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The Trump administration is reportedly exploring ways to use Americans’ smartphone location data to track the coronavirus outbreak. Sources claim the administration has been in talks with some major tech and telecom co...

Two U.S. Navy hospital ships Donald Trump said are in "tip top shape" and would be deployed "in the next week or so" to assist the response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic are actually undergoing maintenance and are ...

Down Time is a Jezebel series in which we ask our favorite artists and authors what art, books, and activities they're turning to in this moment of isolation and uncertainty. First up is Jenny Odell, artist and author of...

You haven't seen much ray tracing in games due in part to the limited frameworks for it. Outside of Microsoft's DirectX, creators have usually had to lean on proprietary approaches. Soon, though, it might be relatively u...

Twitter is ramping up its policies against coronavirus misinformation. The company will ban tweets perpetuating claims of fake cures and other specific information that could incite panic or harm official efforts to figh...

BMW's next-generation Series 7 luxury sedan models will include an ell-electric version, according to Autocar. The automaker has announced at a press conference that the next 7 Series vehicles will come in four versions:...

NASA and SpaceX are still planning on conducting the first manned commercial crew program launch to space as early as May, indicating that the timetable for the mission has not shifted despite the ongoing coronavirus pan...

Slack has unveiled a major redesign that simplifies the entire system while keeping users organized and helping them get their daily work done. The company is rolling out the new design over the next several weeks, accor...

We often hear about tech stores being closed in countries like China and Italy because of the widespread cases of confirmed COVID-19 infections there. It was really only a matter of time before such scenarios reach the U...

Research institutions around the United States and abroad are reacting to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic by moving classes online, sending students and researchers home, and in some cases, closing labs. Among these var...

It's hard to like most of the new layout--but having a dark mode is nice.

Wide swaths of the Bay Area have been under semi-lockdown since Tuesday when seven counties issued shelter in place orders, barring residents from travel unless in need of essential supplies and effectively shuttering ma...

Alright, I've got about 40 minutes until my next virtual meeting so let's make this a quick one.

Workstations, battlestations, command centers, whatever you want to call them, with so many people stuck indoors while trying to avoid covid-19, home computer setups have recently become an incredibly hot topic.

As many of us are being to self-isolate as much as possible in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak, that means we need to turn to the entertainment options we have at home. Thankfully, living in the digital age means that ...

Days after its initial announcement, CVS has revealed that it is launching COVID-19 testing sites in the state of Massachusetts. The testing sites will be located at CVS facilities in the state where ‘a limited populat...

Earlier this year, Essential, Android creator Andy Rubin's once high-profile phone startup, shut down. Besides Project Gem, a concept device it teased late last year, the company had released only one phone: the striking...

When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth some 66 million years ago, it triggered an "impact winter" that extinguished over 75 percent of all species on Earth. New research suggests it was the resulting low light, and no...

While Amazon has banned more than a million fraudulent products claiming to cure or protect customers from the coronavirus, Gizmodo found that third-party vendors continue to use fake reviews, bot farms, and other decept...

More efforts are underway to bring ray traced visuals to more of your games. Microsoft has introduced a DirectX 12 Ultimate framework that makes ray tracing and other visual effects both more efficient and more flexible....

While we all have tech-based privacy intrusions to deal with on a daily basis, Hong Kong residents are seeing that taken up to a new level thanks to the coronavirus's spread--and it's only getting worse.

The desktop dark mode Facebook first announced last year is now available to the majority of its users, the company has announced. You won’t see the dark mode when you sign in today — rather, you must opt into the ne...