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Perfumers look out: IBM Research partnered up with one of the top producers of flavors and fragrances, Symrise, to create an perfume-concocting AI. Named Philyra, after the Greed goddess of fragrance, it uses machine lea...

You may know Just (formerly Hampton Creek) for its vegan cookie dough and mayo, but the company has also been working on cultured meat -- real meat that's made from animal cells rather than taken from an animal itself. W...

That people would generally prefer to minimize casualties in a hypothetical autonomous car crash has been found to be true in past research, but what happens when people are presented with more complex scenarios? And wha...

The last time we trekked to an Apple event, the company showed off three new phones that everyone saw coming a mile away. That's not to say the XR, XS and XS Max were in any way lacking; it's just that the leaks told us ...

Like it or not, Marques Brownlee has one whole heck of a lot of eyes and ears on him, and when he’s got an issue with a phone, brands pay attention. This week Brownlee (aka MKBHD) posted a Tweet on Twitter about his Go...

A month after Apple revealed a new smartwatch and a new iPhone lineup that finally does away with the home button once and for all, the company will hold a follow-up event next week that's tag-lined, "There's more in the...

Donald Trump has never been a person who comes to mind when one thinks "cybersecurity"--he may not even know how to use a computer--but even by that low bar, the president and his administration have barely been able to ...

Arlo has updated its Arlo Smart security subscription, adding new package, vehicle, and pet detection options. All three features are listed as “coming soon,” offering Arlo camera owners new ways to keep tabs on thei...

The active ingredient that makes magic mushrooms so magic--the psychedelic drug psilocybin--is one step closer to becoming a legal treatment for difficult cases of depression. This week, the company Compass Pathways anno...

Toronto's Pearson Airport has an important message for would-be stem-pickers: The weed there is not up for grabs.

Ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook and other platforms were used by foreign groups to stoke political tensions in the country. And in order to deter a repeat of that situation, Facebook has implemented ...

Earlier today, a report from the New York Times described in excruciating detail the latitude given to one of Google's former golden boys, Andy Rubin, better known as the "father of Android," after an investigation into ...

Among the measures Facebook brought in to respond to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election on the platform was increased transparency around political ads bought on the platform, including making all political ...

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Amazon has been pretty busy the past few months, unleashing a slew of new hardware just in time for the holiday season. Several of those products haven't made it to market quite just yet, but that hasn't stopped the comp...

Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum today that described his administration's push for a national spectrum strategy, one that it says should help promote spectrum access and efficiency. In his memo, the preside...

Roku devices got support for Spotify years ago, but lost it in 2017 due to technical issues. That’s about to change, though, as Roku pushes out Roku OS 9, which will include Spotify support, according to the release no...

Nike introduced its shoe-selling app SNKRS in 2016, but it wasn't until nearly a year later that it rolled out an Android version. Even today, some of the app's best features (like a way to buy sneakers using augmented r...

Despite drops in active users, Snap has managed to turn a profit this quarter and even broke its revenue records. According to the company's third quarter results, Snap managed to increase its revenue by 43 percent from ...

We're up to our necks in earnings this week, and Google's parent Alphabet is among the latest to drop its quarterly financials. According to the company's release, Alphabet raked in a total of $33.7 billion in total reve...

As it does every Thursday, Nintendo has detailed the games landing on the eShop over the course of the next week. While previous weeks have been pretty packed in terms of releases, this one is a little more tame. Still, ...

Scientists have discovered a new crocodile species, one that has soft skin and is, unfortunately, very endangered. Called the Central African slender-snouted crocodile, this new species wasn’t exactly unknown, only mis...