions, but a machi...

Cryptocurrency enjoys massive popularity at the moment, and with that popularity comes many, many scammers. Facebook has already taken the drastic step of banning all crypto-related advertisements to tackle the issue, an...

Congress is set to finally do something that will benefit US consumers in response to the Equifax breach last year--beyond excoriating the company's executives on live television. Yet, as with everything, it will come at...

Netflix is currently testing a feature that lets kids collect "patches" for watching shows, Variety reports. Those included in the test see red locks on children's shows that can get them a patch, which they can then ear...

No matter which platform you choose, gaming can be an expensive hobby. The cost of getting a new console can be pretty significant, especially in the early part of the year when the holiday shopping season has ended. If ...

We have arrived in Austin, Texas for the 2018 edition of SXSW, the festival that showcases some of the best things in the tech (interactive), film and music industries. This year, we'll be taking a look at HBO's Westworl...

Weighted blankets can work wonders for your anxiety, or at the very least keep you warm and cozy all winter long, and you can score all-time low prices on both a 15 and 20 pound model today on Amazon. Not to stress you o...

Today Google Assistant Custom Device Actions were announced by the company as just the latest in a line of expansions to its voice assistant ecosystem. The newest additions come in the form of Custom Device Actions, and ...

There were rumors this week of a 50 percent reduction in Motorola's Chicago workforce and that the Moto Z line was finished. Given that we're still hearing about upcoming products for Moto Z phones like a VR headset Moto...

I hope you aren't making nuclear weapons in your garage. If you are, your bricks know what you're doing.

We are quickly closing in on the launch date for Sea of Thieves. Anticipation for this new title from Rare and Microsoft is high, thanks in part to the many beta tests Rare has been hosting to make sure Sea of Thieves is...

The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the planet, but major questions remain, including how quickly sea ice will retreat, and how much of Greenland's ice will slide into the sea, over the decades to co...

Sometimes the question, "Can I do this?," is far more interesting and exciting than asking, "Should I do this?" The RC hobbyists behind YouTube's FliteTest channel understand this truism, and wondered if they could get t...

Early this week, Trump at last announced that he would meet with leaders of the video game industry. Not to discuss the rising frustration with loot boxes, but to rehash the exhausted and research-debunked notion that pl...

Environments make species. This was the fundamental biology lesson that was drilled into Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos Islands back in 1835, a trip that ultimately inspired his theory of natural selection...

Perhaps the proposal to blow up an inbound asteroid using a nuke isn’t so bizarre after all. Researchers and agencies all over the world have spent years developing concepts for redirecting or destroying any asteroid t...