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Japanese footwear brand Asics turned up at CES 2020 this year with a "prototype" of its first smart running shoe. The as-yet unnamed model harnesses technology made in partnership with Japanese sensor company No New Folk...

I don't use Kakao Talk (mostly because none of my friends do) but I've always appreciated the messaging app's sticker-based characters -- known collectively as Kakao Friends -- which include a mischievous peach, a Jay-Z-...

The Web as a whole has shunned the kinds of ads that pop up in your face but, unfortunately, there are some popups that may be critical to protecting the user. These usually involve asking the user’s permission to use ...

Despite putting in a lot of hours pounding the pavement, I have never been the fastest runner. It's not for lack of trying! I do fartleks, interval runs, tempo runs--you name it. I read an absurd number of articles about...

African grey parrots will help out their friends, even if they won't personally benefit, an adorable new lab experiment shows.

Since Pokémon Go debuted back in 2016, it hasn't been possible to keep all the creatures you collected throughout the various Pokémon titles in one place. They were split between your 3DS and phone, and the problem onl...

We are too glued to our screens and yet almost all the solutions being offered mostly involve quitting cold turkey with a dumber than dumb phone. That may no longer be that practical in this day and age but that doesn’...

Late last month, Uber and Postmates sued California in an attempt to block AB5, the law that would reclassify many gig economy workers as employees. While that fight is not over, Uber is also preparing for the event that...

Scientists have predicted that a pair of stars in our galaxy will collide, producing an explosion that will temporarily become one of the brightest objects in the night sky. They don't know exactly when it will happen, b...

Last year -- following an antitrust ruling by the European Union -- Google announced it would start offering a choice of search providers to Android users. The "choice screen" set to appear on Android devices shipped in ...

If you want to keep your dog around for as long as you can, it’s important you monitor their health and keep them in shape. The Whistle FIT Pet Activity Monitor helps you do just that. Whistle has partnered with Pet In...

If you suffer from dyslexia or know someone who does, you know just how hard it can be to sit down and read a book. But with new research that shows that people with dyslexia have two dominant eyes instead of just one, L...

Given its timing, CES is often an auspicious opportunity for companies to start the year right with their best foot forward. Sometimes, it involves revealing things yet to come while other times it revolves around streng...

It wasn’t that too long ago, in fact just April last year, that the New York City’s transport system started supporting Apple Pay. This was done particularly to push New York’s One Metro New York (ONMY) contactless...

Facebook ostensibly frowns on anti-vaccination ads, but it's apparently letting some promos slide. BuzzFeed News has learned that alternative medicine company Earthley is running Facebook and Instagram ads that point use...

The number of units of a product is an important metric of said product success. When numbers are way higher than analysts predict, companies are more than happy to disclose figures, just like what Huawei did a few month...

A recent post on the FortniteCompetitive subreddit highlights a new exploit that quick-editing players may be able to take advantage of. Unlike some exploits, which have little practical use in gameplay or require compli...

I know I'm not tall enough to dunk in real life, but I never thought I'd be too short to pull off the move in NBA Jam. That is, until Arcade1Up brought a 16-foot NBA Jam arcade cabinet to CES 2020 and proved me dead wron...

Entering into a new decade tends to elicit a bunch of forward-looking thoughts and ambitions from people, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Today he shared his goals not only for the next year, but the next dec...

It's not that Alishba Imran isn't impressed by her tour of Zappos HQ, the Disneyland of corporate campuses, with its "zapponians" who earn "zollars" and play "zing zong" on breaks. But she might not see herself working a...

Coming into this season of Short Treks, "Children of Mars" was teased as one of two precursors to the events of Star Trek: Picard. It is not a factual indicator of what's to come, or some grand, necessary setup for the p...