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Facebook, in an attempt to clean up the mess it's created, has announced yet another set of changes meant to help it be less awful.

Buying a new Mac can be a hassle. Transferring your data to that new computer can be even more. Even if you use cloud services like Apple’s own iCloud, chances are there will still be some you will need to manually tra...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill which would restore net neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission repealed in 2017. Representatives approved the bill by 232-190 (with a sole Republican voting ...

On Tuesday afternoon, police in Oregon received a 911 call claiming someone had locked themselves in the bathroom, according to a Facebook post from the Washington County Sheriff's Office. According to the law enforcemen...

The first ever image of a black hole, captured as it feasts on light, has been released, the result of groundbreaking research spanning eight telescopes spread around the globe. 55 million light years from Earth, and wit...

Laptops haven't been really upgradable in a while. Sure you could switch out the storage or memory on some, but as laptops have gotten thinner and thinner, even those components have become permanently a part of devices....

It's another type of programming to bring viewers--and advertisers--to YouTube.

You might want to forget about fantasies of taking your own flying car to work, at least for now. The University of Michigan and Ford have published a study indicating that electric flying cars wouldn't be as environment...

The biggest social network has been mired in so many controversies and scandals that some have already abandoned the Facebook ship. Others, however, are less convinced, sometimes to keep connected with family and friends...

Walmart is gearing up to deploy thousands of robots in its stores across the US, the company has announced. The retailer already features some robotic equipment in select stores, but this will mark a huge expansion of th...

Senators Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) have introduced legislation to ban so-called "dark patterns" tactics designed to trick users into handing over access to their data, Reuters reported on Tues...

Google is known for making products that they practically abandon after one or two iterations. Sometimes they don’t even reach store shelves at all. With the company’s downsizing of its projects and teams working on ...

Fortnite players have been grumpy with Epic Games since the release of version 8.20, which brought substantial changes to the way the game worked. Players can no longer siphon health and materials after killing an oppone...

Brick and mortar stores have been hit hard by online retailers like Amazon. Walmart (which has its own online presence) believes it has an answer to dwindling sales. Its solution, robots that take care of mundane jobs (l...

Dropbox is making it easier for its users to work in the cloud by integrating Google’s office web apps with its cloud service. Under the new support, users who are signed into a Google G Suite account can directly acce...

Scientists revealed a new species of hominid this week in Homo luzonensis. Bones from this ancient creature were dated to around 50,000 years, and depict a combination of features not found together in any other Homo spe...

The first ever black hole photo may be a milestone in science, but it turns out the telescope array used to capture it is just as groundbreaking. Astronomers released the eerie image of the black hole at the center of ga...

Disney has a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe-adjacent shows in the works for its upcoming streaming platform, and it seems one of them is a limited Hawkeye series starring Jeremy Renner. The Disney+ show is reportedl...

Lowering LDL cholesterol levels is known to reduce one’s risk of having a stroke or heart attack, but levels below a certain threshold may have the opposite effect on stroke risk in women. Though levels lower than 100m...

Billy Batson being an orphan is a central part of his heroic origin story, which factors into the inherent goodness that makes him worthy of becoming Shazam. Golden Age Captain Marvel comics established that even without...

SpaceX is set to launch its Falcon Heavy later today, in what will be the first commercial flight for the world's most powerful rocket. As part of the mission, the Elon Musk-led company will attempt to make history by la...

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