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Multiple United States Federal government agencies have seized the classifieds website Backpage.com. Anyone who attempts to visit the website will see an alert stating that the domain and its affiliated websites have bee...

The Department of Homeland Security announced a public bid for third party companies to build a "media influence database" capable of tracking more than 290,000 news sources across the globe. First spotted by Bloomberg L...

It's no secret that when it comes to voice assistants, Siri is often cited as one of the worst. Even though Apple introduced it years before Amazon and Google, their digital rivals -- Alexa and Google Assistant -- have s...

Yesterday, both Sears and Delta revealed that thousands of their customers may have had personal and financial information exposed. This was because the companies had entrusted data to the tech firm [24]7.ai, which itsel...

Exploring the limits of type design, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has developed Braille Neue, an attempt to combine Braille with the English and Japanese alphabets.

Spotify's announcing something on April 24th in New York, and we're not exactly sure what it is. We do, however, have a few ideas: recent developments suggest the company's going full speed ahead in its quest to replace ...

Days after Donald Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, allegedly warned Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt to knock it off with all these goddamn scandals, the Associated Press reports that the full bill fo...

The past few days haven't been great for the internet's broader security. Iran's Communication and Information Technology Ministry has reported that it was a victim in a global cyberattack that compromised about 200,000 ...

After months of harsh coverage of the malicious or inappropriate content that keeps popping up on YouTube Kids, ranging from videos of Peppa Pig drinking bleach to David Icke conspiracy rants, Google seems to have partia...

We all have weird dreams, but have you ever had a dream about a naked fella who's looking for a golden hot dog in a dreamlike world? Well then you might enjoy Hot Dog Dreamer.

In early April, California's new rules that allow automakers, tech giants and just about anybody to test fully driverless cars on its roads finally took effect. But before those companies can realize their ride-hailing r...

Action cameras are something that many of us are able to identify with. It not only helps us to capture whatever we see and wherever we go, it is also able to provide a far better narrative than our words alone. After al...

The mimic is a unique video game monster in the Dark Souls universe. These games reward players who pay attention and punish players who cavalierly make their way through the world. The mimic is the ultimate encapsulatio...

Whether you use them often or almost never, there’s no doubt that adding emoji to text is so much easier on a phone. It’s simple tap a button on the virtual keyboard, scroll to the one you want, and tap it to enter, ...

Pressure has been mounting on Facebook and its leadership to make big privacy changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal--in which it lost control over extensive data on what it now says are 87 million users-...

Marvel released a new TV spot for Infinity War today, and it packs in a ton of new footage to its short runtime.

How the government could fix Facebook Julia Angwin, The Atlantic There are a number of issues surrounding the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica saga. Perhaps the most prominent one is the question of whether or not the so...

The Apple Watch, specifically its heart rate sensor technology, is at the center of the latest lawsuit targeting the company. Omni MedSci, a tech startup focused on “near-infrared and mid-infrared broadband lasers,” ...

A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's unsettling, low-key horror film, has been one of 2018's best, creepiest surprises. But if things had shook out a little bit differently, it could've been a part of a major film franchise.

As our social networks continue to be dominated by algorithmically suggested content, YouTube has faced some serious criticism in recent months over aimed at children, especially within its own YouTube Kids app. To help ...

According to rumors currently gently rocking the sleepy, sleepy crib of the internet, the upcoming Deadpool 2 might have one less villain than we thought.

Final Fantasy XV has already seen plenty of post-launch DLC content, including a number story episodes and even a multiplayer mode. While this is much more than the average single-player RPG sees, developer Square Enix h...