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Google has announced the arrival of an important feature in Google Maps for iOS, mirroring the same feature already made available to Android users: Incognito mode. With this, Google Maps users can bar the app from remem...

So what is there to do after you win a defamation lawsuit? If you're Elon Musk, apparently ride down the 405 in an electric pickup truck. Many people spotted the Tesla Cybertruck riding around Los Angeles this weekend, w...

After months of thinking, curating, photographing, more thinking, we've come up with a holiday gift guide that covers all the bases (and budgets), from laptops and mobile devices, to toys, to the smart home, to book and ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. The technique makes it possible to store data in all manner of objects, including shirt buttons, water bottles...

In the smart lighting space, vintage-style filaments are fully on trend for 2020, and just about every vendor seems to be releasing bulbs with visible, elongated LEDs that approximate the look of an old-time Edison bulb....

Gleaning energy while backpacking has never been efficient, but the concept design The North Face SunUp Solar Backpack would make it so. This articulating solar backpack combines amorphous panels with rigid ones on the t...

Google has put the nail in the coffin of its expensive and short-lived Google Glasses experiment but the dream of AR spectacles never truly died. It’s just that pulling off one that balances comfort, portability, and p...

With Daydream VR platform practically dead (except as an open source project) some may have been left wondering if Google has given up on the entire mixed reality venture. Especially since the last major updated to its p...

The ability to forward emails is a useful way to avoid the cumbersome task of copying and pasting, but too many forwards can quickly make a mess of things, making it difficult to keep track of which message went where an...

Google has introduced a solution for those times when you have to forward several separate emails to the same people. A new Gmail feature gives you a way to attach emails to a new email without even having to download or...

According to a report from TechCrunch, an online company that allows people in the US to obtain a copy of their birth certificate has exposed more than 752,000 applications. The case of negligence was discovered by Fidus...

At 8:01 p.m. on October 10, 2018, a bolt of lightning flashed inside of a storm cloud just east of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The International Space Station was passing overhead at the time, and a suite of instr...

Walmart is about to experiment with autonomous grocery delivery in a big way. The big-box retailer is launching a pilot program in Houston that will use Nuro's self-driving R1 vehicle to shuttle food from "select" stores...

Since its publication almost 20 years ago, Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has been flirting with Hollywood. Numerous stars, directors, producers, and other sho...

The Green New Deal is a massive proposal that aims to take on the climate crisis--the greatest threat humanity has ever faced--while creating millions of jobs and boosting economic equality. That's going to take plans fo...

Every Christmas since I was young, my mom has given me a pair of socks. As a child, I didn't appreciate the value of receiving a gift I actually needed, but now, as a broke twenty-something, socks are all I want. I'm a f...

As promised, today Nintendo debuted a new Indie World Showcase for the Nintendo Switch. The 20-minute presentation showed us a number of games that are coming to the Switch next year (along with a couple that are availab...

Waze, the navigation app owned by Google, is popular due in part to its report functionality, which enables drivers to submit reports that help other drivers avoid various issues on the road. The latest update to this fe...

Netflix had a lot riding on The Irishman -- the Martin Scorsese crime saga starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. The film has been in the works for almost a decade, and Netflix, which reportedly invested as m...

Today Apple released a set of videos about their also-newly-released Mac Pro. This is the Mac Pro for late-2019, revealed back in June of 2019. The focus of the most interesting of these videos is the “plug-and-play Ma...

Smart glasses may be on the horizon, but if they’re not going to be chunky, oversized frames you’d never want to wear every day then micro-display technology needs to catch up. That’s what Bosch is promising with i...

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