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Mayfield Robotics, the startup developing the companion ‘bot Kuri, has halted operations, another fatality in the tough home robotics space. The company, part of the Bosch Startup Platform, announced the news today, al...

Firefox is the latest browser to address autoplaying videos with sound, one of the most annoying parts of visiting certain websites. Chrome already makes it possible to block these autoplaying, noisy videos, and now Fire...

Facebook's week has taken another turn for the worse. The social network's general counsel Colin Stretch has announced he's leaving the company by year's end, according to The Wall Street Journal. Stretch testified durin...

In what appears to be a sweeping new campaign to enforce its policy prohibiting impersonation, Twitter now auto-locks any non-verified account that attempts to change its display name to "Elon Musk." But the Tesla founde...

If you're in the northern hemisphere then summer is already underway, which means your various gadgets and gizmos are going to be lying on beach towels, sitting in hot cars, sweating on the subway and generally getting h...

With the Google Next 2018 conference -- the I/O for cloud computing -- now underway in San Francisco, the company spent some time Tuesday morning crowing over its most recent cloud-based accomplishments and explaining wh...

Facebook's departing chief information security officer Alex Stamos, whose upcoming exit has been known for months, wrote a note to staff in March amid the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal urging them to reconsid...

Most bugs are annoying, but occasionally one appears that is great…for the person who discovers it, that is. Such is the case with a new issue involving Fortnite‘s Slurp Juice, one of multiple shield drinks that can ...

Samsung is developing a new GPU for its future smartphones and tablets, according to a new leak. This GPU is said to feature a “novel architecture” that makes it suitable for both future Galaxy smartphones and other ...

Coinbase announced today that it has teamed up with WeGift and customers in Europe and Australia will now be able to convert their cryptocurrency into e-gift cards. Gift cards are available for companies like Nike, Uber,...

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation had a tangible impact on Facebook's user base -- if only just. While discussing its second quarter earnings, the social network revealed that it lost about 1 millio...

As the App Store turns 10 this month, it's fascinating to see how it all began. While it may seem obvious that most people have a small rectangle of glass and metal that they spend a ton of time staring at now, it wasn't...

Are you always careful to apply sunscreen before a day outdoors, but find yourself getting burned anyway? It might be due to your application technique. Dermatologists say that most people don't put on a thick enough lay...

Qualcomm has been trying to buy giant chip maker NXP for the better part of two years. All that patience might not have paid off, however. Qualcomm is planning to drop its bid for NXP by the end of July 25th (that's toda...

As companies race to employ facial recognition everywhere from major league ballparks to your local school and summer camp, we face tough questions about the technology's potential to intensify racial bias; Commercial fa...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

Yesterday, No Man’s Sky received a massive update that made a lot of sweeping changes to the game. The biggest addition is unquestionably that of true-to-form multiplayer, which players have been waiting for since day ...

Google really, really wants you to use physical security keys to protect yourself from hackers. After announcing that its 85,000 employees have managed to go more than a year without getting phished because of mandated s...

It's no secret that 2018 has been quite a rocky year for Facebook, after controversies over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal and, most recently, its handling of fake news on the platform. But, despite these t...

Amazon has started offering financing for certain gaming PCs and PC parts, enabling buyers to pay them off over several months without interest. Device financing isn’t entirely new at Amazon — it already offers finan...

Amazon's Echo lineup, like some smart speakers, uses proximity detection to decide which device is best-suited to responding to your voice commands. It's a clever way to prevent multiple devices from waking up at the sam...

Yesterday, Google shared a rather surprisingly statistic when it claimed that none of its 85,000 employees have had their work accounts compromised since early 2017. Those are some secure accounts, especially when you co...