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When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often "recycle" your old one--assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future o...

It seems that Clubhouse’s time in the limelight is coming to a close. Although its name still has some weight in the social media space, its user base may have started to plateau. After raking in millions of downloads ...

Currently, the default font used by Microsoft is called Calibri. Microsoft wants to move away from that default font, and in an effort to find its new default, has commissioned five new custom fonts. The challenge now is...

Samsung was traditionally the poster child of how not to do Android updates but that seems to be really a thing of the past. It is, of course, trivial to promise updates beyond the customary two-year period but Samsung�...

Epic pays publishers big bucks for PC exclusives and to give away games in its store.

The onslaught against Clubhouse’s probably short-lived dominance continues as more and more social networks start rolling out their own take on social audio spaces. This time it’s Twitter’s turn to join the fray by...

Apple TV+ will soon be home to Amblin Entertainment movie Finch starring Tom Hanks. The company beat out competitors at what was called a ‘very competitive’ auction for the rights to the movie, which was previously k...

An international task force has shut down a large-scale dark web child sexual abuse platform, along with several similarly aligned dark web chat sites. According to an announcement from Germany's Central Office for Comba...

A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the...

Google I/O 2021 is just a couple of weeks away, but in the run-up to its annual developer conference, Google may have just accidentally confirmed the existence of the Pixel Buds A on Twitter.

Incorporating tree nuts like walnuts and cashews into a calorie-deficit diet may help dieters lose weight and keep it off, at least according to a new study from UCLA. The study involved putting two groups of overweight ...

Mere hours before Facebook's Oversight Board announced its ruling as to whether or not it will allow the former president back onto its platform, Trump seized the initiative and unveiled a brand new communications platfo...

Google inadvertently revealed a new set of Pixel Buds that are coming soon.

Apple’s recently-released iPhone and iPad update doesn’t just fix a privacy bug, but patch two significant security issues which the Cupertino firm says may have already been exploited in the wild. The company’s ad...

As part of DC's new Infinite Frontier relaunch--meant to build on the foundation laid by its Death Metal and Future State titles--the comic publisher's set to put out a new miniseries. It kicked off with the massive Infi...

The UK’s Royal Marines recently demonstrated the use of a jet suit that enabled them to fly one-by-one from an inflatable boat over the ocean to a massive navy ship. The exercise was a demonstration of Gravity Industri...

At the end of April, the Twitter account for Eversource, the biggest utility in New England, posted an upbeat video on the utility's clean energy goals full of rich stock footage of windmills and solar panels and set to ...

Access Now, along with several other groups and a collection of more than 180 musicians, are asking the company to publicly commit to never using, licensing, selling or monetizing the system it patented.

It's always a sad day in Androidland when a popular smartphone officially reaches its end of life. Samsung will no longer push software updates to its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones.

Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing network – and its social media behemoth own...

Chalk up one more precious thing the pandemic has ruined. On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Education announced that it would no longer allow kids to stay home from school on especially snowy or bad weather day...

Today happens to be Star Wars Day, and while that means sales on games and toys, for Google Stadia users it means a free Star Wars game. Google today announced a new Star Wars-themed addition to the Stadia Pro lineup, wh...