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Ride-hailing giant Uber is planning to merge with its competition in the Middle East, though unlike prior deals in Southeast Asia, China, and Russia, it says it will remain in control of the merged entity.

Google Drive, the Internet giant’s cloud storage service, recently received an app update for Android. The update was a minor one in terms of changes, bringing only some bug fixes and a single new feature: support for ...

Scientists understand gravity pretty well when it comes to two objects, but add a third, and you've got chaos--a system that's impossible to explain with our simplest equations. But you also have a way to test the limits...

When I was a kid, I had a recurring nightmare in which I was being chased by a group of gigantic kangaroos hellbent on murdering me. For years, I couldn't understand where the dreams came from--until recently, when I off...

If the heat wave and the accompanying blanket of humidity have you feeling like the world is moving just a little slower than normal, well you'd be right--at least in when it comes to radio transmissions. Nasdaq warned c...

Broken promises aren't usually a good thing. Unless, of course, you're talking about OnePlus' confirmation that its OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T models would not be receiving support for Google's Project Treble -- an initiat...

You're doing the Fourth of July wrong if you're not spending it with lots of food, lots of fireworks, and lots of tiny flags. But if you'd rather just stare at your phone all day, director David Ma has combined all the r...

A newly published study details an experimental drug that may be able to stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease. The study, which was conducted by researchers with Johns Hopkins University, saw positive results in...

WhatsApp is promising to introduce new features intended to prevent the spread of hoax messages in India following reports that more than one dozen lynchings have occurred in the country as a result of false rumors sp

Baidu has started mass-producing its Level 4 autonomous mini-buses with the intention of deploying them not just in China, but also in other countries. Their first destination outside of China? Japan. The Chinese tech gi...

Jeb Corliss brought along a GoPro Fusion 360-degree camera during a ride on Six Flags Magic Mountain's Goliath roller coaster. But instead of using the footage to create an immersive VR experience, he instead turned it i...

When it comes to laptops, there are many different kinds of brands for us to choose from. While many of us would prefer to go for more notable and famous names such as Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, and high performance machines f...

Earlier this week, 12 Thai boys from a youth soccer team and their coach were discovered by diving experts trapped in an air pocket deep within a submerged cave system. Water levels within the cave complex aren't expecte...

A re-analysis of a three-million-year-old fossil suggests Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid, had children who were as capable on two feet as they were in the trees--an important discovery that's shedding new l...

Before Kanye slapped an iPhone shot of the Tetons on his new album, but after we ruined Niagara Falls, in part prompting the creation of an entire system of protected federal land, I spent a winter in Jackson, Wyoming wo...

While movie tie-in games generally have a disappointing history, there’s definitely been a certain amount of excitement for Jurassic World Evolution that defies its status as one. Why wouldn’t there be? The game was ...

The convenience of never having to recharge a manually-powered wheelchair is often outweighed by the fact that riders must use both arms to steer it. Carrying something like a smartphone at the same time is a big challen...

The era of space tourism is nearly upon us. With Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic each vying to be the first company to ferry clients on once-in-a-lifetime treks up to the edge of space and back. While SpaceX is t...

Inspired by bugs, Harvard's Ambulatory Microrobot, or HAMR, can run, climb, make sharp turns, and carry small payloads. In the latest upgrade to the system, HAMR has been endowed with the ability to swim, dive down from ...

It's no secret that Microsoft is working on a lower-priced Surface between leaks and FCC filings, but just what's going to power this 10-inch tablet? There might be a clue. WinFuture sources have claimed that the low-cos...

I love sunscreen. I wear it everyday--even in the winter, even when it's overcast. Applying sunscreen regularly is one of the few things you can do to directly prevent cancer (skin cancer is the most common form of cance...

Boy, is it hot? The gnarly heat wave we've been dealing with since last week isn't quite over yet--and it doesn't just cause us to sweat and complain. Events like these usually bring awful ozone pollution, too. And that'...