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The New York Police Department will begin using drones in certain situations where it believes the technology would be beneficial. These law enforcement scenarios include hostage situations, large gatherings where securi...

With Tumblr's decision this week to ban porn on its platform, everyone's getting a firsthand look at how bad automated content filters are at the moment. Lawmakers in the European Union want a similar system to filter co...

Artificial intelligence in its current form is mostly harmless, but that's not going to last. Machines are getting smarter and more capable by the minute, leading to concerns that AI will eventually match, and then excee...

SimpliSafe's Video Doorbell Pro offers a great picture and motion sensing but it won't play well with Amazon or Google smart homes.

Google Chrome has long displaced Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the most used web browser, be it on desktop or mobile. But just like Explorer, its size and popularity also make it the perfect unwitting accomplice in ru...

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has mostly been in the news as of late for his legal work for Donald Trump amid the ever-spiraling federal investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections. N...

Like it or not, facial recognition is creeping into more public spaces. The US Secret Service has quietly started testing the technology in and around the White House grounds, including nearby parks and streets, to see i...

Facebook has announced that its Stories feature is now available to all Groups on its platform across the globe. The new availability is an expansion of the support Facebook launched in a limited fashion earlier this yea...

The New York Police Department has acquired an arsenal of 14 drones to help monitor the city.

The world's oldest wild bird, Wisdom the Laysan albatross, has once again returned to her breeding grounds, and she has laid another egg. She is at least 68 years old, but doesn't look a day over 6.

Those of you looking forward to the completion of Epic’s Unreal Tournament might want to temper your expectations. Epic has confirmed that the new Unreal Tournament isn’t in active developement, but that much was alr...

In 2005, Doctor Who launched a tradition that would last another 12 years with "The Christmas Invasion"--a festive special that broadcast on Christmas day. But "Invasion" wasn't actually the first Doctor Who episode to a...

Archaeologists in London, England have uncovered a dramatic 500-year-old male skeleton lying face-down in the mud of the River Thames. Extraordinarily, the skeleton is still wearing his thigh-high leather boots.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 is about to be everywhere in the Android smartphone space come 2019, but we can break down the five reasons why you should be excited about that. It’s faster than its predecessor, more power...

Comcast is bringing Amazon Prime Video to its Xfinity X1 platform, the company has announced. The new support will give Xfinity X1 customers direct access to Amazon’s video content, including originals like The Man in ...

The Snapdragon 855 is here, and Qualcomm would really rather you call it a “Mobile Platform” than a processor. Promising to open the door to a new decade of 5G, Artificial Intelligence, and Mixed Reality technologies...

Yesterday, Qualcomm announced the name of its next big mobile chip--the Snapdragon 855 (Surprise!)--but didn't say much about what it could do until now. And while innovations in mobile processors can often seem opaque a...

As we hurtle towards 2019, Qualcomm has been busy introducing the world to its latest products that are likely to drive next year's biggest trends. At the first keynote of its three-day Tech Summit in Hawaii yesterday, t...

A budget phone with the newest version of Android onboard right out the box – that shouldn’t be a surprise, but it is. Today the Nokia 8.1 was revealed as a global phone, complete with an Android One version of Andro...

Rumor has it the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home is coming this Saturday out of Brazil Comic-Con. If that's true, fans are soon going to learn a lot more about what Peter Parker has been up to since, well, we...

Messenger Lite, Facebook's stripped down version of its popular messaging app, is getting some new features for customization and expression. Starting today, users of the app will be able to send and view animated GIFs, ...

Over the last few days, 26-year-old Lily Fox has been manually going through her Tumblr blog and backing up, then deleting, every single nude photo that she's posted over the last five years. For the time being, she's le...