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In early December, Boing Boing published a piece about an e-scooter "conversion kit," a $30 hotwiring option for users who were, in theory, able purchase any number of Bird electric scooters collecting dust at city impou...

Earlier this week, we reported on a recent food allergy study that, perhaps not surprisingly, stirred up a long of strong feelings among readers. The research suggested that roughly 10 percent of adult Americans are alle...

The 5G hype at CES has grown each year, becoming unavoidable and almost unbearable over the past two shows. This year was no different -- we saw companies announce more partnerships and rollout plans, as well as the laun...

Late last year, the U.S. government accidentally revealed that a sealed complaint had been filed against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Shortly before this was made public, the FBI reconfirmed its investigatio...

A company called Indemnis has developed a parachute safety system for the DJI Inspire 2 drone, one that helps keep people on the ground safe by slowly lowering a drone that would otherwise fall. The system, which is call...

Verizon is alpha testing a game streaming service, according to a new report, which comes only days after Amazon was tipped in a similar project. Based on the leak, the Verizon Gaming service is already up and running on...

GM is building a simpler way to charge its electric cars, cutting through the confusion of multiple charging networks. What the automaker isn’t going to do is echo Tesla or Volkswagen-owned Electrify America and build ...

The GoFundMe campaign raising money to build Donald Trump's wall on the southern U.S. border never had a chance of succeeding. And now it is undead, an officially failed effort that somehow lives on. On Friday, the crowd...

Archaeologists are trying to figure out why so many bodies at a 1,700-year-old site in Suffolk, England, were buried alongside their decapitated heads.

Las Vegas is not a town for half measures. So it's of little surprise that when the state of Nevada legalized recreational cannabis in July of 2017, Sin City took the cannabis dispensary model and added a bit of Vegas' o...

Ample evidence already exists that Donald Trump doesn't care at all for those who voted for him in 2016, or for his cultish base that continues to support him no matter the cost.

Over the last few years, there have been a few mobile games that use the cell phone interface itself as a way to play.

One of the co-founders of the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm behind the powerful phone-surveillance software Pegasus, NSO Group, has denied that their products were involved in the Saudi Arabian government's torture and...

I walked through The Void's virtual reality center in the Las Vegas Venetian twice. The first time, armed with headset and wireless backpack, I was shuttled through Ralph Breaks VR, the company's latest experience. I saw...

If you wanted to simplify, CES 2019 could be neatly divided into self-driving cars, giant TVs and health tech. A lot of what we've seen of the latter either tracks your movement or is hardware ingrained into workouts. Sp...

Did you know that the BBC shares a lot of their teleplays online? Including a lot featuring our favorite Doctor.

CBS' ongoing streaming push is now affecting its movie business. Variety has revealed that CBS is folding its Films division into the larger Entertainment Group over the next year, and it will shift its focus to streamin...

The late comics legend's final animated cameo will be on Marvel's Avengers: Black Panther's Quest, airing this Sunday.

The gaming laptop renaissance is upon us. For the past few years, they've been getting thinner, lighter and more powerful, thanks to NVIDIA's 10-series Max-Q graphics cards. But this year at CES, they got truly weird and...

Russia's only orbiting space radio telescope, Spektr-R (RadioAstron), has stopped responding to the spacecraft's control staff, the BBC reported Saturday, though Astro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev told the BBC th...

Just days after Elon Musk unveiled the first images of his aerospace company's Starship test rocket, SpaceX has announced that it is slimming down its workforce by roughly 10 percent.

There are more than 1,700 American companies at CES, 1,200 official exhibitors from China, and several hundred from France and South Korea. Many of them are veterans of the trade show circuit, one-upping each other's boo...