Gadget News

The business models of many app stores have come under fire in the past year or so, escalating with Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple. At the heart of the matter is how platform owners are using their position to imple...

The chip shortage has impacted manufacturing operations all around the world. Industries that have been particularly impacted include US-based technology and automotive manufacturers. Automakers, including Ford and other...

The Google Pixel series of phones hasn't really caught the imagination or attracted the sort of sales in the same way that its big-name Android rivals have, but Google actually introduced Android features first on its Pi...

Robots are credited with boosting efficiency in some industrial use cases. But, as a major UK grocery service just found out, that doesn't mean they're notaccident-prone like humans. Ocado -- which competes with Amazon F...

Nintendo is taking Twitter to deny a report that was published last week that claims its profit margin will increase on the Nintendo Switch featuring an OLED screen. The report claimed that Nintendo was increasing the pr...

Here on Earth, mountains get extremely tall, thousands and thousands of feet high. However, new models of neutron stars show that the tallest mountains on these objects are only fractions of millimeters high due to the m...

Smartphones have been using biometric authentication like fingerprints and faces long before those became more common on laptops and even desktops. Microsoft’s Windows Hello framework is its attempt to bring the same m...

A list of more than 50,000 phone numbers and a subsequent investigation has led a consortium of 17 news organizations to believe that NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used to attempt or successfully carry out hacks on the...

Truly Wireless Stereo earbuds are a dime a dozen these days. Some use their brand strength to catch buyers’ attention and money, while others try to come up with gimmicks or feature buzzwords to stand out from the crow...

A team of astrophysicists recently used new models of neutron stars to map the mountains--tiny raised areas--on the stars' otherwise perfectly spherical structures. They found that the greatest deviations were still extr...

Starting today, Snapchat users can enable 3D Bitmoji avatars on their profile, giving them a more polished and dynamic version of the 2D avatars many people use on the platform. The 3D version of Bitmoji supports the sam...

CNN is launching a streaming service, and of course it's called CNN+.

It's summer in Paris, and three besties--Morjana (Samarcande Saadi), Amélie (Mathilde Lamusse), and Bintou (Suzy Bemba)--are lazing through the days, partying with friends, and working on their graffiti murals inside an...

Last Friday, Joe Biden told reporters that Facebook was "killing people" by refusing to take action on a number of anti-vax accounts spreading conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and other misinformation about the novel coronav...

In 2021, nowhere on Earth is safe from searing temperatures--not the Pacific Northwest, nor Siberia, nor, it seems, the UK. The country's Met Office issued its first-ever extreme heat alert Monday to warn residents of te...

If you've been following news of the upcoming Olympics games in Tokyo, you've undoubtedly seen the... unusual beds that this year's competitors are expected to sleep on. The white, boxy frames come courtesy of the Japane...

Recent research from Canada seems to show that wildfires can continue to hurt the lungs of firefighters for years after they've burnt out. The study found that first responders who combated the Fort McMurray wildfire in ...

The next season of Apex Legends is upon us, and with its release comes a new legendary character with a pair of bright, shiny eyeballs. “A woman will rise bearing the mark of the moth,” says the story. “Her firstbo...

Ubisoft is delving deeper into the Clancyverse with Tom Clancy's XDefiant, a free-to-play game it revealed on Monday. The first-person multiplayer shooter will pit teams of six characters (or Defiants) against each other...

When C/2019 Y4 ATLAS fragmented in April 2020, many were dismayed at the loss of what would've been the brightest comet since the 1997 passing of Hale-Bopp. But NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter just fle...

While Tom Clancy fans are going to have to wait until 2022 to get their hands on Rainbow Six Extraction, it seems that Ubisoft will have another Tom Clancy game ready to go in the near future. Today the company announced...

An unprecedented image of a supermassive black hole and its vast extragalactic radio jet has been captured for the first time, raising new questions about our nearest radio galaxy. The heart of Centaurus A – the fifth-...