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Solar power has been around for years, even decades, but it has never caught on in the consumer market for two reasons. One is affordability, the other is a lack of a bigger push. California might be providing the latter...

Officials in Florida believe that the death of a 38-year-old man in St. Petersburg on Saturday is linked to the explosion of a vape pen, the Miami Herald reported on Sunday.

This morning we’ve come into possession of a new bit of knowledge on the current state of Pokemon GO. Apparently people are looking for Ditto – or are STILL looking for Ditto since the first appearance of this blob-l...

No doubt you've gotten an automated phone call at one point in your life. But since 2015, reports of robocalls have increased at quite an alarming rate, with around 4.5 million robocall complaints filed in 2017, an incre...

Some have been prophesying the eventual death of rooting on Android. If true, it’s a very slow death. While it will probably never go away, development might soon be left to languish by the wayside. Especially when som...

Facebook may have succeeded in getting Cambridge Analytica to delete millions of users' data in January 2016, but the information based on that data appears to have survived for much longer. The Guardian has obtained lea...

WhatsApp seems to make headlines all for the wrong reasons. The most recent is its CEO’s departure over Facebook’s privacy policies. Before that, co-founder Brian Acton called for a Facebook boycott over its privacy ...

Elon Musk is apparently planning to purge Tesla factories of contractors in the strangest way possible. The company CEO is planning to cut off access to the company to any contractor who doesn't have a Tesla employee to ...

Texas is no stranger to self-driving car tests, but actual service? Not yet, although it's just around the corner. AI startup Drive.ai is launching the state's first autonomous ride-hailing service in Frisco this July in...

During a marathon presentation at the annual Build developers conference, Microsoft executives laid out their vision of a smarter, more responsive IoT-driven future. The company is leveraging AI to better serve those wit...

Google’s going to present themselves as a responsible force for good at Google IO 2018. They’ll be rolling with a message that centers on not just the responsible handling of data, but the measured, reasonable use of...

In March, a woman crossing the street on a bicycle in Tempe, Arizona was struck by an Uber that was testing its autonomous driving mode. The victim later died from her injuries. Since then, Uber has been studying what we...

The Kinect will never die. Microsoft debuted its motion-sensing camera on June 1st, 2009, showing off a handful of gimmicky applications for the Xbox 360; it promised easy, controller-free gaming for the whole family. Ba...

Once you've seen Avengers: Infinity War and processed your emotions, the questions begin to sink in. Did that really happen? What's next for them? And then you look at the bigger picture and think, what about next year?

The future of Amazon hit Transparent seemed murky after lead actor Jeffrey Tambor left the show amid sexual harassment and assault accusations laid against him. But fans of the show may be glad to hear there is a fifth (...

Volvo Cars announced today that some of its models will begin sharing real-time data with certain Volvo trucks. When drivers of Volvo cars with the Hazard Light Alert system switch on their hazard lights, an alert is sen...

Three hundred years ago today, La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded. The marvelous mélange heritage of New Orleans has given us not only incredible architecture, culture, and food, but also a fertile location for horror, fa...

Back when Fortnite season 4 was being teased, we though that Epic had decided on a superhero theme to take advantage of all of the hype surrounding Avengers: Infinity War. As it turns out, that was only half correct. Epi...

I thought I’d lost my mind when Android 8.1 was released for the Pixel XL (the first one) and charging stopped working. I mean, it’d work sometimes, but a lot of the time my phone would no longer charge. I’d plug i...

Android Things was first shown off back at Google I/O 2016, and now, two years later, Google's nebulous internet of things platform is finally getting an official release ahead of the 2018 edition of Google's annual deve...

Researchers with Stony Brook University have published a study with concerning implications for future manned lunar missions. Using simulated lunar soil, the team found that moon dust may be toxic to humans, particularly...

On Saturday, for the first time, a rocket blasted off from the US West Coast to fling its payload on an interplanetary trajectory. Despite being at Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars InSight's historic launch atop an Atl...