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CERN is shutting down the Large Hadron Collider (LHD) for two years in order to make “major improvements” to the system. All experiments and the accelerator complex will end during these 24 months, giving experts tim...

When I was a kid, I was certain that by the time I was a grown woman, I'd have a friendly little robot friend. Adulthood was in the FUTURE, and the FUTURE had robots like R2-D2, Threepio, Data, and so on. Alas, I am a ta...

The Nintendo Switch has what is unquestionably the biggest week of the year ahead of it. The most anticipated Switch game of 2018, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, lands tomorrow, just in time to anchor a critical holiday shop...

Tap into your creative tech side with the Ozobot Robot Educator Entry Kits. Designed for educators, these kits have everything you need to learn and pass on knowledge about coding to your students. First, you use Educato...

The alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is in trouble. Thanks to an Australian lawsuit, his finances were made public for the first time this week, and folks... they're not good. The one-time Breitbart writer owes at...

While there was little doubt it would happen, it's now a done deal: California will require solar panels on most new homes. Officials at a December 5th Building Standards Commission meeting have voted for the new code, p...

The atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet located 163 light-years from Earth is being blasted into space by its host star, forming a ghostly tail. Excessive ultraviolet radiation is responsible for the celestial phenomenon...

Honda Research Institute has announced a new breakthrough battery chemistry developed in collaboration with Caltech and NASA JPL researchers. The technology, which was detailed in a newly published study, has a better ec...

Every morning, without fail, I ask my closest smart speaker to play NPR. That's convenient, but it's only slightly better than turning on an old-school radio. Clearly, there's much more that a web-connected, voice-contro...

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

Subscription movie theater service MoviePass gained massive popularity last year by offering something so simple and sensible it was unavoidable: a movie a day for 10 bucks a month. But that plan didn't work for MoviePas...

With its share of the browser market dwindling despite coming pre-installed on Windows machines, Microsoft is calling an audible with Edge. Following rumors earlier this week, the company announced today that it is is ov...

Though the list of Apple-made iPhone accessories is fairly short, one that manages to stand out is the Smart Battery Case. This case took on established brands like Mophie in the external power space when it launched for...

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The founders of Predictim want to be clear with me: Their product--an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their "risk" levels for parents--is not racist. It is not biased.

The next-gen smartphone Huawei Nova 4 was just leaked in a set of photos, showing both front and back of the device. This device was teased on the 3rd of December by Huawei’s official Weibo account – now it’s time ...

Apple has announced that its ECG app is now available for Apple Watch Series 4. This is the first direct-to-consumer product that provides the public with access to a wearable ECG, enabling them to track heart data and g...

If there are two things missing from Qualcomm’s big Snapdragon 8cx announcement today, it’s 5G and actual hardware. The chip-maker has been talking up fifth-generation networks all week at its Snapdragon Summit 2018,...

Mobile phone customers in the UK and Japan were affected by a network outage today, one that impacted millions of users, the Financial Times reports. A number of SoftBank customers in Japan lost connectivity in the early...

When Apple pushed iOS version 12.1.1 on Wednesday, AT&T users gained the ability to use the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max's in a dual-SIM configuration. Verizon users will be able to set up a similar situation on their devic...

When you build a gaming rig, you're going to find yourself talking a lot about numbers. Higher and bigger are generally better, especially when it comes to stuff like processor speed, amount of RAM and the size of your h...

This year we’ve got a nice little list of awesome toys for all the girls and all the boys. This list includes not just toys for younger family members, but creative tools for older kids too. On this list are all the on...