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Back in 2009, Twitter added a feature that we now know wouldn’t prove very popular: precise geotagging. With this feature, users could enable the platform to share their precise location with tweets, something Twitter ...

Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser to one of its most important audiences: namely, people who have to (or want to) use older versions of Windows. The company has released Canary channel p...

The Galaxy Note 10 will be breaking away from its predecessors in more ways than one. While it will thankfully still keep its iconic S Pen stylus, Samsung will be throwing out the headphone jack and possibly some other f...

A London student was just convicted for using a 3D printer to make a gun--but not just something that looks like a gun. On Wednesday, Tendai Muswere pleaded guilty to manufacturing a lethal firearm with a 3D printer. The...

Adobe’s Lightroom has found its way into the Mac App Store, offering subscription access to the popular photo editing and organization tool. It’s the first software from Adobe’s full-featured Photoshop family to fi...

Riviera Beach, a city in Florida, is set to pay hackers $600,000 in bitcoin with the hope of having its systems restored. Hackers took over the systems several weeks ago, when a police department employee opened a malici...

The best open filesystem just keeps getting better.

A jury has ordered "family-friendly" movie service VidAngel to pay $62.4 million to Hollywood studios for pirating their content. Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. sued the company over copyright infringement. Vi...

The comment section on YouTube is notorious for its generally low-quality and otherwise awful content. Users get into fights with strangers, the occasional scammer peddles their garbage, desperate creators beg for viewer...

With Toy Story 4's premiere upon us, now's as good a time as any to start thinking about Pixar's future projects, and not just ones like Onward that we've already seen glimpses of. Today, Disney and Pixar announced the t...

Google isn't killing all tablets, but it will no longer be making its own tablets. It's a crying shame as Google's merging of Android and Chrome OS for last years abysmally reviewed Pixel Slate was perhaps the perfect ta...

After 11 years and almost two dozen movies, it was a bit of a shock: a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was openly gay. How it was handled, however, was arguably more shocking.

With the historic Rosetta mission now firmly in the rear view mirror, the European Space Agency has set its sights on a different kind of comet, that is, a comet that's never visited the inner reaches of the solar system...

A report and confirmation from Google SVP of Devices and Services Rick Osterloh today say Google is axing tablets. This means that for the foreseeable future, Google won’t be designing and/or ordering manufacturing for...

If you've ever tried to find a locksmith on Google in a pinch, this may not surprise you. Turns out Google Maps is filled with millions of scam operations that are impersonating real businesses, according to a new report...

Today Slack hit Wall Street and closed at over 48% in its first day of trading. If you do not know what Slack is, chances are you work with people that you see five days a week. Slack is a chat system with which business...

Going on vacation is good for your heart, a new study reveals, highlighting another reason to treasure time away from the office. According to the researchers, going on vacation offers benefits related to metabolic healt...

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In its first day on the New York Stock Exchange, workplace messaging company Slack leapt over 50-percent above its reference price of $26 per share despite employing an unusual, less costly strategy to debut on the marke...

I've spent most of my day thinking about the video going around describing the absurd, 12-part process that's required to reset GE C-Life smart bulbs. So I bought some and performed the Sisyphean ritual myself.

Trond Larsen was night-searching for rare frogs and insects in the Lost City recently discovered within Honduras' Mosquitia Rainforest when his headlamp illuminated something surprising: a curious black puma. Larsen, a r...

It's hard to imagine that a franchise with such an important history as Doctor Who doesn't have a complete archive of its journeys across time and space. But that's been the case for Who since the '70s, and the impact of...