Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade policies have been controversial, but one woman managed to hold the company accountable for issues associated with the process. A $10,000 judgment won't hurt the company financially, but could it serve as a wake-up call? | Continue reading
Apple has confirmed that its discontinuing its Thunderbolt display -- but without saying anything about a replacement or any future models. Customers are explicitly advised to seek out third-party vendors. | Continue reading
Ford UK test monitors acceleration, braking, steering to track how well drivers drive on the street and in a driving simulator. It even tracks driver emotions via brainwaves. | Continue reading
Despite its distance from the sun, there may still be a liquid ocean beneath Pluto's icy surface. | Continue reading
Russian researchers have scaled yet another long-ballyhooed wall for quantum science, letting us measure distance more precisely than ever before. | Continue reading
Apple decrypted the iOS kernel in its recent beta builds on purpose -- supposedly to improve performance, but security may have been a larger motive. | Continue reading
Google has created a set of AI rules and patterns designed to avoid unforeseen problems and consequences -- some of which were on display in the recent Boston Dynamics demo of its 55-65lb SpotMini. | Continue reading
Microsoft has a new Windows 10 feature in the works -- one that'll tie your license and product key information to your Microsoft account. In theory, this could make swapping hardware or reinstalling the OS simpler. | Continue reading
During last week's E3 extravaganza, Nintendo finally dove deep on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The upcoming installment in the 30-year-old franchise rejects much of Nintendo's recent history, and embraces a massive scope with complex gameplay systems. | Continue reading
Tesla stock took a 10% hit after the proposed purchase of SolarCity, whose shares gained 15%. But Tesla is 10 times the size of SolarCity, and Elon Musk holds about 25% of the shares in both. | Continue reading
Need an affordable PC that won't take up much space? Dell is currently selling the dual-core Inspiron Small 3000 desktop PC for 17% off. With a Skylake CPU, a streamlined design, and tiny price tag, this tower is a perfect fit for everyday computing needs. | Continue reading
Another much-anticipated Kickstarter title goes down in mediocre defeat. Mighty No. 9 is neither particularly mighty nor the Mega Man spiritual sequel fans had hoped for. | Continue reading
The Arecibo telescope has been a landmark observatory for 50 years, but limited funding could see the facility shut down in the near future. | Continue reading
You might like to think you can make yourself smarter, and that's the basis of the $1 billion brain training industry. It's looking like it's all nonsense, though. | Continue reading
BMW's Second Life program finds a home for used (but not dead) BMW i3 batteries. Each module powers an American house for about a day. | Continue reading
More supercomputer news this week: The US is responding to China's new Sunway TiahuLight system that was announced Monday, and fast. | Continue reading
Redmond is claiming that Edge can deliver up to 70% more battery life than Google Chrome -- and while obviously biased, Microsoft may be right. | Continue reading
Multi-factor authentication is an important part of keeping your online accounts secure, but the process is notoriously cumbersome. Google is attempting to streamline the task by allowing you to authenticate with a tap on your smartphone. | Continue reading
Nissan confirms its 200-mile EV: the 2018 Nissan Leaf. It arrives late this year with a 60-kWh battery. Cost-conscious buyers should be able to get 100-mile Leafs with small battery packs. | Continue reading
Trends toward automation have never resulted in the employment doomsday many have feared, but is the coming invasion of robots going to be different? | Continue reading
Until now, position tracking -- the ability to move around in a VR experience -- has been limited to high-end headsets coupled with fixed beacons or sensors. Stereolabs is aiming to change that. | Continue reading
If you have any nostalgia at all for interactive fiction, Hadean Lands is certainly worth your time and money. | Continue reading
With the latest update to Creative Cloud, Adobe has added Content-aware crop, Face-recognition for Liquify, VR support, as well as enhanced Adobe Stock integration and some other goodies | Continue reading
Machines can now read your brain, they're just not very good at it yet. | Continue reading
For its latest trick: The Tesla Model S floats and the spinning wheels provide propulsion. The battery compartment is very well sealed, as is the rest of the car, says Elon Musk. | Continue reading
