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Sometimes winning a court case isn’t a complete victory, especially if the case wasn’t dismissed outright. At the very least, it could set a legal precedent for more of the same cases. Naturally, the chances of that ...

In 2018, nearly everything is in place for a descent into a Ready Player One-style dystopia. The way things are going, we should be destitute and beaten down by climate change long before the 2040s. All we're missing, fo...

Thousands of apps may be tracking the online activity of children in ways that violate US privacy laws, according to a recent survey of Android apps available on the Google Play store.

Dr. Dirk Wisselmann, senior expert for autonomous driving at BMW, tells me that the automaker's first level 3 car will have the technical capabilities for level 4 or 5 highway driving. "We can create a software update (f...

Zillow is no longer just a real estate marketplace that can help find your next home -- the company has decided to become an active participant in the field. In an announcement today, Zillow has revealed that it'll flip ...

Just like with fake news, Facebook’s actions, or inactions, are sending ripples throughout the tech industry. Data privacy has become a hot topic again and people are putting more and more services under a microscope. ...

It can a long time to animate cartoons -- just ask the Rick and Morty team. But what if you could ask computers to do some of the lifting? They just might. Researchers have produced an AI system, Craft, that automaticall...

Laptops are made for typing and Chromebooks are really no different, be it traditional, convertible, or even detachable. But typing on the go doesn’t always happen in the most favorable conditions and you might find yo...

Last year's ill-fated Fyre Festival (almost) took place in the Bahamas; it also ended up with seven fraud and negligence class-action lawsuits. Co-founder Billy McFarland (above), who co-created the festival with rapper ...

TaskRabbit, the mobile marketplace that matches freelance labor with local demand, has apparently been hacked.

A wide variety of smartphones have the ability to control your television – or almost any other TV you can see. Since the dawn of the mobile smart device, we’ve been looking for ways to turn it into things we had in ...

In September, following a Verge report detailing scams conducted through misleading drug and alcohol treatment advertising on Google, the company began pulling addiction treatment-related ads in the US. In January, Googl...

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could at least somewhat clarify Donald Trump's complaints about Amazon "not paying internet taxes." It will also decide if those cheap deals on NewEgg a...

The city of Austin, Texas, is testing blockchain technology as a potential solution to homeless identification problems. Though blockchain is best known in association with cryptocurrency, we’ve seen various companies ...

Toyota's first vehicles that communicate with each other will be up for sale in the US starting in 2021. By the mid-2020s, "most" of Toyota and Lexus' lineup will feature Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) the c...

Netflix's first quarterly report for the 2018 financial year shows that after notching its most subscriber additions in Q4 2017 (8.33 million) it barely slowed down. Over the last three months, it added another 7.4 milli...

As part of Google's focus on supporting digital literacy and STEM advocacy, the company has launched Maharat min Google ("Building Capabilities with Google"). This program is aimed at helping women and young people in th...

Rick and Morty's interdimensional travels have taken them to worlds of pizza, hamster butts, and anthropomorphized corn. But now they're about to see something truly shocking: the Land of Ponies.

The war between Apple Music and Spotify is clearly heating up. Variety has discovered that Spotify recently poached Carl Chery, Apple Music's Head of Artist Curation for hip-hop and R&B programming. It's not certain when...

The team behind Wyze Cam is back with an updated version of their inexpensive home security camera, and it’s simply called Wyze Cam v2. This updated model has the same $19.99 price as the original despite the hardware ...

T-Mobile has agreed to pay (PDF) the FCC $40 million for failing to fix ongoing call failures for rural customers. The carrier previously claimed that it had resolved the problem, but the Commission kept getting complain...

There’s no lack of historic locations to visit on out fair planet, but most of them are constantly under threat of disappearing. Whether due to disasters, war, or the eventual killer of all things, time, many of the am...