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Escaping the isolated and oppressive regime of Kim Jong Un's North Korea requires a harrowing effort, but even getting out of the country may not be enough to escape its reach. New research from McAfee suggests hackers i...

Voters in California's 1st congressional district tuned in Thursday night to a live stream of a political forum intended to highlight two candidates running for office. What they got instead was a brief clip of gay porn,...

Flowers from Nicotiana alata, a tobacco plant, may hold the key to dealing with drug-resistant bacteria known as “superbugs.” The discovery was made by researchers with La Trobe University, where they found that the ...

At the age of 34, American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Steve Brusatte has already accomplished more in his field than some scientists hope to over their entire careers.

One of the most promising features of recent PCs running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors is Microsoft’s “Always Connected” Windows experience. That is, as long as a data connection is available. That’s abou...

Tidal, the streaming music service that seems to have been doomed since launch, is investigating a possible data breach following allegations that the company has been artificially inflating its subscribers and streaming...

Passengers on Boeing's new line of 777 planes might not have to take a bus from the gate across the tarmac, despite much larger wings potentially making it difficult for the aircraft to navigate terminals. That's because...

Nearly two dozen people were injured in an explosion and resulting fire that occurred at a chemical plant near Houston, Texas Saturday morning, according to KHOU-TV.

Samsung has been teasing its upgraded Bixby 2.0 assistant for several months now, but when is it actually going to show up in something you can buy? It shouldn't take too much longer. The company's AI research center hea...

Deutsche Telekom--a multi-billion telecommunications company that owns T-Mobile, another multi-billion telecommunications company--is getting ready to throw its weight around in order to prevent a small business in Engla...

Apple has begun removing applications that use the CallKit framework from the Chinese version of its App Store after the nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology moved to more strictly enforce recent cybe...

TESS, NASA's new exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, has captured its first image ever, giving us a glimpse of what its powerful "eyes" can see. The spacecraft's science team used one of its four cameras to snap a two-second t...

Optoma does roll out pretty decent headphones to begin with, but they are also equally adept when it comes to delivering quality video products as seen in the availability of its latest Optoma UHD51A projector. The Optom...

Reading Time: 1 minuteThis week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell discussing HP’s new PCs, the WiFi Mesh standard, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and the outlook for autonomous cars. I...

It can be difficult to figure out what to do with your old electronics when you're ready to move on from them, but here is one thing you should definitely not do: throw them in the trash. Discarded devices powered by lit...

Every science fiction franchise has its own jargon. If you're not heavily involved in that world, you can forget how weird that jargon might sound to outsiders. Case in point: "droid."

At Google I/O earlier this month, CEO Sundar Pichai showcased an experimental Google Assistant feature called Duplex which can make routine phone calls on your behalf. In one striking demo, the digital assistant called a...

OneSpace Technologies conducted the first private rocket launch in Chinese history this week, firing off the 30-foot (9 meter) OS-X from a platform in northwest China on Thursday, according to CNN.

What happened to Facebook's grand plan to wire the world? Jessi Hempel, Wired For years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted the company's Internet.org initiative that sought to bring connectivity to everyone in the worl...

There’s long been a market for gaming-focused PC monitors, with 4K models being the standard for some time now. But Acer’s Predator line is here with a new flagship display that raises the bar: the X27 is the first g...

This week saw the announcement of two new services from Google: YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, with the latter replacing YouTube Red. YouTube Music is the company’s latest attempt at a full-fledged streaming music ...

How much laptop does a college freshman need? What's the quickest way to learn Photoshop? Is it worth having a TV in my dorm room? Ask Engadget gets a lot of emails -- and more than a few of them are questions about prod...