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The Trump administration is moving to start testing the DNA of people detained by U.S. immigration officers, according to reports of call on Wednesday between senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and re...

Google is determined to prove that it's a force for job creation, and it's cozying up to some unexpected allies to make that happen. Chief exec Sundar Pichai and Ivanka Trump held a roundtable event where Google announce...

After a limited launch this past summer, Uber plans to open up its John F. Kennedy International Airport helicopter shuttle service to more people. Starting on October 7th, you won't need to be an Uber Rewards member to ...

Tuesday was National Day in China, which marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Like all authoritarian regimes the ruling Chinese Communist Party loves a good giant celebration of ...

Presidents have taken steps to breakdown the integrity of the science federal agencies produce, according to a new report. Under President Donald Trump, however, the situation has gotten a whole lot worse, reaching what ...

AI's use in medicine could soon extend to one of the medical world's toughest challenges: helping the paralyzed regain movement. Intel and Brown University have started work on a DARPA-backed Intelligent Spine Interface ...

This summer, we learned that Google had embarked on a wide scale project to collect facial recognition data, which the company said was necessary to build "fairness" into face unlocking for its Pixel 4, which will be off...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) isn't so thrilled with Tesla's rollout of a feature that automatically summons the company's vehicles in parking lots, telling Reuters they are investigating res...

You're not alone if you think social networks are degrading the quality of news. A Pew study indicates that 62 percent of American adults believe social media companies have "too much control" over news, and 55 percent b...

Microsoft spreads the Surface love to Qualcomm and AMD, also takes on AirPods.

NASA has announced the discovery of new organic compounds on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, the space agency announced on Wednesday. The finding was made in data that had been gathered during NASA’s Cassini mission, indica...

Fair warning: It's time for users to update encrypted messaging service WhatsApp.

EA opened up registrations for the FIFA 20 Global Series competition today. However, those trying to register noticed that the sign-up page displayed personal details of players who had already done so. They saw username...

Thursday was a momentous day for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon market that governs power plant emissions in nine states. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order entering the sta...

There’s a new Snapchat sort of app available starting this week made by the Facebook-owned developers of Instagram. It’s the latest attempt by Facebook – via Instagram – to capture the Snapchat-using youth. The k...

Flashes lit up the sky over Chile last week, some even causing fires on the ground--but a new report has found that the origin of these fireballs is a mystery.

Back in February, the heat probe of NASA's InSight lander didn't get very far while trying to tunnel a hole into Mars. It's been stuck ever since, but NASA has devised a plan in the hopes of getting the probe moving agai...

Not a lot of people will buy themselves a VR headset or seek out VR arcades. Well, not as many as those who will go out to watch a Marvel movie, anyway. Marvel Studios and ILMxLAB, the company behind VR studio The Void, ...

Last month, Disney announced the list of devices that will support its Disney+ streaming service when it launches next month. As we noted at the time, Amazon’s Fire TV was notably absent from the list, which covers jus...

There are a number of non-Nintendo characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and considering that most of the DLC characters so far have come from properties that Nintendo doesn’t own, we’ll probably see even more by...

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