Gadget News

From stalled investigations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to all-out chaos at understaffed national parks, the effects of the Trump administration's government shutdown are being felt across agencies as it o...

Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, is always searching for ways to keep the lights on while developing and distributing a complex and sophisticated piece of software for the pric...

The hackers who stole Orange is the New Black are back, and they've hit a new low. The group known as TheDarkOverlord claims to have stolen 18,000 documents from Hiscox Syndicates, Lloyds of London and Silverstein Proper...

Waymo finally launched its public self-driving ride-sharing program in Arizona last month after a year of testing, but it's been a year full of gun-wielding, rock-throwing, tire-slashing Arizonians targeting the company'...

Mozilla announced today that its Thunderbird desktop email client will be getting some much needed love in 2019, with the team preparing to tackle user interface issues, improve user experience and promote better integra...

Just a few days before CES 2019 is scheduled to kick off, Funai has announced a new pair of Philips 4K TVs. With these new televisions, Philips will be bringing its Android TV support to the US. That isn’t a very surpr...

Chinese state media is reporting that China’s Chang’e 4 robotic probe is expected to land on the far side of the moon tonight. Previous reports estimated the probe would land some time between January 1 and 3, but of...

The excitement around NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arriving at its latest target, an oddly shaped object called (486958) 2014 MU69, has dredged up a fact that often goes unstated--the object's nickname, "Ultima Thule,"...

Kieron Gillen will never forget the time that he was a female Soviet air bomber in WWII and an airplane turned his character into "soup."

Soli could enable smartwatches to detect hand gestures, if it ever launches.

Welcome to Good Points, a new weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. First up is...myself! If you know anyone who just won't shut up about their points strategy (guilty ...

An entirely new kind of space body was seen over the past few hours – and what a strange sort of space matter it is! This is Ultima Thule, the latest space object detected and photographed by NASA’s New Horizons miss...

NASA's New Horizons team has released the promised first images from its history-making flyby of (486958) 2014 MU69, and they're already shedding some light on the early Solar System -- while also raising some questions....

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly a decade since Super Meat Boy first released. All these years later, it’s still held up as one of the best platforming games ever made. While we’re sure a lot of people ...

The subscribe-to-PewDiePie hacking campaign continues unabated -- although it might have a positive side benefit this time around. TheHackerGiraffe (who perpetrated the earlier printer hack) has compromised thousands of ...

Roku is about to launch premium subscriptions through The Roku Channel, the company has announced. The subscriptions will be supported starting later this month — an exact date wasn’t provided — at which time users...

The New Horizons team has released the first high-resolution images of (486958) 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, the furthest object ever explored by a spacecraft.

Wednesday is scandal haver Ryan Zinke's last day as Secretary of the Interior. And it looks like his last official tweet will be the perfect memorial to his utter lack of self awareness.

It didn't take long for Netflix to confirm its bid to poach Activision's financial chief -- the streaming giant has announced that Spencer Neumann will join the company to replace outgoing CFO David Wells. The company di...

Getting around from point A to point B across short distances will normally require you to walk some bit. However, there has been developments in recent years that have allowed one to go down the road of a personal mobil...

Keyboards, for reasons I'm still unsure of, seem to inspire a lot of nerdery. People will spend hundreds of dollars to tweak and customize their keyboards until they're perfect. Or they'll bust out some old keyboard part...

Careful, trademark infringement lawsuits may be coming. Even though HBO has already warned President Donald Trump to stop using Game of Thrones imagery to stoke fear and hate, he's doubling down by turning his November 2...