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The New York Police Department plans to deploy around 7,000 police officers tonight for security in Times Square, as well as a drone that will monitor the festivities from the sky. This is a milestone occasion for the NY...

The US Department of Agriculture has announced the recall of more than 11,600lbs of pork and chicken sausages over the risk of contamination. According to the agency, it’s possible that bits of metal may have made its ...

In the case of a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing a large cache of classified documents, a federal judge this month agreed to toss out statements made by the contractor, Harold "Hal" M...

Get lost in another world with he LUCI Immers VR Display Headset. Looking like a comfortable pair of sunglasses, this headset is ultra lightweight. In fact, at 185 grams, it's about the weight of a smartphone. Like sungl...

China's ever-growing reliance on facial recognition is spreading to public housing. Beijing is ramping up the use of face-detecting smart locks in public housing projects to bolster security for tenants (such as denying ...

In Arizona, the same state where one of Uber's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, people have reportedly been vandalizing autonomous vehicles operated by Waymo, the Google spin-off owned by Alphabet.

Netflix rarely finds itself thrust into political debates like other internet giants, but it won't enjoy that luxury in 2019. The streaming service has pulled the second episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj in Saudi ...

On New Year’s Eve, while the rest of the world was celebrating the approach of 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a new record after successfully entering into the closest orbit to ever take place. The mileston...

Scarlett Johansson knows better than most how horrible a place the internet can be. She's been the victim of leaks before where private photos have ended up publicly available. And now she's been targeted by a new kind o...

Turns out the only way you can beat Game of Thrones consistent record as the most pirated piece of TV around is... to hope for a year where it doesn't air at all. At least that won't be a problem after this year!

Tetris, like Mario, is one of those perennial games that will probably never go away. The core gameplay of Tetris is solid enough that it can stand on its own some 35 years after it first debuted, but that hasn't stopped...

Martin Ford made waves with his 2015 book, Rise of the Robots, which details the many accelerating trends in automation and how they're slated to impact business and, especially, employment. For his next book, Architects...

Queen guitarist Brian May hasn't been shy about his fondness for astronomy (he does have a doctorate in astrophysics), and he's making that patently clear as 2019 kicks off. The artist has written a song to mark NASA's h...

Pick your super-slim, super-powerful smartphone out of your pocket today, and it's easy to forget just how far mobile technology has come in the last 20 years or so--and here we want to pay tribute to the major firsts in...

GTA Online's latest major update, Arena War, was a nice surprise that felt totally different than previous updates. It's focused on automobile death sports and has a slick reality show theme, complete with announcers and...

Google now provides its users with another way to make donations to major charities: Google Assistant. As of now, Google Assistant users can use their voice to donate to a supported charity. The new feature follows the l...

NASA now has proof that its New Horizons probe completed its record-setting flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. The mission team confirmed the flypast at 10:31AM Eastern Time after receiving telemetry data indi...

Right now is one of the best times to buy a new TV. In early January, TV makers will announce their 2019 sets at CES, so all the 2018 set will be cheaper than usual as companies work to burn off their old inventory. And ...

The first day of the new year has already delivered on a historic moment in science. Just hours into 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft was confirmed to have made its flyby of the mysterious Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thul...

UK Astronomer Royal Martin Rees chats with Ars about his new book On the Future.

Grab some fireworks, and get into the true spirit of Independence Day: freedom from a life with no new Stranger Things to watch.

2018 has ended and 2019 has begun. And while most end-of-the-year posts usually and rightfully look back on what has transpired in the past, we cannot forever walk forward with our heads turned backward. 2019 will be an ...