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Strange, fantastical things are brewing in VR, and the Tribeca Film Festival's Immersive Arcade is a great place to find them. One of the most intriguing things I saw at the festival this year was a stop-motion experienc...

Blue whales are impressive creatures. Stretching up to 90 feet long and weighing over 300,000 pounds, these gentle giants often migrate hundreds of miles between their summer feeding grounds and winter breeding grounds. ...

It's been 20 years since there was a genuinely new Earthworm Jim game, and longer still since the original team was involved. However, the gang is coming back -- if you're willing to take a chance on a retro console. Int...

Much of the attention in smartphone news these days is unsurprisingly poured on high-end and expensive phones like the Galaxy S10, the Huawei P30, and especially the Galaxy Fold. That sadly alienates a large chunk of the...

Everyone has a theory: Maybe it's that iPhones are too expensive. Maybe it's that Apple's quality control seems weaker, or that they've alienated consumers by removing consumer-friendly features like the headphone jack. ...

2019 seems to be the year when Samsung makes huge gambles in an attempt to bolster its image and market share. Of those two bets, one has already ended up being a PR nightmare. The other, Samsung says, is a noteworthy ac...

Pre-orders have appeared through major online retailers for a new book from Epic Games, the company behind battle royale hit Fortnite. Titled “Official Fortnite Battle Royale Survival Guide,” the book promises to off...

Facebook's F8 developer conferences tend to be chock-full of news, and that's truer than ever for 2019. The company's opening keynote brought major changes to just about every corner of Facebook's universe, including a s...

The New York Supreme Court ruled today to uphold New York City's minimum wage for drivers working for ride-sharing services, shooting down a challenge to the rule from Lyft. The ruling will maintain the New York Taxi and...

Scientists found a radioactive signature of atomic bomb blasts in crustaceans living in the ocean's depths, according to a new paper.

More than 700 cases of the measles have been reported in the United States this year, according to federal health officials, with hundreds in quarantine. It's been characterized as the largest outbreak of the preventable...

Apple engineer Walter Huang was driving his 2017 Tesla Model X on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, the morning of March 23, 2018, when the car steered left into a concrete median, killing Huang in the resul...

Netflix has announced the launch of high-quality audio for its video content. The new feature will offer the company’s customers access to studio-tier audio, assuming their Internet speeds are fast enough to stream it....

The archaeology world is abuzz today with news of the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Siberia. The 160,000-year-old jawbone was uncovered by a Buddhist monk in a Chinese cave nearly 40 years ago--an aspect of thi...

Today was a big day for Borderlands fans, as Gearbox and 2K finally gave us a long-awaited look at how the game will play. There weren’t a ton surprises since Borderlands 3 looks plenty like the games that came before ...

Knowing that our apps gather boatloads of information about us--some for years--can be unsettling. Google's various apps are chief among these, and the company said it has heard user requests to make managing their data ...

The rumors were true: Vudu will offer original shows, including a few with twists. Vudu confirmed at a presentation that it would introduce a variety of exclusive programming, including "interactive content" produced wit...

Hurricane Maria was the deadliest storm in modern U.S. history. And the damage didn't end when the storm clouds cleared back in September 2017. Especially not for Puerto Rico's youngest.

The University of Maryland Medical Center has announced the first-ever successful delivery of a donor organ that was later transplanted into a patient. The unmanned aerial vehicle was used to send a kidney, according to ...

The folks at Samsung watching leakers go crazy on the Galaxy Note 10 aren’t having a great day. Or, depending on how the most major info leakers get their info, Samsung’s PR crew might just be having a super fun day....

In the past couple months, Spotify has doubled down on its podcasting efforts. It's invested hundreds of millions and acquired Gimlet, Anchor and Parcast. One thing the company lacks is a way to recommend podcasts to its...

Facebook kicked off the second day of F8 2019, its annual developers conference, with a keynote about the technologies it uses to combat abuse on its platform. As the company detailed last year, artificial intelligence i...