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Apple has made it no secret that it wants the Apple Watch to be the health wearable you'd ever want (and, in consequence, require you to purchase an iPhone to go along with it. But while the new ECG heart monitoring is d...

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Filmmakers love to explore memory problems--in the form of amnesia, dementia, manipulation, conflicting recollections of the past, you name it. And this thematic fascination isn't limited to any one movie genre; it's the...

You might think of black holes as enormous vacuum cleaners, sucking in all the matter and light that ventures too close. But confusingly, scientists normally see stuff leaving the area around a black hole, via jets of ma...

Astute listeners know that you can't gauge a song's mood solely through the instrumentation or the lyrics, but that's often what AI has been asked to do -- and that's not much help if you're trying to sift through millio...

The tech and science world has had a very interesting week: Researchers have discovered what happens when you give our favorite tentacled, ocean-dwelling friends MDMA, landed rovers on asteroids, confirmed the oldest kno...

Toyota is finally adding Android Auto support to its dashboards, with sources claiming a deal has been struck between Google and the Japanese automaker. The car company has been one of the more resistant firms to the ide...

Fast-food chain Wendy's is facing down a lawsuit in Illinois over its use of fingerprint scanners to track employees at work in retail locations, according to court documents obtained by ZDNet.

Netflix has certainly touted its Halloween shows before, but this year you may have a particularly good reason to pay attention. The streaming giant has outlined all the horror movies and thrillers you can expect to see ...

It's been a few weeks since Apple announced that macOS Mojave would launch today -- in that time, many app developers have been at work getting their creations ready for the new OS. Probably one of the changes Mac users ...

NASA’s mission to measure the impact of climate change and other factors on melting polar ice caps is off to a good start, with ICESat-2 set to use lasers to track just how precarious the situation is. ICESat-2 – or ...

When Apple announced the iPhone XS Max, there was a lot of simulated pearl-clutching from tech sites (including us), as people feigned shock and disbelief that Apple would make a handset that big, despite the XS Max's sc...

This week the folks at Huawei had a bit of a release-level leak with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. This smartphone is unique in several ways, including in its back-facing camera array. Instead of having cameras all in a line o...

If you're a fan of Alto's Adventure, you might be pleased to know you can at long last play the revered endless runner on Mac. It's available on the redesigned Mac App Store for $10. Alto's Adventure debuted on iOS in 20...

Bigger is apparently better, with the iPhone XS Max outselling the iPhone XS handily over Apple’s launch weekend according to one analyst’s numbers. Curiosity had been high as to which would be the more successful iP...

Last week, Epic announced the start date for Fortnite‘s 6th season, and when it did, we speculated that it would soon begin publishing teasers for the new season. Sure enough, today the teases began, giving us a glimps...

The discovery of a 127-million-year-old fossil in northeastern China is filling an important evolutionary gap between modern birds and the winged, dinosaur-like creatures that came before them.

Earlier this year, the Match Group, which owns the dating service Tinder, filed a lawsuit against rival Bumble, alleging that the company had infringed on patents and misused intellectual property. Just weeks later, Bumb...

A huge Airbus A350-900ULR is being delivered to Singapore Airlines today where, once in service, it will make the longest continuous flight in the world, from Singapore to Newark airport--a flying time of just under 19 h...

Slack has acquired email app company Astro and it will be using the company's expertise to better incorporate email into Slack channels. The company said that with over 50 million channels created to date, they're increa...

Google’s next step after Google Feed is “Google Discover” and it’s all about News. Google’s describing it a bit differently – they’re offering this system up as a set of changes in the way they think about ...

One of the few bastions of purity left in this forsaken world--puppies--might be inadvertently spreading a bacterial superbug that causes diarrhea. Last week, the Centers for Disease and Prevention reported that an outbr...