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Verizon paid billions last year for the privilege of ushering Yahoo's services into the great unknown and on Friday it announced that Yahoo Messenger will bite the dust on July 17. Yahoo's new messaging service, Squirrel...

If you have an iOS device, you'll soon be able to use graphics a lot more personalized than emoji when chatting with friends. For the first time ever, Friendmojis -- Bitmoji stickers that feature you and a friend -- will...

Dual-screen laptops might just be the next trend in consumer PCs, at least if ASUS, Lenovo, and Intel have their way. While smartphone makers are still stumped by the foldable display puzzle, laptop makers don't have tha...

Years ago, Facebook fired its Trending News team and replaced them with algorithms after a Gizmodo article featured former workers claiming the site discriminated against conservative news. Then, Facebook tried and faile...

One week after suffering a hack that took its website and services offline, events ticketing company Ticketfly revealed Thursday just how bad the data breach was, and it certainly doesn't look great. According to the com...

Contrary to Facebook's claims that it cut off developer access to its user data back in 2015, the Wall Street Journal has discovered that the company has allowed certain third party companies to retain the practice. Thes...

Quantum computing has made it to the United States Congress. If this field of quantum information is the new space race, the US doesn't want to fall behind.

Netflix has picked up Dolemite Is My Name, a biopic starring Eddie Murphy as as Rudy Ray Moore. Production for the film will start next week, according to a new report, though it isn’t clear when the content will premi...

Lyft might have thought its plan to buy bike-sharing company Motivate was a done deal. Uber, it seems, has other plans. Reports last week suggested that Lyft had struck a deal for upwards of $250 million to buy Motivate....

The 2020 Porsche Taycan will be the automaker’s first all-electric car, and it’s more than just a Tesla rival. Stage one of what will eventually be more than $7bn in investment into electrification and e-mobility by ...

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The Nixon Ridge Pipeline in West Virginia exploded spectacularly Thursday, creating a fireball visible for miles. While TransCanada is still investigating why exactly this brand new, "best-in-class" pipeline blew up, we ...

Behold Summit, a new supercomputer capable of making 200 million billion calculations per second. It marks the first time in five years that a machine from the United States has been ranked as the world's most powerful.

Weather watchers may be more preoccupied of late with storms popping off in the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific, but a very unusual cyclone also spun up over the Arctic this week--and it could spell more bad news ...

Making high-performance batteries for electric vehicles is a complicated, time-consuming process. So much so that engineers at Volkswagen have started using a quantum computer to simulate the chemical structures like lit...

During Computex 2018, Intel demonstrated a 5GHz 28-core processor for workstations, but it failed to mention one important thing: the processor was overclocked. The demonstration, to those watching, appeared to show the ...

A new blood test could flag pregnant women at risk of giving birth prematurely, giving healthcare providers a vital insight into potential risks to both parent and child. The new test relies on identifying chemicals in t...

Apple’s message at WWDC 2018 that we’re too attached to our iPhone seems, for a company the fortunes of which are so closely tied to its smartphone, a strange one. From iOS 12’s Screen Time tattling on the apps you...

One of the largest gaming trade shows of the year is nearly upon us. Though E3 2018 doesn’t officially kick off until Tuesday, June 12, most major publishers will host press conferences packed with their biggest announ...

SETI enthusiasts have devised all sorts of complicated ways for us to find signs of alien life, but a new paper suggests we may be overthinking it. Instead of looking for megastructures and spaceships, we should consider...

HBO has just given a pilot order to Jane Goldman's Game of Thrones spinoff, one of five potential follow up shows to the acclaimed series currently in the works--and with it, we have the first story details, revealing a ...

The Department of Energy pulled back the curtain on the world's most powerful supercomputer Friday. When Summit is operating at max capacity, it can run at 200 petaflops -- that's 200 quadrillion calculations per second....