Category: Tech news

Plus: GM tests self-driving cars in NYC, LA asks Uber for transit help, and Singapore says no more cars.

One of these sparks is not like the other.

Now that your camera is the most important thing in your phone, camera-rating company DxOMark decides which one is best.

Made by English company Amalgam, the miniature engine has over 1,000 parts—too bad none of them move.

Twitter will bar ads from Russia Today and Sputnik, ahead of congressional hearings into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

As more people talk, play, and work through the lens of their smartphone, Google’s trying to finish what it started with Google Goggles.

After torrenting’s long fade,”fully loaded” Kodi boxes became the pirate’s method of choice. Now, a legal crackdown looks to stop its rise.

The nastier the conditions, the better the learning.

What happens when you stream a post-show discussion like it’s just another all-at-once series? Netflix is about to find out.

News that Cambridge Analytica CEO sought Wikileaks help on Clinton emails amplifies questions about firm’s role in Trump campaign.

If you’re an Apple fan, you’re probably hemming and hawing between the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. Here’s why.

One author of a new paper on artificial intelligence is a 17-year-old high school senior.

 My five-year-old MacBook Pro finally gave up the ghost. After traveling the world and surviving several CESes, it was time to finally lay the thing to rest. I had some misgivings about replacing the old workhorse with one of the new models, not the least of which was the company’s fairly unpopular decision to ditch all existing ports for a quartet of ThunderBolt 3 ports. Read More

 Translation earbuds might eliminate some utilitarian reasons to know a language, but if you want to understand jokes, read poetry, or fall in love in a foreign tongue, you’ll have to actually learn it. Unfortunately, products like Rosetta Stone leave people feeling burned after claiming the process should be easy while never helping you practice talking with a real native speaker. You… Read More

 As Facebook finds itself publicly on the hook for enabling Russian agents to spread divisive propaganda via its platform, be it in the form of fake news, ‘dark ads’, issue pushing Facebook pages, and even political rallies organized using its Event tools, there’s another side to the story of how tech tools are impacting the democratic process currently playing out in… Read More