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A non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis (“marijuana”) may work as well as a ‘powerful antibiotic’ in treating Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as MRSA. The discovery comes amid the growing problem...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn't have many fans among open internet advocates. His decision in the 2005 Brand X broadband case let the FCC classify internet service any way it liked as long as there was a ju...

If you use Instagram on your Windows 10 PC, you may notice a subtle change the next time you open the app. Instagram has updated its Windows software to make it into something called a progressive web app (PWA). What thi...

Of the three new smartphones it unveiled, the Galaxy S20 Ultra is arguably Samsung’s favorite. It is the one that has the most features and the highest specs and, naturally, comes with the highest price tag. Given all ...

A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in Africa for an experimental malaria vaccine without acquiring the informed consent of participants. Experts ar...

Scientists say they've for the first time conducted an extensive analysis of the bacteria that live in the human vagina. And they seem to have found plenty of surprises.

In June of last year the world was introduced to the Raspberry Pi 4: a tiny computer with an even smaller price tag that could run a full desktop operating system making it useful for more than just hacks and homebrew pr...

When we think about companies "harvesting our data," chances are we're thinking of The Big Tech Names doing that harvesting. But sometimes, even these companies get taken for a bit of a ride. Case in point: earlier today...

Facebook has filed a federal lawsuit against a company called OneAudience, accusing it of stealing the personal information of its users. According to Facebook's announcement, OneAudience paid third-party developers to i...

Frederick Brennan, the founder of the fringe 8chan discussion board that disbanded after users on its far-right /pol/ subforum were linked to multiple mass shootings, could face arrest in the Philippines thanks to crimin...

The hits just keep on coming for GDC 2020. Earlier today, Unity Technologies announced that it would be skipping the show, which is scheduled to happen from March 16th to the 20th. Just a short time after Unity made its ...

The spread of coronavirus is prompting companies to cancel nonessential travel. That includes trade shows like the smartphone-centric Mobile World Congress, which was scheduled to be held in Barcelona this week but was c...

$35 originally got you 1GB of memory, while 2GB was $45.

New research out of Canada highlights the link between poor diet and higher odds of experiencing anxiety. The work involved the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, which revealed that people who ate less than three dif...

Earlier this week, the developer behind Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios, invited press to watch hours of gameplay in which a developer died over and over again in the difficult isometric RPG based on Dungeons and Dragons...

Earlier today we saw some analysis done on sales of smartphone units in the year 2019 from the company called Counterpoint. We learned that the iPhone XR dominated the globe, followed by the iPhone 11 and a few Samsung G...

The FCC has warned phone carriers that they broke the law by selling location data, and it might soon make those companies pay the price. Wall Street Journal sources say the FCC hopes to levy "hundreds of millions of dol...

The Clone Wars is back, which can only mean a few things: One, some of our favorite Star Wars characters in the galaxy have returned. Two? It's all about to end rather tragically for most of them. But Rex and Ahsoka will...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to seek a total of at least $200 million in fines from cellphone carriers accused of illegally sharing the location data of their customers, Gizmodo has learned.

Walmart is gearing up to take on Amazon in a very big way, a new report claims, and it may involve special perks that the Internet retailer is unable to offer. The report alleges that Walmart will soon start testing its ...

The rising tide of novel coronavirus (COVID19) fear is generating an interesting effect on investor dollars. Where this week we’ve already seen major dips in oil prices* and the DOW Jones Industrial Average*, your aver...

When they came out last year, the Bose Frames were an interesting, albeit unfinished showcase of what a company could do by fusing together smartglasses and headphones. We didn't think Bose's experiment was a consistent ...