Samsung unveiled new smartphones with largely unchanged designs and incremental improvements such as a better camera — accompanied by a second annual price increase for many customers. The static design of the new Galaxy S9 underscores both the slowing pace of smartphone innovation and the extent to which other manufacturers, particularly Apple, have caught up […]

One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead. And in what could be a new wrinkle, a service by Uber called Express Pool […]

Google Assistant is about to give the term multilingual a whole new meaning. In a few months the tech giant’s digital assistant will be able to help a broader range of people around the world by learning new languages, the company announced Friday. “Android users are all around the world, so from the start, our goal has been to […]

Forget about “Pong” — Atari’s next big move is into an entirely new industry: cryptocurrency. Atari SA, the French holding company that now oversees all “Atari” properties, announced earlier this month that it’s working on a cryptocurrency named “Atari Token.” Moreover, that cryptocurrency is intended for use on a new digital entertainment platform. Atari itself […]

Amazon officially passed Microsoft’s market capitalization last week, and continues to outperform the market at large. Amazon’s cloud-computing business is growing three times faster than Microsoft’s — and the potential market continues to expand. When Amazon came online in 1995 selling books, Microsoft already had two decades of computer-selling experience under its belt. For the next 20 years, despite Amazon’s […]

A LEADING futurologist has revealed the cut-off date for achieving immortality, and we’ve got bad news for anyone born before the year 1970. “IF YOU’RE under 40 reading this article, you’re probably not going to die unless you get a nasty disease.”Those are the words of esteemed futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, who believes humans are […]

With a vast array of apps and online matchmaking services available to the lovelorn, dating in 2018 can turn into something like a daily job. Among the 29 percent of respondents who have used online dating apps or services in a Jan. 18-20 Morning Consult poll of 2,204 U.S. adults, 53 percent say they log into them […]

All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet. A new study from MIT and Microsoft rearchers (pdf) is providing more evidence of exactly how bad facial-recognition software is at accurately identifying darker faces, especially when those faces belong to women. In a test to identify the sex of people […]

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Some might be considering the purchase of a special kind of pleasure-giving device for their partner as a gift. But they might want to rethink those plans: the quality of cybersecurity in newfangled, connected sex toys has been unsurprisingly shocking in recent years. And it doesn’t look to be getting much […]

“Incredible” and “kinetic” are just a few of the loving words that people are using to describe and praise Marvel’s “Black Panther.” The film from director Ryan Coogler had its first screenings Monday night and a premiere in Los Angeles. Official reviews won’t go out until Feb. 6, but audiences at the select screenings were […]

Tis the season of joy, good cheer, and ensuring you have lots of USB cords on hand to charge many new devices. In many ways, the last couple years have been one big watershed moment in advancing sex tech. At the same time, this period has seen the successful launch of an unprecedented number of sex […]

This Sunday will be one of America’s favorite holiday traditions: Super Bowl. As Tom Brady and the New England Patriots look to get the Franchise’s 6th Lombardi Trophy against the Philadelphia Eagles, security will look to do it’s part in making sure the Super Bowl is a safe experience. This year’s big game will take […]