Browsing the latest developments in machine learning, power electronics, and sensor, we can catch a glimpse of the kind of robotic butler that will be serving us breakfast in the decades to come. | Continue reading
The Sunway TaihuLight is now the fastest system in the world, according to the twice-per-year TOP500 list, with a stunning Linpack benchmark result of 93 petaflops. | Continue reading
Unlike its competitors, Nintendo doesn't yet see a reason to invest in VR -- not until the technology is ready for mainstream adoption. | Continue reading
Asus and MSI have been caught shipping cards to reviewers with slightly higher clocks by default than they're shipping to retail customers. While the gap is minor, it's not something we approve of on principle. | Continue reading
Plume pods plug into your wall outlets and form an instant mesh network for a lot less than other solutions. | Continue reading
The Mini of 2040-2050 is shared among multiple users. It's self-driving. It can be driven. A compact electric drivetrain might even get it back to the 1959 Mini's length: 10 feet. | Continue reading
Facebook is introducing a new advertising tracking system that will guide users to local stores to buy the products they want -- and report aggregate shopping information to the advertisers on whether or not their ads created increased foot traffic. | Continue reading
In the market for a high-end curved UHDTV? Today, Dell is selling the 65-inch LG 65EG9600 curved OLED UHDTV at a $3500 discount. With 3D support, access to countless streaming apps with webOS, and top-notch picture quality, this exceptional UHDTV is hard to beat with a price this … | Continue reading
After five years in transit, NASA's Juno space craft will enter orbit of the solar system's largest planet in just a few weeks. | Continue reading
Rolls-Royce imagines the future car for the powerful and affluent: zero emissions, fully self-driving (no steering wheel), a single sofa seat of the finest silk, and ivory wool carpet. Remember to wipe your feet. | Continue reading
Nvidia's older Maxwell cards are seeing huge price cuts -- but is that enough to make them a good buy with the 1070 and 1080 already on the market? | Continue reading
The new Bluetooth 5 standard is expected to be released this year, with vastly improved range, performance, and total broadcast capability. | Continue reading
A new report is claiming that the majority of Intel x86 processors contain a potentially devastating security flaw -- but is it true? | Continue reading
From Mass Effect: Andromeda to Gravity Rush 2 to We Happy Few, there were enough games packed into the LA Convention Center to fill hundreds of articles. But as E3 2016 draws to a close, we want to take this opportunity to highlight the ten best games of the show. | Continue reading
The gravitational wave observatory LIGO has returned its second set of results, featuring two light-weight black holes perfect for making detectable gravitational waves. | Continue reading
Nvidia's GTX 1080 and 1070 launched to much fanfare over the past six weeks, but availability is currently extremely limited and prices are running well above Nvidia's own recommendations. | Continue reading
New rumors suggest that AMD's top-end Zen server chips will pack an enormous amount of potential performance, as AMD aims to regain lost market share in the server space. | Continue reading
Oculus is taking heat for its attempts to create exclusives for the Rift -- and it's rewriting perceived history about its own plans for interoperability. | Continue reading
Microsoft scientists have come out with a demo showing that, by analyzing Bing search queries, they may be able to identify people with pancreatic cancer, even before the querent has been diagnosed with the disease. | Continue reading
A number of incoming cures for hemophilia are notable precisely because they're so mundane -- this is the sort of breakthrough we can expect to see again, and again, and again in the near future. | Continue reading
For a limited time, Dell is offering up a massive discount on the Inspiron 3650 desktop PC. Use today's coupon, and you'll snag this powerful quad-core tower PC for 47% off the sticker price. | Continue reading
Camodia's Angkor Wat is one of the ancient wonders of the world, but what lay beyond the stone walls of it and surrounding temples has long been a mystery. Now scientists are using lidar to uncover the secrets of the Khmer kingdom. | Continue reading
A new UK-based service is offering to hook landlords and eventually, employers, up with comprehensive scores on potential renters and employees -- based, in part, on requiring said individuals to hand over their social media account credentials for scraping and processing. | Continue reading