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Astronomers have spotted an unusually distant star-forming galaxy, the light of which took a whopping 13 billion years to reach Earth. Perhaps most incredibly, however, the galaxy was observed directly, without the help ...

Line Friends, the cute mascots used as stickers in the popular messaging app, are getting their own Netflix series. While the application isn't widely used in the US, it's huge in Japan and other parts of Asia. Brown, Co...

The annual Game Awards are happening tonight, and to celebrate the nominations various Switch games have received, Nintendo has kicked off an eShop sale. This one follows the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale Nintendo h...

A new Fortnite update landed today, bringing the game to version 11.30. Though Epic doesn’t usually publish extensive Fortnite patch notes these days, it did let us know what’s shipping along with this update in part...

Stay cool when things start to heat up with the Cool Human™ Hands-Free Portable Body Cooler. While sweating through your shirt isn't fun, overheating can actually be harmful to your health. Cool Human™ clips right on...

Just in time for the busy holiday travel season, the Google Assistant's real-time Interpreter Mode is getting a critical upgrade as Google begins pushing the feature out to phones worldwide.

System updates are unavoidable in all operating systems and almost all of those require some downtime while updates are installed and the system is reconfigured properly. We are still far from the almost completely seaml...

Battle royale games are no longer limited to guns and brightly colored blocks. Playground Games has announced the upcoming arrival of ‘Eliminator,’ a new battle royale mode in racing game Forza Horizon 4. The mode wa...

It is often said that you get what you pay for but that is also a pretty unfair generalization to make. You will always come across products that turn out to be worth more than twice their price but you will also find so...

Enceladus, the icy white moon covered with bright blue stripes, is home to a massive subsurface ocean that scientists are increasingly interested in exploring. New research out of Carnegie Science details the cause of th...

And consumers in major cities are more likely to take the plunge than others.

YouTube has announced a crackdown targeting harassment on its platform, building upon its existing policies related to problematic videos. Though the company already has policies related to removing content that violated...

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission recently wrapped up its tracking of Phobos, the innermost moon orbiting Mars. Using the spacecraft’s camera, the mission captured images of the oddly shaped moon from ...

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The Federal Trade Commission is considering asking the courts to put a halt to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to merge the technical backends of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram on antitrust grounds, the Wall Stree...

The 2019 Game Awards are slated to go down tonight, and on top of seeing which games from 2019 take home the big prizes, we’re also expecting a number of reveals. It’ll be a big show for one reason or another, and if...

The control Disney has on pop culture right now is so enormous it's kind of terrifying. Marvel's superhero movies and Star Wars are two of--if not the--biggest franchises in the world. Add those to Pixar's beloved librar...

Google Podcasts, the company’s lackluster audio app, has added another feature that brings it closer to competing with the market’s existing dominant products. Users have recently noticed the arrival of a new ‘Reco...

Young climate activists with the Sunrise Movement broke into the national spotlight last year by occupying members of Congress' offices demanding a Green New Deal. Now, they're rolling out their strategy to change who's ...

Lyft's car rental service now exists as more than just an experiment. Rentals are now available for "select users" in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, giving you an option when you'd rather drive yourself. As ...

For years, archaeologists have debated the existence of ancient Egyptian head cones. These objects are portrayed in Egyptian artworks, but not a single one has been found by archaeologists--until now.

The holiday season is often full of sweet treats and other sugary foods, but you may want to avoid them to protect your health, according to a new study from the University of Kansas. People who are prone to depression m...