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Hong Kong’s Correctional Services has revealed plans to test various surveillance technologies with the intention of creating ‘smart prisons,’ according to a local news report. The technologies are intended to moni...

Despite being one of the many poop-themed, gross-out toy reveals at last year's New York Toy Fair, Jakks Pacific's toilet-paper shooting Skid Shot turned out to be a fun alternative to traditional toy blasters that just ...

There are reasonable arguments for and against being able to edit tweets once they've been posted to Twitter dot com. Jack Dorsey doesn't necessarily want everyone to re-write their own history, but may allow us to re-co...

Dubai International Airport is the latest to halt flights over a drone scare following similar incidents at London's Gatwick and Heathrow. The world's third-busiest airport temporarily stopped operations for just under 3...

Samsung has a surprise product announcement today, but it's not the flagship phone we've been dying to hear about. Instead, the company is unveiling a new tablet -- the Tab S5e. It's a 10-inch Android 9 Pie device that t...

Just when you thought Sony was done with the letters, along comes a new leak that says otherwise. Of course, the Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 Plus might just be its new mid-range line and that doesn’t mean the company has a...

There are patents that we wish were made real and there are some patents we wish would never see the light of day. Samsung’s newly-granted patent might fall somewhere in between. For better or worse, it might also be t...

A wide range of app-makers are abusing enterprise certs to skip the App Store.

The classic Marvel Star Wars comic was one of the earliest, tentative steps into what would ultimately transform into the original Star Wars expanded universe; a world that fleshed out Han, Luke, and Leia's adventures be...

Stick around for long enough in your favorite app and you just might have a gift arrive at your doorstep. Amazon announced today a new service called Amazon Moments that will allow app developers to reward users for enga...

As we remember the now-officially-dead Opportunity rover this week, one fact keeps sticking out to me: That machine traveled a whopping 28 miles across the surface of another planet. And it did so in short, nerve-wrackin...

Ever since we humans started launching ourselves in space, junk has been accumulating in orbit around the Earth. There are more than 7,600 tons of space junk circling our plant, the product of old launches or long-dead s...

A misconfigured online database has exposed new details of China's tyrannical surveillance apparatus, which the country's government has used to further suppress one of its most persecuted populations.

A new even earlier timing for updating Google apps became apparent this week as Google aims for better security and an overall more consistent mobile experience. Developers received messages notifying them of the testing...

A small satellite has captured a piece of space debris using a claw-tipped harpoon. The test represents an important technological achievement given our mounting space junk problem.

Star Trek: Discovery's stars finally got a chance to talk more in depth about a big plot kept secret for a while.

New research out of the American Heart Association has found a link between artificially sweetened beverages like diet soda and an increased risk of stroke in post-menopausal women. Using self-reported data, this observa...

PowerUp Toys, the makers of a smartphone-controlled paper airplane kit, is at Toy Fair 2019 with three new gizmos to occupy your free time. The company has an updated version of its popular plane kit with dual propellers...

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

The upcoming Loki show for Disney+ has its showrunner, and he's from the world of Rick and Morty.

Until now, Mormon missionaries have only allowed to use phone calls or video chats to reach their families on Christmas and Mother's Day. After that, they'd had to rely on email or traditional letters. They'll have an ea...

This Friday the folks behind ARCore reminded developers that Android is a virtual playground of augmented reality tricks and tools. Evan Hardesty Parker, Software Engineer at Google working with ARCore, revealed a bit ab...