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Four years in the making, a pragmatic mission concept for an interstellar probe would go beyond the Voyager Interstellar Mission, in which two spacecraft left Earth in the 1970s and are now the most distant human-made ob...

If you haven't already, you should update your Mac right now. A recently patched zero-day vulnerability in macOS operating systems has been allowing hackers to bypass much of Apple's security protocols and deploy malware...

Hackers with the Babuk Locker ransomware gang claim to have stolen 250GB of sensitive internal documents belonging to the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, and are now extorting the public agency for an u...

The success of Godzilla vs. Kong has suddenly made Adam Wingard one of the most important figures in Legendary's future plans for its giant monster movieverse. But the in-demand director's next potential project in the s...

At approximately 2:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, a ray of light illuminated my personal wrinkle of our ongoing global nightmare: I got my second shot. What followed was roughly 48 hours of debilitating side effects--a conseque...

Although it was one of the first on the mobile AR train with Project Tango, some may have felt that Google dropped the ball on that area. Professing more interest in AR than VR, Apple has been promoting the practical app...

BuzzFeed has posted the entirety of internal Facebook documents outlining in detail the results of the company's investigation into its role in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, during and after which at least five people...

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has backtracked on legislation plans that would have allowed tech companies to form autonomous "Innovation Zones" anywhere in the state, reports The Nevada Independent. Instead of allowing c...

UMN researchers probed for weaknesses in patch approval--Greg K-H wasn't amused.

One thing we've learned over the past year: the COVID-19 pandemic has been awful for humanity, but a boon to all of the tech company's we're relying on. That's truer than ever for Microsoft, which announced a 19 percent ...

Spotify has built itself up as a substantial podcast platform and now is back with the latest evolution in this effort: paid podcast subscriptions. The company announced the new platform today, stating that podcast creat...

A new study is alerting people who take a common drug for Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) that their body’s response to the first COVID-19 vaccine dose may be lower than expected. The issue was observed in people taking ...

MSCHF, the Brooklyn-based art collective you might remember from the recent Satanic Shoes debacle featuring Lil Nas X, has a new pitch for you: trade in your digital cookies for real ones.

Google parent Alphabet reported today that it raked in a total of $55.3 billion in revenue over the past three months -- that's up 34 percent compared to this time last year. (In case you were curious, Wall Street types ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relaxing its guidelines around wearing masks during the pandemic. On Tuesday, it announced that people fully vaccinated against covid-19 should feel safe and free to not ...

Our minds were blown back in 2012 when researchers at MIT demonstrated a new coating that let ketchup slide right out of a bottle with ease. Nine years later, the technology, known as LiquiGlide, is about to make it incr...

Huawei’s fall from the world’s top 5 smartphone vendors naturally didn’t go unnoticed. Shoved out of networking infrastructure, especially 5G, in many countries, the company also found itself struggling in the smar...

Before smartwatches became the portable health labs that they are today, smartphones were the ones that bore some of the sensors and algorithms needed for checking one’s health. Samsung’s phones, in particular, once ...

Roku is publicly duking it out with Google, a feud that could see the YouTube TV live television app disappear from the streaming platform.

And it's bringing its modern gothic-punk TTRPG friends in the World of Darkness along for the ride, too.

Before 2021 reaches its end, Pfizer may release a pill that can treat early-stage COVID-19 infections at home, according to the company’s CEO. The drug will be designed to inhibit the enzyme SARS-CoV-2 needs to infiltr...

Spotify has officially announced its rumored paid subscription platform for podcast creators, and the company appears to be asking for a much smaller cut of profits than Apple from creators who use its service.