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Pokemon GO was praised for its ability to get people out of the house and walking around, that highlighting the potential of such games for encouraging fitness among users. A new game called Run an Empire uses similar te...

This summer, NASA revealed that its Kepler spacecraft was very low on fuel, and as a result the space agency initiated a hibernation mode. That change in state was designed to conserve the remaining fuel in preparation f...

Last month, Gizmodo uncovered a disturbing scheme where Twitter spammers were apparently impersonating more than a dozen real women to sell diet pills. Now, it seems, the site is introducing new rules to help stop fake a...

Going wireless has been the mantra for quite some time now among device manufacturers, and it makes perfect sense. Wireless charging gets rid of having to tote around a pesky cable, while having a pair of wireless earpho...

Amazon and its subsidiary company IMDb are preparing to launch a free, ad-supported service for its Fire TV digital media player "similar to The Roku Channel or some parts of Hulu," CNBC reported on Monday, citing source...

It's almost the midterm elections in the US, and that means disinformation campaigns could be working overtime. Social networks have been introducing new features, rolling out changes and even asking the government for h...

The Seattle Police Department launched a program this week to let the public notify them they could be potential victims of a "swatting" hoax, according to Ars Technica.

You now have your chance to see just how well a New York City-backed mobile security app works in practice: the metropolis (and its tech partner Zimperium) has released NYC Secure for both Android and iOS. As promised, t...

The premise of Run an Empire is something familiar to fans of Civilization: take your society out of the mud and into the stars. But rather than leading your tribe from the comfort of your computer desk, you'll need to d...

Though the main draw of today’s Microsoft event is undoubtedly the new Surface products the company has on hand, hardware wasn’t the only topic of the day. Microsoft actually started its show by revealing that Window...

This afternoon we got the opportunity to get our hands on the newest version of the Microsoft Surface Pro. That’s the Microsoft Surface Pro 6, the 2018 edition of the tablet-with-kickstand. This is extremely similar to...

Microsoft just announced a whole lot of stuff at an event in New York, but it saved the weirdest for last. The company, best known for its software and nice computers, is now making headphones.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is finally testing the new U.S. "presidential alert" system after the initial test was delayed for nearly two weeks.

It can take many years to make a wild plant easy to farm, but gene editing could make that happen for one fruit in record time. Scientists have used genomics and CRISPR gene editing to develop a technique that could dome...

During a press event in New York today, Microsoft unveiled what it calls the “most powerful Surface ever.” The new Surface Studio 2 builds upon the company’s original Surface Studio model, bringing the same foundat...

While we expected the most of the hardware Microsoft announced today, the company still had a couple of surprises up its sleeve. The first was a follow-up to the Surface Studio, but the second was even more unexpected. A...

One of Microsoft's focal points at its Surface event Tuesday was on helping you move seamlessly between devices. As part of that effort, it's updating Microsoft Launcher on Android with some new features, including long-...

Microsoft's Surface devices tend to be costly, but the company might have a way of making them more palatable. It's launching a Surface All Access subscription model that finances your PC while throwing in some of the se...

Lots of the news from Microsoft's Surface event leaked ahead of time, but we didn't necessarily expect to see these new Surface Headphones today. As you might expect, the main draw here is that Cortana is on board and ea...

Never mind running mobile apps on a PC -- Microsoft wants you to see your phone's particular apps on a PC. At the company's Surface event, mobile general manager Shilpa Ranganathan previewed a Windows 10 feature that wou...

With the last Windows 10 release, in April, Microsoft introduced Timeline, a new way to keep track of what -- and when -- you're working on specific files and websites. Now the company its gearing up to bring the benefit...

Microsoft announced refreshes to three different computers today and its proof the company is committed to manufacturing computers, and not just to periodically releasing glitzy overpriced products to showcase Windows. W...