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Future swarms could face decoy pheromones, genetic manipulation, blocking chemicals.

Suit claims woman-focused social platform discriminates against female employees.

From backward compatibility to “optimized” upgrade plans, it’s all explained here.

Advance could pave way for industrial-scale inkjet printing of electronic components.

Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.

The Duo finally has a price and ship date, but the spec sheet raises a lot of concerns.

A November ballot initiative will let California voters decide Uber's fate.

Four companies appear to have a shot: Astra, Firefly, Virgin Orbit, and ExPace.

A coating process makes it work. But is it practical?

The specs claim more than 1,000 miles of range and a top speed of 221mph.

A few of the more notable updates in this month's patch batch from Microsoft.

The good outweighs the bad, though weird interview choices add unfortunate bloat.

Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.

It turns out the advanced hands-free driving system requires a subscription.

High-profile shooter pushed back to 2021. Hardware price still unknown.

The last two weeks of July saw nearly 100,000 new cases in school-age kids and teens.

Charter petitioned FCC to eliminate merger condition that forbids data caps.

Dealmaster also has deals on PS4-exclusive games, iPhone cases, and more.

Proposal would have seen year-to-year increases of over 100% for some execs.

Despite lack of data, design pitfall, Putin said his daughter was already given a dose.

Courts are split on whether phone unlocking orders violate the Fifth Amendment.

CEO deleted photos from phone, but they were still on server, McDonald's says.

We knew the Air could go really fast; now we know it can go really far.

Google leverages the massive scale of Android to do phone-based earthquake tracking.

New 6-Series TVs also have THX game mode; new 5-Series TVs get local dimming.

Google Music is shutting down soon, but Google wants users to stick around.

The end of Paramount could eventually make your local theater a Disneyplex.

Windows on Apple silicon is still a question mark, though.

“We haven’t done anything nearly as dangerous as what we’re about to do.”

Researchers find focusing on finances gets more people to install solar power.

“The physicists have known sin. And this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

Goku vs. Superman? Donkey Kong vs. Zangief? Two decades of fan work made it happen.

Also, the company is adding CarPlay Dashboard support to the Google Maps iOS app.

A welcome addition to the battery electric vehicle market.

Outbreak spans 43 US states and 7 Canadian provinces. Cases are expected to rise.

AT&T’s WarnerMedia suffered across-the-board revenue drops in Q2.

“I think India is now comparable with Russia.”

New controller—and its descriptive box—announced the news before Microsoft could.

There’s a new platform, and the first new car is next year’s Ioniq 5 crossover.

Update: School cancels in-person classes Monday and Tuesday as COVID-19 spreads.

The ’80s comedy has stood the test of time, even inspiring a 2009 Mythbusters episode.

"Keeping the good Internet alive"—one open sourced, algorithm-less site at a time.

Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more.

There’s no word on when Google and phone makers will incorporate fix from Qualcomm.

In at least one podcast's case, put your phone on your chest, hit play, and unwind.

Pollution reductions too short-lived, but where do we want to go after?

A few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between a man and his cryptocurrency.

Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”

"I am very confident with the selection that we have made today."

Appeals court charts a middle course between the plaintiffs and the government.