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Most of us cant wait for 2016 to end, and researchers at Microsoft are giving us good reason to think ahead. The company polled 17 women working in its research organization about the technology...

Artificial intelligence got a big push today as both Google and OpenAI announced plans to open-source their deep learning code. Elon Musk's OpenAI released Universe, a software platform that "lets us train a single [AI] agent on any task a human

MakerBot made a bold bet that 3D printers would become as common as microwaves. Just one problem: no one else shared that dream.

Cloudflare has been noticing an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) traffic that began on November 23, the day before the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend kicked off. The post Cloudflare is fighting off a DDoS attack that started the day

The idea of creating robots that can understand, compute and respond to human emotions has been explored in movies for decades. However, a common..

People who spent more time outdoors when they were between the ages 14 and 29 years had reduced risk for nearsightedness. How does sunlight help ward off the condition also known as myopia?

The Presidents Strategic and Policy Forum is a bipartisan mix of business executives drawn from the worlds of finance, media and manufacturing. The anti-American tech worker CEO traitors are notably absent.

President-elect Donald Trump has a long history on Twitter. In the past, his tweets were rather harmless and at times humorous. Since the start of the election, he’s used Twitter to his advantage by rallying his supporters and spreading his message.

In a move that has sparked outrage from users, the CEO of Reddit has now pledged to suppress certain pro-Trump posts.

With its new DirecTV Now streaming service, AT&T is coming after cheapskate cordcutters in a real way. The service launches tomorrow, and for an introductory period, it will offer more than 100 streaming channels for $35 a month. But is it a good deal? W

We believe over the next 12 months, billions of mobile messenger users will become prolific consumers of games and apps using HTML5 and messenger bots. This has the potential to be the most important and lucrative platform ever made available to developer

Reddits CEO Steve Huffman has been caught editing comments of users of the infamous pro-Trump subreddit The_Donald. For a site which prides itself on authentic conversation, the ability of site administrators to secretly alter content has drastic implicat

Unveiling a new censorship tool in China could lead to more demands to suppress content from other countries. The fake-news problem, which has hit countries across the globe, has already led some governments to use the issue as an excuse to target sites of political rivals, or shut down social

Facebook is hoping to get a market foothold in China - where it's been blocked since 2009 - with software that censors posts from news feeds in specific geographic regions, the New York Times reported.

Two Chinese firms plan to build a solar power plant in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, which has been off limits since a devastating explosion contaminated the region with deadly radiation in 1986.

Volkswagen cuts 30,000, NetApp, and Marvell also slash jobs. But Tinder is on the hunt in Silicon Valley and Tesla puts out a help-wanted sign in Germany

An Android phone hardened for privacy and security that plays Google at its own game.

Microsoft is planning to support virtual reality experiences for all Windows 10 PCs as part of the Creators Update next year. While HTCs Vive and Oculus Rift use their own custom software,...

802.11af finds a friend D-Link and Redmond have put the paddles on 802.11af, charged the machine, and hit the button.…

The CEO laid out a series of steps the social network is taking to combat misinformation in News Feed.