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The red iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are real and they’re coming on Friday. Of course, you can already pre-order one tomorrow. Naturally, retailers and carriers are also getting into the spirit and are putting up their o...

Cambridge Analytica is facing incredible pressure over the Facebook data sharing scandal -- and not surprisingly, it's determined to share its version of events before Mark Zuckerberg testifies in congressional hearings....

For one brave man, eating one of the hottest peppers in the world came with an unexpected side effect: Days of splitting headaches that prompted a trip to the emergency room.

Tyler Barris is being held by police on charges of involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly placed a phony emergency call that resulted in the death of another man. But Barris reportedly managed to get access to the i...

France can bring criminal charges against Uber executives for operating an illegal taxi service, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled. The decision stems from events in 2015, when France's governmen...

Passwords are pretty archaic. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of companies including Google, Apple, Facebook and others, no one has figured out a uniform standard that would make it possible to do away with them ...

Instagram's tendency to shadow Snapchat features now extends to the way you find new people to follow. The company has confirmed to TechCrunch that it's testing Nametags, a not-too-subtle riff on Snapcodes. As reader Gen...

OEMs naturally want their products to be repaired only by them or at the very least authorized service centers. This could be for various reasons ranging from quality assurance to IP protection to additional revenue. How...

Oregon has taken the latest step in its effort to maintain an open Internet. On Monday, Governor Kate Brown signed the state’s net neutrality bill, which passed the Oregon House in February and was sent to Brown in ear...

Google has once again revised the list of apps that aren’t allowed in its app store, this time adding ones that enable users to generate fake identification. These apps are usually billed as a way to create ID cards fo...

You might think you have gravity pretty well figured out. If you drop a ball out of a window, a short time later it will hit the ground. The higher up you drop it, the faster it travels before it hits the ground.

Sightings of a Google-branded 4K Android TV dongle have reignited speculation that the company will take on the Apple TV and Fire TV again. The horseshoe-shaped gadget was spotted passing through the FCC, complete with a...

Hulu has expanded device support for its new app, the one containing access to both its on-demand content and its live television channels. The app started arriving several months ago for other platforms and is now avail...

An outbreak of severe bleeding linked to tainted synthetic weed products continues to worsen. Illinois health officials reported this week that a third person has died soon after taking the drugs.

Spotify might have more to show at its April 24th event than you think. Bloomberg sources have asserted that Spotify is preparing a new version of its free offering that would make it easier to use, particularly on smart...

Google's Pixel 2 came out last October to fairly positive reviews, bringing a better camera and more powerful processor to the company's flagship hardware (though it did lose a headphone jack — thanks, Obama). Now, jus...

This man had a tiny second fingernail growing on top of the nail of his middle finger. It looks like a second finger.

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the $200 smartphone Honor 7x in my pocket. This smartphone’s surprised me – and not only because it’s rather feature-full for its price. This phone’s surprised me because ...

Today is Siblings Day, so it's time for approximately 80% of you to take a minute out to thank (or blame) your brother(s) and/or sister(s) for helping to make you the person you are today. What would Mario have been with...

Google's Chromecast devices are handy (and cheap) little dongles for anyone who wants to add streaming functionality to their TV. But since the Chromecast Ultra came out in the fall of 2016, there haven't been any new Go...

Airbus has announced a partnership with Zodiac Aerospace, a company that develops equipment and systems for aircraft cabins. Under the new deal, the duo will develop sleeping berths for passengers that enable them to com...

Twitter has officially announced its support for the Honest Ads Act a week after Facebook did the same via the latter's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Which is appropriate given the bill exists because election-influencing ads ran...