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The Secret Service paid a private company for access to location data generated by common smartphone apps, Motherboard reports. Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that th...

With professional leagues like the NBA and MLB returning to action after the coronavirus pandemic sidelined them earlier in the year, Spotify is debuting a new playlist to help you get your daily sports fix. Like the Dai...

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Instagram’s inevitable absorption into Facebook continues, with users beginning to see notifications that Instagram messaging is now merging with Facebook Messenger. It’s the latest step in a strategy Facebook CEO Ma...

Chances are, you rely on your smartphone an awful lot--so what would happen if it fell off a cliff or down a well? What would you do if you left it in a different country or it got lifted out of your pocket? You should a...

While the main draw of any Nintendo console will undoubtedly be Nintendo’s first-party games, the Switch has also become a good indie machine too. Nintendo knows this, as it’s been periodically showcasing indie games...

The US government isn't done attempting to block Huawei. Today, the US Commerce Department announced that it's expanding trade restrictions meant to prevent Huawei from obtaining semiconductors without a special license,...

California had itself a weekend of rolling blackouts, freak thunderstorms, and a fire-induced tornado. But the state had to go and do one more wild thing: set the record for hottest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth...

Xe LP graphics in Tiger Lake laptops are only the first part of the story.

It's no secret that laptops have been hot commodities for students during the pandemic, but that might just lead to a crisis as school resumes. Axios has found evidence of acute laptop shortages going into the back-to-sc...

We’ve all seen videos and pictures of avalanches, at least ones that happen on Earth. Though they happen in many places, they’re all the same: huge amounts of some material breaks free from a tall structure, causing ...

In a match made in indie heaven, the independent production house behind movies like Blindspotting and Little Monsters has acquired the movie and TV rights to 2016's Firewatch (via The Hollywood Reporter). This is the se...

The Accutron--the world's first electronic watch--is back. Sort of. The new Spaceview 2020 relies on a similar movement and that original 1960s design, but packs in a few welcome modern features.

Today the Apple vs Epic Games war is ramping up a bit, with Epic claiming that Apple is about to ban Unreal Engine from all Apple platforms. Epic broke Apple’s rules by placing in-app purchases in their game Fortnite, ...

In all the talk about TikTok collecting the data of Americans and sending it to the Chinese government, we've often overlooked the broader issue of data brokers collecting the data of Americans and sending it god-knows-w...

Because this is the year when things continually go from bad to worse to even worse, the Trump administration approved an oil leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

The most popular class of painkillers in the United States may put users at risk of deafness, particularly if they use these prescriptions on a regular basis, according to a new study from Rutgers University. Commonly pr...

According to an announcement via the Epic Games Newsroom Twitter account, Apple will terminate all of Epic's developer accounts and cut the company off from iOS and Mac development tools, effective Friday August 28, 2020...

Preliminary research out this week found that patients taking opioids for chronic pain can produce antibodies to the drugs, which could help explain some of the side-effects of long-term opioid use; these antibodies may ...

If your child's school is lucky enough to have the funding, they probably have enough laptops to give one to every student as long as remote learning is the new normal. If not, you might have had one hell of a time tryin...

When Hitman 3 comes out next year, you'll have a variety of ways to play through Agent 47's latest adventure. They'll be a new campaign that will wrap up the franchise's current story arc, which started with 2016's Hitma...

The Samsung Galaxy A51 isn’t the device most people think of when they think of the most popular phones on earth. The Samsung Galaxy S20 is the newest line of top-tier phones from Samsung, and the next Galaxy Note is r...