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Would-be Tropical Storm Barry is still a day or more away from forming, let alone making landfall. But the developing system's impacts are already being felt on Wednesday morning in New Orleans.

In the winter of 2010, a 19-year-old Moroccan man named Kacem Ghazzali logged into his email to find a message from Facebook informing him that a group he had created just a few days prior had been removed from the platf...

Wear OS, formerly Android Wear’ smartwatches are a dime a dozen but few can claim to rival the Apple Watch or even Samsung’s Galaxy Watch, formerly Samsung Gear S. Part of that is blamed on the lackluster hardware, w...

A journey to Mars will take several years, and humans won't be able to turn back if an astronaut suffers a burn or a bone fracture. Which is why scientists at the University Hospital of Dresden Technical University have ...

So much for Samsung maintaining even the slightest bit of secrecy around the Galaxy Note 10 ahead of its August 7th debut. Both Ishan Agarwal (via MySmartPrice) and WinFuture have obtained what look to be official press ...

Huawei’s newest fate inside US borders was mentioned in a set of remarks delivered this week by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross. This set of remarks was made at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Annual C...

San Diego Comic-Con isn't the only major annual genre convention that takes place in the U.S., but it's one of the largest and most significant--both because of its history and because it's where many big announcements f...

The herbal remedy kratom, often touted as an alternative treatment for opioid withdrawal or chronic pain, is in for more bad publicity. This week, scientists published yet more research showing that the plant is linked t...

After months of rumors and speculation, Nintendo finally let the cat out of the bag today. The company has announced the Nintendo Switch Lite, which will be arriving in time for the ever-important holiday shopping season...

The turquoise water of a lake in Siberia looks like a tropical paradise, and it's drawn in hundreds of Instagramers who have posed in and around the "Novosibirsk Maldives." But it's not white sands or microscopic plankto...

Two critics of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who were blocked by the lawmaker on Twitter are now suing her. New York congressional candidate Joseph Saladino and former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hinkind on Tuesday fi...

Google Translate, the company’s machine translation tool, is available as a mobile app with a unique feature: instant camera translation. As the name suggests, this feature uses a mobile device’s camera to capture te...

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

U.S. Homeland Security officials faced a barrage of questions on Wednesday from House lawmakers frustrated--as several put it--over the alleged lack transparency exhibited by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) when it c...

A day after detailing its plan, Virgin Orbit has successfully dropped a test rocket from a plane high above the Mojave Desert in California. The test is a key step toward the space company’s plan of eventually launchin...

Another Star Wars movie, another Stormtrooper redesign. If The Last Jedi had the Executioner, and The Force Awakens had the First Order trooper design itself, now The Rise of Skywalker is bringing the full might of the d...

Apple has been busy in the tablet space this year between the new iPad Air and an overdue iPad mini update, but what about everybody else? You're getting your fix soon, apparently. MySmartPrice has discovered filings at ...

Many older cats suffer from health problems caused by a hyperactive thyroid, and while there's no single cause of the condition, hormone-disturbing chemicals in the environment are thought to be an important factor. A ne...

Four Maryland students charged with hate crimes for plastering their school in racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic words and imagery just days before their high school graduation last year were identified by school admi...

Etsy's latest attempt to boost sales isn't sitting well with creators. The company has announced that, starting July 30th, it will give "priority placement" in US search results and advertising to items that ship free an...

Wyze has released a free firmware update that brings a Person Detection feature to the company’s existing Wyze Cam v2 (the cube-shaped model), as well as the tower-shaped and motorized Wyze Cam Pan. The new feature is ...

We already knew that Amazon is working on a Lord of the Rings TV series, but today, the company’s game development arm confirmed that it’s working on video game as well. Apparently, Amazon has partnered with Leyou Te...