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The economic juggernaut we call the internet has thrived principally thanks to a single U.S. law passed more than two decades ago--Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It states quite simply that website operat...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory that warns it has received some reports of seizures from e-cigarette users. The majority of the reports involve “youth and young adult users,” according to the ...

There'll be a month-long release preview phase, less aggressive end-user deployment, and more.

Last night at a Republican fundraiser in DC, Donald Trump claimed that wind turbines cause cancer with the citation, "They say the noise causes cancer." This may be because the president has a grudge against wind power b...

Smoking, lack of exercise, not getting enough sleep — these are among the many lifestyle factors popularly known to have a negative effect on one’s health, but none of them compare to the ramifications of a poor diet...

The British government is preparing to publish its plans to clamp down on social networks that distribute and promote harmful content. According to a leaked document, the proposed measures include enabling regulators to ...

New headphones and a cheaper smart speaker help Apple push Apple Music.

Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals, according to new research. Behaviors such as grooming, sniffing, and poking the dead, and in one case a...

In a bid to remain relevant, Snap Inc. has launched a slew of new products for its Snapchat app, including an augmented reality (AR) developer platform and a games platform.

The premiere of Game of Thrones‘ eighth and final season is quickly approaching, and Roku subscribers who need a way to watch it were given some good news today. Roku has added HBO to its Premium Subscriptions lineup, ...

Apple's new AirPods give you hands-free access to Siri, and it sounds like Amazon is working on something similar for Alexa. Bloomberg reports the online retail giant is working on its own true wireless earbuds that will...

Ketamine may have helped save the lives of the twelve boys and their soccer coach who were rescued from a Thai cave last summer.

Skype has expanded the capacity of group calls to 50 people and has added a notification feature for such calls. It started testing both features last month, and they'll be live for everyone starting today. The larger co...

Amazon hopes to ape AirPods success with a set of Alexa earbuds, it’s reported, as the retail behemoth makes another attempt to crack the mobile device market. The wireless earbuds would be Amazon’s first headphones ...

Past studies have found that exposure to nature can have a calming effect on people who are stressed out, but questions remain over how much exposure is necessary to get any sort of beneficial effect. Newly published res...

An internal Microsoft email chain, first reported by Quartz, reportedly details a litany of egregious acts of sexual harassment and discrimination experienced by women at the company. The chain received hundreds of respo...

All of a sudden, YouTube can't escape the spotlight. Normally the spotlight is exactly what the video streaming site wants but lately the temperature has been rising.

In a tweet today, Twitter announced that it's experimenting with new labels on conversation threads. The labels -- author, mention and follow -- are another attempt to make the platform more conversational and easier to ...

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

Elon Musk's prolonged battle with the SEC over his tweets reached a tentative conclusion on Thursday. For now, he's still allowed to post and you better believe he will excercise that right.

Users are reportedly not enjoying Google's "pilot program."

A journal published by Russia's Ministry of Defense became the subject of mockery this week after publishing claims that "Russian specialists" have communicated with dolphins, crashed computer programs, and even looked i...