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We've got the biggest stories from SXSW over the weekend, as well as news on more suspicious cryptocurrency dealings (to paraphrase, it was an elaborate pyramid scheme), and you've told us what you really thought about t...

Facebook is all too aware of how developers can make off with private data, and it's willing to go to court to fight that behavior. The Verge has learned that the social network sued two Ukranian men, Andrey Gorbachov an...

Adobe isn't just putting Flash on ice. In the wake of customer emails, the software giant has signaled that it will discontinue Shockwave for Windows on April 9th, 2019. The company had already phased out its Director au...

There might be a subtle change afoot in the Android world. In the past, developer previews of upcoming Android releases were limited to Google’s Nexus devices. While there’s still an exclusive period for Pixel and st...

Just like its parent company, YouTube has taken no small amount of flack for how it surfaced videos that some consider to be fake news, inappropriate, or even downright trolling. Often, YouTube has hidden behind its auto...

The New York City Police Department has developed a pattern-recognition tool called Patternizr to sort through mountains of files related to "hundreds of thousands of crimes logged in the NYPD's database," the Associated...

Previous attempts to find a cure for Alzheimer's ended up in failure, but a new study out of IBM Research has the potential to spark a major breakthrough. A group of IBM researchers have harnessed the powers of machine l...

When Samsung was rumored to be going with an Infinity-O hole-in display, there was one consequence that wasn’t talked about as much. The shift to a more constrained design meant that Samsung could no longer offer the f...

If Google ever makes hardware to go along with its rumored game streaming service, you might have an idea as to how it will work. Yanko Design has spotted a recently published Google patent application for an internet-co...

A ten dollar price increase was tipped this afternoon for all DIRECTV NOW users. That’ll apparently make the standard package DIRECTV NOW cost around $50 a month – and it’ll be re-named DIRECTV NOW Plus. This small...

The Hubble Space Telescope has just released some spectacular new cosmic eye candy. This wild image shows NGC 6052, a pair of colliding galaxies 230 million light-years away.

Ongoing concerns in the US about Chinese company Huawei have spread to Germany, where security agencies have been warned that they’ll be cut off from certain intelligence data if Huawei equipment is used as part of the...

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

Even though Skype for Web seems to work in Firefox, Microsoft won't let you use it.

It isn’t really a secret that Twitter would like to change the way conversations happen on its platform, and today, it’s launching a new app that might help it accomplish that goal. The new app is named Twttr, and it...

Google Home, the search giant's series of smart speakers powered by Google Assistant, is a pretty impressive hands-free helper. You can ask it when your next meeting is, tell it to add an item to your grocery shopping li...

If you’d seen the plush “Earthie” toy in photos of the International Space Station, you’d know it. It’s basically a spherical earth in blue and green, with blue arms, blue legs, black oval-shaped eyes, and a ci...

Folding phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X certainly have geek-appeal, but how exactly are they meant to improve everyday life? That’s the question Samsung has set out to at least begin to answer wit...

Private Internet Access is our readers' favorite VPN service, thanks in part to having lower prices than most of the competition. Starting on March 18 though, the company is raising its prices for the first time ever, wh...

A non-invasive eye test may one day be used to screen patients for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The test involves looking at blood vessels in the retina, but isn’t something that currently takes pla...

If the Bixby Button is the only feature on your Galaxy Note 9 of which you’re not a fan, today’s the day to change. Today you’re able to change what that button does, and what it activates. To attain the ability to...

Apple will hold an event on March 25, with the Cupertino company expected to reveal its new video service among other things. The event – with the tagline “It’s show time” – will take place at the Steve Jobs Th...