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Google is stepping up its efforts to limit web fingerprinting and otherwise protect your privacy while keeping its ad business intact. The internet giant is developing a set of open standards, nicknamed the "Privacy Sand...

The card strives to be compatible with the way we shop, not the way we dress.

The Apple Card is revolutionary in many senses. Unlike its rivals in the tech market, Apple has jumped in fully to become almost a financial institution itself. But also unlike most in the credit card market, its focus o...

On Tuesday TechCrunch reported that security researcher Mossab Hussein, with the firm SpiderSilk, found an exposed, unencrypted MoviePass database with millions of records. Some of those included numbers for its custom d...

IFA 2019 is a few weeks away so, unsurprisingly, those companies who aren’t too preoccupied with Gamescom this week have started preparing their wares and their press team for the upcoming international electronics sho...

Google’s Material Design was praised for its bold use of colors and images despite the predominantly flat aesthetic. In v2 of the design language, it seems that Google threw all that out the window and adopted a predom...

NASA is seeking American space companies that will make cargo runs to the lunar Gateway as part of the space agency’s Artemis program. In a statement this week, NASA revealed that it has issued a Request for Proposals,...

Following four years at the helm of HP, CEO Dion Weisler will step down in November. The Palo Alto-based PC maker today announced that its Australian chief executive will be leaving his role due to "family health" reason...

There's some good knewz for people who don't mind really dumb names and do believe that big tech has an anti-conservative bias--New Corp has been building an alternative to Google News, tentatively called Knewz.com.

NASA wants to explore the darkest regions of the Moon, but it’ll need technology that enables it to study these areas. To expedite the development of those exploration tools, NASA has announced its latest BIG Idea Chal...

News Corp wants to give people an alternative to Google News and Apple News. The media company that owns Dow Jones Newswires and HarperCollins is working on its own news aggregation service, reported The Wall Street Jour...

The free games offered through the Epic Games Store have rotated once again, and this week, the game on offer is Fez. Many gamers are familiar with Fez by this point, as the puzzle platformer quickly became very popular ...

The Democratic National Committee voted on Thursday to reject a proposed 2020 debate on climate change, which sure sounds like a great idea just as things get even more terrifying on that front.

The Samsung Galaxy A50s and A30s were announced today as ‘s’ upgrades to devices in the Galaxy A series: A50 and A30. These devices were released with surprisingly few details on pricing or release – almost as if S...

OtterBox, the company best known for its durable phone cases, has introduced its new OtterSpot Wireless Charging System with stackable, highly portable wireless charging pucks. The device opens the door for portable wire...

US consumers receive as many as 350,000 unwanted calls every three minutes, according to the FCC. Despite multiple efforts to end the onslaught, an estimated 4.7 billion robocalls hit American phones in July alone. Now, ...

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Twelve major phones companies and the attorneys general of every state in the U.S. announced a plan on Thursday intended not only to stem the flood of illegal robocalls that have forced many Americans to stop answering t...

The bad news about vaping continues to roll in with a new study from the University of North Carolina Health Care, where researchers identified changes in the lungs of vapers that mirror those seen in the lungs of smoker...

It probably should be much of a surprise that there’s a lot of interest about Minecraft Earth. Not only did Pokemon GO prove that there’s definitely a market for augmented reality games, but Minecraft Earth is able t...

I have to suspect that, back in 2011 when the original Galaxy Note was released, not even Samsung knew it would become as popular as it did. By the standards of the time, the Note and its 5.3-inch screen were massive, an...

This week the folks at Google enabled PDF edits for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, and the like) in the Google Drive app. Users will need the official Google Drive app for iOS or Android to make this work, but the...