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The new gaming lineup consists of a 15-inch laptop and two powerful towers.

A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay out $502.6 million to VirtnetX Holding Corp., the kind of company often referred to as a patent troll, in the eighth year of contentious legal battles between the two comp...

The next type of vehicle to get electrified will be a three-wheeler, it seems. Campagna motors announced that it will unveil a 100 percent electric version of its T-Rex three-wheeler using a powertrain from Zero Motorcyc...

Many conspicuously gaming-oriented PCs are aimed at high-end buyers, the sort who won't flinch at splurging on top-end parts and extravagant RGB lighting. But that's not really how the gaming market works -- there are ma...

The uproar over in-game loot boxes is leading to some real financial penalties -- in South Korea. The country's Fair Trade Commission has fined Nexon, Netmarble and NextFloor a total of 1 billion won (about $945,200) for...

Football Manager, the simulator that's all about handling a professional soccer team, is on its way to the Nintendo Switch. Engadget has confirmed the news via a person familiar with the matter at Sega, the publisher and...

Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days, so naturally we want to throw it at all of our problems. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg's comment that Facebook won't have effective tools to filter hate speech for another...

A comprehensive report published this week in JAMA finds that the US has overall become a safer place to live over the past 25 years. But the report also reveals that in several states and among certain age groups, it's ...

Now that the Android-first Google Lens feature has finally rolled out to the Photos app on iOS devices, nearly all mobile users can appreciate a recently-added feature: Identifying pet breeds. Also, a new wrinkle added t...

A new monitoring device could help people discreetly measure their alcohol intake by transmitting alcohol levels to a connected cell phone. The tech, developed by engineers at the University of California, San Diego, is ...

Randomness rules the very fabric of reality. So it only makes sense that scientists have figured out how to use nature's randomness as a tool in our mundane world.

Tesla will start production for its Model Y crossover SUV next November, according to sources, who say production will take place at the company’s Fremont, California plant. The automaker has reportedly started taking ...

The pistol emoji has existed in one form or another since at least 2010, but in 2016 Apple shook shit up by replacing it with something completely different: a harmless, lime-green water gun. Today, about a year-and-a-ha...

Over the past two days, members of Congress have peppered Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with questions about how the platform manages users' privacy, what went wrong with Cambridge Analytica and what it's doing to strengt...

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Instagram will soon introduce a new data portability feature, which will let users download a copy of the photos and messages they've shared on the app. A spokesperson confirmed the forthcoming feature to TechCrunch on W...

Hidden Figures did a lot to highlight the unheralded black female mathematicians who played a key role in the early NASA space program, and it proved a commercial success to boot. So much of a success, in fact, that it c...

Instagram is currently developing a tool that will enable users to download their account data, a feature that’ll mirror the similar “Download your info” tool available on Facebook. The downloadable data will inclu...

This afternoon the folks at NASA revealed a radical new video touring the moon in 4K resolution. This video was made using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It’s a very, very large video, and you...

30.3 million Americans have diabetes according to a 2015 CDC study. An additional 84.1 million have prediabetes, which often leads to the full disease within five years. It's important to detect diabetes early to avoid h...

We at Earther are having some disagreements about whether to label this turtle emo, punk, or metal. What none of us can dispute, however, is that it's endangered.

Today, perhaps prompted by ongoing concerns about data privacy online, Valve announced a new privacy update for Steam. This update is a fairly far-reaching one that aims to give users more control over their profiles. As...