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Google wants to make it easier to learn word pronunciations. Today, it introduced a new Search feature that will let users practice saying tricky words. When you look up a pronunciation, Google will provide an answer, an...

The U.S. and the world continue to lose ground against antibiotic resistance, according to a new report out this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And among other things, the number of superbugs t...

There are few game developers who have achieved rockstar fame as much as the two Johns of the former id Software. And of the two, one is moving on from games or at least from working on games directly. John Carmack will ...

Uber may insist that its drivers are contractors and not employees, but New Jersey isn't buying that argument. The state's labor department has slapped Uber and its Rasier subsidiary with a nearly $650 million bill for o...

Electronic cigarettes may have a similar effect on ‘good’ cholesterol levels as smoking traditional cigarettes, plus they may cause an increase in one’s level of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol, according to a new study....

Fret no more about your sun-less indoor life. The Wikoda Sunflower2 Natural Sunlight System tracks the sun all day long to beam outdoor light into your home. With this sunlight beam, you get completely natural light in a...

In just a few days, less than a week actually, a few avid gamers will finally be able to see for themselves what all the fuss around game streaming is about. Or at least Google’s brand of game streaming, which is essen...

Well, in what could be yet another seal of the apocalypse melting down and sloughing off like skin at Chernobyl, Arizona Representative Paul Gosar meticulously inserted a conspiracy theory about late financier and convic...

Google gets a lot of flak when it comes to privacy and monopolistic practices but it remains unchallenged because of the almost indispensable services and products it provides. Google Maps has long changed the way we get...

Nike has decided to end its pilot program with Amazon, the company has announced, but its products will remain for sale on the platform through third-party sellers. Nike launched its pilot program in 2017; under it, the ...

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Raytheon has announced that it is working with DARPA on a project for detecting buried explosives using a unique method: bacteria. The work is taking place under a contract from the agency; Worcester Polytechnic Institut...

With winter comes changes, many of which are bad. The days get darker sooner. Christmas carols play everywhere. Sure, there are good things about winter, but at least for me, it's particularly hard to find joy in the ear...

The second season of Castle Rock is past its halfway point and things are starting to get awfully tense in Stephen King's fabled Maine town, with a big assist from nearby Jerusalem's Lot. Things are only going to get wei...

At a House hearing held yesterday in Washington D.C., members of Congress and space experts voiced serious concerns about NASA's current plan to send American men and women to the Moon in just five years.

It was a given that we’d hear more about Project xCloud during X019, and sure enough, Microsoft took some time during today’s episode of Inside Xbox to give us an update on the service. First and foremost, Microsoft ...

New game announcements from Obsidian, Rare, and Dontnod highlighted Microsoft's Inside Xbox presentation at X019, the company's annual fan festival taking place in London this weekend. It also showed several updates and ...

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After it popped up in the Microsoft Store perhaps a little earlier than intended, twin-stick shooter West of Dead is available in open beta on Xbox One. You'll play as the Ghost Rider-esque William Mason, who's voiced by...

Public housing is home to 2 million people in the U.S. and a $70 billion backlog in repairs. It's also largely an afterthought in American society, a place where people with seemingly nowhere else to go end up tucked awa...

This holiday season, Microsoft really wants you to sign up for its monthly Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. To start, for a limited time you can once again get the first three months of the service, which bu...

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