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The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is officially underway in the Senate, and there are a few rules of decorum in place designed to keep senators focused on the historic task at hand. The only beverages allow...

For a number of years – nearly a decade at this point – the only official way to play Tetris on mobile devices has been through one of EA’s apps, namely Tetris (otherwise known as Tetris 2011) and Tetris Blitz. Unf...

The Facebook-created Libra Association is still bleeding members months after it formalized its council. Telecom giant Vodafone has confirmed to CoinDesk that it left the Association. Unlike past defectors, though, it's ...

The United Nations is joining the chorus of those concerned about allegations Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in hacking Jeff Bezos' phone. UN experts have issued a statement calling for an "immediate...

Last week LEGO Education celebrated its 40th birthday with the launch of a new product called Spike Prime, a kit that brings together LEGO bricks smart hubs motors all brought to life by the SPIKE app, Scratch coding and...

Scientists say that the Earth has about 190 major meteor craters on its surface. Despite having so many impact craters, scientists only know the age of a few of them. A team of scientists recently studied the Yarrabubba ...

Verizon has announced a new partnership with Google that has resulted in a special perk for new Verizon Fios Gigabit customers. Starting next week, anyone who signs up for Verizon’s gigabit Internet service will be giv...

People who bought some of Under Armour's fitness devices are learning a hard lesson about the fragility of connected tech. Ars Technica has learned that the athletic wear company is winding down support for its scale, wr...

Google has published three new ‘Experiments’ apps for Android, each designed to improve your life in some way. Two of the three new apps fall under the company’s Digital Wellbeing initiative, offering potential way...

Netflix clearly knows its adaptation of The Witcher is a hot property (shifting metrics aside), and it's determined to milk that success for all it's worth. The service has confirmed rumors that it's working on an anime ...

NASA has revealed the nine finalists in its Mars 2020 rover naming contest. According to the space agency, it received more than 28,000 essays starting on August 28 when the contest went live. More than 4,700 volunteer j...

It isn't hard to understand the calculus behind multiple studios' years-long attempts at turning characters from Valiant's comics universe into the next big-screen draw. Comic book movies can and often do make outrageous...

Like most companies in the tech realm, Twitter is no stranger to weirdly hollow apologies. Some of the company's greatest hits happened when it was grilled on offensive trending topics (whoops!), leaking account info to ...

Rarely has “form follows function” been so fitting as with the Cruise Origin, the autonomous taxi pod that the GM and Honda-backed transportation company revealed this week. It’s a far cry from most of the self-dri...

PGA Tour has announced a new global content deal with Facebook Watch, the social media company’s video streaming platform. PGA Tour describes this as an ‘expansive agreement,’ stating that it will use Facebook Watc...

If you've ever attempted to find something you searched for on Google but didn't save, you know how frustrating that process can be. Google recognizes this, and it's introducing a new AI-powered Search feature that's mea...

Fortnite joined the ranks of official esports league play, sanctioned by the NFHS and CIFSS in association with the group PlayVS. The NFHS is the National Federation of State High School Associations, the nonprofit organ...

As an outbreak of a newly discovered SARS-like virus threatens to spiral out of control in China, some scientists think they've uncovered its animal origins. Their new research suggests the virus is native to snakes.

I certainly wish I'd had one of these when I was a shipfitter.

Microsoft is making good on its promise to expand the Project xCloud preview in 2020 to include more than just three countries. The company has announced that its game streaming test will be available in Canada starting ...

Microsoft's Ninja Theory is developing an experimental new game called Project: Mara that it says will explore "new ways of storytelling" through "a grounded representation of mental terror." We don't know when you'll be...

On the surface, it's easy to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as a rejection of the more subversive elements of The Last Jedi--it re-litigates the origins of our heroes, dredging up a past its predecessor was more th...