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Archaeologists in the Bolivian Andes have discovered a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle--basically a stash of drug paraphernalia--containing traces five different psychoactive substances, including cocaine and the active ing...

Google brought Nest back into the fold last year, and now it has announced that the smart home brand is being rebranded as Google Nest. The decision was announced during the Google I/O 2019 keynote today, marking the lat...

Orange, a French telecom giant, is being sued for moral harassment, among other charges, after 19 employees died by suicide and another 12 attempted to kill themselves over a three-year span. Over 100 people have claimed...

Microsoft is clearly invested in adaptive gaming controllers. Its Xbox Adaptive Controller for Xbox One and PC was the star of its latest Super Bowl ad. The company spent more than a year designing accessible packaging, ...

The US may be set to hang onto the crown of having the world's most powerful supercomputer for some time. Cray Computing and AMD are building an exascale machine with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system is set ...

Whether it's a meditation app or looking at puppy videos, much of today's technology focuses on replacing your negative feelings with positive ones. But what if you want to act on all your feelings of anger, sadness and ...

When we saw a leak of a device called the Google Nest Hub Max in March, we thought it was a little unusual. Why would a Google Hub device have the Nest branding on it? Now, we know why. At Google I/O, the company announc...

The InSight lander seems to have been hit by one of Mars' famous dust devils, but don't worry--the NASA probe is just fine. If anything, the sudden blast of wind helped to clear off some annoying dust that had been colle...

Smart speakers and their cousins smart displays and smart thermostats are the new darlings of the consumer tech market. The convenience and sometimes entertainment provided by these products and services seem to outweigh...

It won’t be long now before Google finally makes official its next worst kept secret, the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. Granted, the two haven’t been leaked to death three times over the way the Pixel 3 and 3 XL were but...

Over the years, scientists have strengthened the link between gut bacteria and mental health, among other aspects of one’s overall health, indicating that our unique gut bacteria profiles may have a profound effect on ...

A better, faster, stronger Google is in store for 2019. During its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, the company unveiled dozens of updates to every corner of the Google ecosystem; from search and Google Assistant to ...

Researchers with Drexel University created a game designed to train adults on making better food choices when it comes to added sugar. American adults consume too much sugar and that’s a major health risk, but not ever...

Look at them up there in the pic--Lyft CEO Logan Green, President John Zimmer, and a whole bunch of other employees that Getty wasn't interested in naming--on the day their company officially debuted on the Nasdaq, with ...

Plastics aren't recycled nearly as much as we'd like them to be, but a team from Berkeley Lab has developed a method to hopefully make that process easier. In a recently published study, these researches describe a new t...

Google revealed the Next Home Hub today, and with it, they re-shuffled their branding for smart home products. Now we’ve got a bigger Nest Hub Max (with 10-inch screen) and the smaller Nest Hub. This larger device is a...

In addition to its new Pixel 3 and Nest Hub Max, Google revealed a host of recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The Assistant is getting a significant speed boost -- not just because you no longer...

The rumors were true -- Google plans to let you block cross-site tracking in Chrome. The search firm has unveiled efforts to improve its cookie controls by distinguishing between single- and multi-site cookies, giving yo...

For most users, voice assistants are helpful tools. But for the millions of people with speech impairments caused by neurological conditions, voice assistants can be yet another frustrating challenge. Google wants to cha...

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A new report released this week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is weighing in on a contentious debate within the science world: the idea that scientific research is fundamentally flawed,...

Arsenic in drinking water may lead to thickening of the heart in young adults, according to a new study. The research, which was recently published in an American Heart Association journal, found that the thickening impa...