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He started working at Google in 2010 and announced his departure yesterday.

How do we find a tiny shred of self-understanding in this vast universe? More simply: how did we get here? A proper map could help us answer this question.

In Japan this week was a tip about Japanese exchange Monex moving to take over the exchange known as Coincheck. Said takeover would be a muilti-billion-Yen bid, and a big bump to public confidence in bitcoin and cryptocu...

Once upon a time, premium phones were often accompanied by smaller, less powerful, and less expensive “mini” or “lite” models. Those included the Xperia Compacts, Huawei P Lites, and Galaxy minis. Samsung used to...

The US Trade Representative has published the list of Chinese products that would be subject to its proposed tech tariffs, and there are a few clear themes. The move would hike the costs of about 1,300 products, includin...

Apple has managed to snag Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a fairly significant victory for a company that has lagged behind its rivals in ...

San Francisco and other cities around the US have been rolling out pedal-assisted e-bike sharing programs to help decrease street traffic and air pollution. Now New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio has directed his city'...

Facebook has spent the past few weeks on an apology tour amid the fallout of its Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal, in which the company lost control of extensive information on 50 million users harvested without ...

Since President Donald Trump's administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed. On Monday, that process began with an announcemen...

The fate of the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ isn’t as dire as previous reports have suggested, it seems, with talk of a new, more sporting upgrade in 2021. The car, which launched in the US as a collaboration between Toyot...

Most AI assistants can't really hold a conversation. They're fine with I-go-you-go dialogue, but most humans aren't quite so timid -- they know when to interrupt, and when to restart chat when there's an awkward pause. M...

If your wallet serves as more of a toolbox than a place to stash a few bucks, alongside a flat-pack knife and credit card-sized multi-tools, you can also slip in this super tiny, 3D-printed chess set. Compared to playing...

It's become a familiar story in the age of consumer DNA testing: A person spits into a test tube to learn more about their genetic heritage, and ends up finding out they have a parent or sibling they didn't know existed....

The White House might argue that its proposed tariffs on Chinese tech would punish the harvesting of American intellectual property while preserving the US economy, but don't tell that to the Consumer Technology Associat...

The Higgs Boson subatomic particle may yet be the end of all human life. Not necessarily because the scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider made a life-ending mistake smashing all the atoms – but because of an ou...

Netflix is still pursuing its next big animated hit, and so it’s no surprise the company is back with a new original cartoon targeted at adults. Called Paradise PD, the newly announced series will focus on a “wildly ...

Tinder is down, according to a number of users on Twitter who are unable to log into the dating app. Instead, they are stuck in a Facebook permissions loop. Trying times for the thirsty.

Facebook probably didn’t expect its privacy and API changes to impact peoples’ love lives today, but it has inadvertently taken Tinder offline in the process. The dating app uses Facebook to authenticate its users an...

Numerous cities display real-time bus arrivals on public screens, but New York City? Not so much -- you'll probably have to pull out your phone to know if you have a chance of making your ride. That shouldn't be a proble...

Sandia National Labs is involved in some pretty intense science. Researchers there mainly focus on developing and researching non-nuclear components for America's arsenal and have been, in some fashion, since Truman was ...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

Fans (and more than a few fan sites) have been so desperate for information about Solo: A Star Wars Story and that they've been reading clues into just about anything. But what if they're right?! This week marked the sta...