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Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week NVIDIA hosted its annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose and I attended the event to learn about what technologies and innovations the company was planning for 2018 and beyond. NVID...

There are few easier ways to get people to read your website than to scare them. That's how we ended up with the media frenzy surrounding Tiangong-1, and it's why InfoWars continues to exist. It's also how we've ended up...

Authorities have identified the suspect in the mass shooting at YouTube's headquarters, which ended in four injuries and the death of the shooter, as YouTuber Nasim Aghdam, who made videos about topics ranging from anima...

Microsoft got a huge lead in the augmented reality, or mixed reality rather, market, showing off how its HoloLens and Windows Holographic, now Windows Mixed Reality, system could prove to be more practical and useful tha...

Google is known, even notorious, for having so many overlapping projects and moonshots on its plate. Even while both Android and Chrome OS fight for consumers' affection (and wallets), it is believed to be working on a t...

Apple has released a handful of tutorial videos that show new iPad owners how to proficiently use their new tablet. This isn’t the first time Apple has released instructional videos; it did something similar for the iP...

Troubling news from the Bay Area. Kids there have evidently discovered that, if they combine themselves and hide in a trench coat, they can attempt to buy beer. Thankfully, a vigilant user of the hyperlocal social networ...

Every second counts when it comes to earthquake preparedness, but a few beta app users got more notice than others in today’s 5.3 magnitude Channel Islands quake. A new app, QuakeAlert, developed by Early Warning Labs,...

For the first time in about four years, Virgin Galactic has fired up the rocket motors in one of its spacecraft for a test flight. Unlike the last time in 2014, however, the test was a success and the VSS Unity managed t...

Earlier this year, Plex jumped into VR with a Google Daydream app that puts you and up to four of your buddies into a virtual movie screening room. Now the media server company is bringing Plex VR to two more platforms: ...

In a letter on Thursday, House Democrats urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take immediate steps to halt the suspected illegal use of phone-tracking devices widely known as "Stingrays."

Amazon has given the go-ahead to a four-part documentary series on Lorena Bobbitt, Variety reports. Bobbitt became a media focus in 1993 when she cut off her husband's penis while he slept -- which she later said she did...

In February, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Microsoft's case arguing that a domestic warrant does not necessarily have the power to compel it to turn over documents stored in overseas data centers. Now that a pi...

Patrick Donahoe worked with the United States Postal Service for a total of 39 years until his retirement in February of 2015, serving the final four-and-change years of his career as Postmaster General. He knows the age...

Klei's Don't Starve has been a hit ever since it came out for PC in 2013. It's since appeared on the PS4 (as well as the PS3 and Vita), iOS and Android, and continues to thrill with various DLC ("Reign of Giants") and sp...

DJI is about to release a firmware update for the Zenmuse X7 drone camera that adds support for the Apple ProRes RAW standard. The move helps position the Zenmuse camera as a serious option for filmmakers and other creat...

Stan Lee, the legendary comics figure who helped bring many of Marvel's most iconic characters to life, has been in the news lately for reasons beyond his comics legacy. Over the last month, several reports about Lee's p...

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The BBC admitted in a statement on Thursday that scenes from its 2011 documentary series, Human Planet, were staged by the doc's creators. An episode dedicated to the indigenous Korowai people of Papua, New Guinea featur...

It's been a tough week for exposing customer data, from the personal info of 150 million Under Armour users to financial data for 5 million Saks, Lord & Taylor customers. Even Panera left personal information for million...

Uber is still very much at odds with some cities over their attitudes toward ridesharing. The company is suspending UberX service in Athens, Greece from April 10th onward in the wake of newly-approved laws that limit how...