Gadget News

During an event it called “Architecture Day” this week, Intel prepared us for what’s coming up in 2019. The company had a lot of announcements to make, and one of the most exciting is a new 3D packaging method for ...

Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook's "People You May Know" tool was outing sex workers' real identities to their clients, and vice versa, and I was trying to figure out how. A sex worker using the pseud...

Remember two days ago when Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8s in China and trotted out the CEOs of the fake Supreme brand to announce a collaboration for future products? After much backlash from fans who love paying a pr...

In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin' to go.

Apple Watches, cast iron skillets, Furbo's Pet Camera, and a discounted laptop lead off Wednesday's best deals.

Footwear company Puma has revived its RS-Computer Shoe, a classic sneaker from 1986 that — at the time of its launch — included sophisticated hardware targeted at athletes and enthusiasts. Though the technology has l...

You might not see most objects in near-total darkness, but AI can. MIT scientists have developed a technique that uses a deep neural network to spot objects in extremely low light. The team trained the network to look fo...

Amazon is releasing an update for its Fire TV Cube, bringing multi-room audio and more to its entertainment device. The features are arriving this week and include the maker’s Follow-up Mode, which eliminates the need ...

It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the bedrock, and you'll find a hot, sweaty underworld teeming with life that puts the surface biosphere to shame...

Early impressions about the heart monitoring recently added to the Apple Watch.

Minecraft has been updated to version 1.8, bringing a bunch of new features, updated templates, functions, a few experimental gameplay changes, and more. Players will, for example, find that stray cats now spawn in villa...

Tons of comic books have come to life as movies, but researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have developed a system for turning live-action video into a comic. Comixify picks out the best frames from any vide...

Laundry days are the worst. Not because I hate doing laundry--I love warm, fluffy, clean clothes--but because I need cold hard cash to use the machines at my local 24-hour laundromat. Legitimately, I've sat here for 20 m...

The case of water contamination in Flint, Michigan, is a textbook example of government failure. So much so that the state's attorney general office launched a criminal investigation against 15 state and local officials ...

It was 7:55 p.m. on a Saturday night, and I had just arrived at a small improv workshop and stage space in San Francisco's Mission district. Mere moments after I sat down, someone placed a stool in front of the stage, dr...

Serato DJ's latest Pro 2.1 and Lite 1.1 software updates have been in public beta for a couple of months, but today those final versions go live. Included with these updates are the addition of SoundCloud and Tidal strea...

In September, Apple released macOS Mojave with Dark Mode, an optional color scheme that replaces bright bars and backgrounds with darker shades. Today Microsoft pushed out an update for its Office 365 apps on Mac that ad...

The FCC has rubber-stamped wireless carriers' ongoing efforts to block spam text messages. The regulator voted in favor of a ruling that labels SMS and MMS as information services under the Communications Act, giving tel...

A report on internet speeds across the country released on Wednesday shows which cities and states have the slowest and fastest broadband--and which providers are the fastest.

To date, Overwatch League matches have taken place in Blizzard's own venue in Los Angeles. It's a special experience, but likely off-limits if you live on the other side of the continent or another country. For the 2019 ...

Netflix has revealed all of its new arrivals for January 2019, and among the movies and shows is something a lot of people have been waiting for: the second season of The Punisher. We’ve known that Netflix has been coo...

Don't worry, they only look like the Pokemon of your nightmares. The images you are about to see are, in fact, at the very bleeding edge of machine-generated imagery, mixed with a collaborative human-AI production by art...