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Facebook’s experimental products team has published a new mobile app called CatchUp that is similar to Messenger, only it is dedicated to voice calls. CatchUp builds upon traditional voice calling to add more modern fe...

Twitter quietly added fact-check links to two of Donald Trump's tweets last night, and the president responded with the only way he knows how: nuke! the! site!

Astronomers were abuzz last week following the discovery of an active asteroid in Jupiter's orbit, in what was thought to be a new type of celestial object. Follow-up investigations have revealed it to be a regular comet...

Astronomers have found a pair of objects that have been added to a strange object discovered in 2018 that combined to constitute a new class of cosmic explosions. The new type of explosion shares some of the characterist...

Tesla has quietly reduced its electric vehicles' prices by thousands of dollars in North America and will also do the same in China, according to Reuters and Electrek. As the publications note, the automaker has cut pric...

Twitter, amid a controversy over its inaction on Donald Trump's baseless tweets asserting that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is a murderer, has for the first time begun attaching fact-checking links to some of the president...

With its COVID-19 outbreak seemingly contained, South Korea may offer the rest of the world a glimpse of what society could look like after the pandemic ends -- and it may include robotic baristas. According to Reuters, ...

A little more than a year ago, Google revealed plans to bring one-click subscriptions to its Android TV platform. The feature has been missing in the long months since then, something that has finally changed in a small ...

Apple is trying to squeeze more long-term usefulness out of your MacBook's battery, much like it has with iPhones for a while. It just released a macOS Catalina 10.15.5 update (via 9to5Mac) whose centerpiece battery heal...

Google is joining other companies is planning for a return to the office as COVID-19 cases decline, but its strategy may be more elaborate than most. Company chief Sundar Pichai has outlined a roadmap that will still hav...

ViacomCBS has announced that it is selling reusable cloth face masks with various designs inspired by its popular shows, including Star Trek. The masks will be made available through retailers around the world in additio...

New Zealand continues to be one of the few success stories during the covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, health officials announced that the country's sole remaining patient hospitalized with covid-19 was discharged. The g...

If there's one thing Apple prides itself on, it's design. (The company even published a $300 coffee table book about how iconic its products look.) But while they certainly are distinctive, whether you like these designs...

Ever since launching earlier in the year, NVIDIA GeForce Now has seen a number of developers remove their games from the streaming service. GeForce Now isn’t like a traditional streaming service where users pay a month...

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington dismissed a lawsuit that claimed major tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple worked together to "intentionally and willfully suppress politically con...

Twitter's decision to fact check Donald Trump has resulted in has resulted in mass harassment of one of its employees -- even though Twitter says the choice was made by a group, not one individual. When Twitter opted to ...

Today the SpaceX/NASA launch was scrubbed due to imperfect atmospheric conditions. This was expected partway through the day due to inclement weather – and the appearance of a tornado in the area. NASA reported that, h...

When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth, it struck at an angle that maximized its destructive potential, according to new computer simulations of the catastrophic event.

Since the beginning, Quibi has been adamant that its streaming video service is a mobile-first endeavor. However, after launching right as The Pandemic was gaining steam--which made the idea of watching short videos on a...

Regardless of his motives, knowledge of the subject, or consideration of the national security implications involved, President Trump on Wednesday elevated his position on Americans' privacy rights above that of the Demo...

If you're on the hunt for a new smartphone right now and you're not inclined towards an iPhone, then that means you're probably looking at an Android handset.

Amazon Studios is developing a new show based on Lisbeth Salander, the main character in the novels by author Steig Larsson. The series is called Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but won’t mirror the movies released over s...