Gadget News

NASA recently funded a new potential future way to explore the Red Planet: Marsbee, an insect-like flying robot that could operate in swarms with a rover serving as a base station. Marsbees are described as about the siz...

The Samsung Odyssey Z -- not to be confused with the Magnavox Odyssey or Samsung's VR headset -- is the electronics juggernaut's latest gaming laptop. Once you open the lid, you'll see just how far that design ethos goes...

Intel announced a new batch of 8th-generation Core CPUs for laptops today, with the star of the show being the new Core i9-8950HK. This CPU is notable for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the biggest is the fact that this i...

Samsung is notorious for its slow and sometimes even non-existent update. But it seems that at least with the Galaxy S6 brood, the OEM did well by its customers. Although it's definitely sad news to hear that the Galaxy ...

The Tor team unveiled its Messenger app in 2015 to boost the security of existing chat clients, but those plans are coming to an end less than three years later. The developers are ending support for Tor Messenger due pr...

Environmental Protection Agency chief and climate skeptic Scott Pruitt, who just months ago was widely rumored to be under consideration for a shift to the completely different role of attorney general, has seen his pala...

Add another big-name brand to the list of those who've left customer data exposed online. Thanks to security researcher Dylan Houlihan, KrebsOnSecurity has discovered that Panera Bread left millions of customer sign-up r...

Recent Facebook controversy prompted many users to download their data from the social network, and some of them discovered an unexpected surprise: the data contains videos the users created but never saved. It seems the...

Sohrab "Sam" Sharma and Robert Farkas were the operators of an initial coin offering that--according to a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint filed today in the District Court of Southern New York--fleeced inves...

Birds probably know quantum physics better than many humans--it just comes to them innately.

You don't have to hate Donald Trump to know that he's a liar. His latest series of tweets about Amazon swindling "the United States Post Office" is particularly deceptive. You can tell, because his latest tweet starts wi...

Extraterrestrial life could be closer than we think, flourishing in the clouds around Venus, though think along the lines of microbes rather than little green men. The possibility of Venus’ clouds being habitable was f...

Researchers have discovered a cache of massive dinosaur footprints in Scotland, ones that date back to the Mid-Jurassic period. About 50 footprints in total were found, each helping reveal information about that time per...

Throughout investigations into Russia-backed efforts to sow political discord in the US during the last presidential election, US officials have said that the Internet Research Agency (IRA) played a major role. Last mont...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged for the first time that cellphone surveillance equipment may have been deployed in the nation's capital by foreign actors seeking to track cellphone and poten...

As Spotify goes public, it's only natural that competing services might want to tout their own success stories in the streaming business. According to Billboard, Amazon Music reports "tens of millions" of paid customers ...

This week we’re getting an idea of what it’ll be like to travel at supersonic speeds thanks to NASA’s newest initiative. They’ve awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to create the next X-plane. This ...

Google continues to try to keep its browser running smoothly in spite of others' efforts.

Police have been responding to an active shooter at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, it’s been confirmed this afternoon. News of the incident began on social media, with YouTube employees posting on T...

Facebook and Twitter are plenty aware that Russian-backed actors have been using troll accounts to manipulate online discourse. Despite introducing transparency tools and purging lists of bots, California lawmakers don't...

In the fallout to Facebook's hot mess regarding data sharing with Cambridge Analytica, there have been calls by a lot of people including Elon Musk, WhatsApp co-found Brian Acton and others to #DeleteFacebook. But for so...

Proving it's the most versatile and useful tool in your kitchen, not only can you turn aluminum foil into a razor-sharp knife, but if you've got access to a giant hydraulic press, you can also smoosh it into the shape of...