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Google Accidentally Releases a "Confidential Internal Only" Update to Pixel XL

Following the device's release , Google and HTC, the Pixel's manufacturer, struggled to match the manufacturing infrastructure of other already well-establishe...

Pence says United States to expand military alliance with Japan

The term "reckless" is one the North Koreans have used to describe ongoing large-scale US and South Korean military exercises, which the North calls a dress reh...

Apple Releasing iPhone 8 & Two More New iPhones Devices This Year

DigiTimes reported today that the company's chip suppliers will start stocking solutions for this year's models, of which the iPhone 8 is expected to be one ...

New indications of the overwhelming success of the iPhone 8

The assembling work will be handled by Taiwanese original design manufacturer Wistron, with which Apple has a contract. Samsung has been reported to have tr...

Jason Chaffetz Won't Seek Re-Election in 2018

Dr. Kathryn Allen has been transformed from a political unknown into a liberal hero for calling out Chaffetz on Twitter, giving her an early boost in name recog...

First woman to run Boston Marathon completes race again 50 years later

Still, despite proof that women could clearly complete marathons, the athletic world generally assumed that women "couldn't run and didn't want to run" that far...

Snapchat unveils World Lenses as Facebook battle wages on

Zuckerberg positioned the camera push as the start of an open developer platform for augmented reality that will feature additional capabilities as time go...

United changes crew-booking policy after passenger's removal

The incident shined a new light on the practice of overbooking, which airlines increasingly rely upon to avoid losing money on seats left when some passengers d...

The Sony Alpha A9 is the ultimate mirrorless full-frame camera

On top of 5-axis in-body image stabilization, there's added support for an Ethernet port and dual UHS-II SD card slots. Sony's new full-frame camera is equipp...

Saturn's moon Enceladus has ideal conditions for life

Chemical analysis of the plume suggested conditions favourable for methanogenesis - the generation of methane by microbes that use hydrogen and carbon dioxi...

Amazon rolls out chatbot tools in race to dominate voice-powered tech

Amazon manages data mostly for its corporate clients. Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing service that rents data storage and computing power to in...

Pence assures Japan: America is with you '100 percent'

A militarily strong South Korea and Japan could do what they should have been doing since the end of World War II and the Korean Wars, respectively - provide fo...

Love game for Serena: Spox says Williams is pregnant

In March, she withdrew from the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California, and the Miami Open citing a knee injury . She then went on to win the Austral...

Actual Vs. Consensus: Can Merck & Company, Inc. (NYSE:MRK) Beat the Street?

Finally, Citigroup Inc. restated an overweight rating on shares of Ford Motor Company in a research note on Friday, October 21st. Renaissance Technologies LLC n...

Republican: 'All Hands On Deck' In Congressional Runoff

Democrat Jon Ossoff almost won Tuesday night's special election outright thanks largely to voters angry over the presidency of Donald Trump . The victor will...

United won't remove seated passengers from overbooked flights anymore

United Airlines crew members will no longer be able to bump a passenger who is already seated in one of the airline's planes. Still, chief executive Oscar Mun...

Imagination likely to see Apple royalties slashed, then end

According to the source, it may be named to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone's launch and is said to pack a new design with a stainles...

Trump targets visas program for highly skilled workers

Colleges fear that, as with his previous orders banning travel from some majority-Muslim nations, the president's latest move could deter foreign students fro...

Facebook's Vision on Reality

The possibilities for AR are only limited by a developer's imagination and there are plenty of ways in which the real world can be manipulated using this techno...

Massive asteroid to make 'very close approach' to Earth this week

On April 19 , a relatively large near-Earth asteroid will fly past safely. The asteroid, known as 2014 JO25 , will come within 1.1 million miles of Earth,...

O'Reilly's departure creates new challenges for Fox

O'Reilly, the most-watched cable news host for 15 straight years, never addressed the charges on his program, even as advertisers abandoned him in droves. He th...

Patriots - minus Brady - to visit Trump hours after Hernandez' death

It's not uncommon for just a few representatives from Super Bowl championship teams to make the ceremonial trip to the White House . During the South Lawn ce...

Another nearby planet found that may be just right for life

Make that super-sized, because it belongs to a class of planets called super-Earths that are more massive than Earth but not quite the size of giants Neptune or...

Australia toughens foreign worker visas

It is set to be replaced by a restrictive visa programme. "We are putting jobs first, we are putting Australians first", Turnbull said. The majority of the ...

Apple receives license to test self-driving cars in California

Securing approval to test its vehicles was likely no small task given that regulators have recently been given reason to be wary about allowing more self-drivin...

Israel Refuses to Negotiate With Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike

Barghouti and another strike leader, Karim Younis, were reportedly transferred to solitary confinement by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on Monday in an app...

The Facebook F8 Conference Lacks to Deliver Innovative New Products

He also said that Facebook isn't anxious about "no innovation" allegations and defended copying Snapchat by saying that it was the ground work for Facebook's ...

Amazon says it is bringing retail shopfront service to Australia

We are excited to bring thousands of new jobs to Australia, millions of dollars in additional investment, and to empower small Australian businesses through A...

Facebook pushes to augment reality through smartphones

Posting on his own Facebook profile after his speech, Zuckerberg said, "We all know where we want augmented reality to get: glasses or eventually contact lens...

Trump Orders Review of the H-1B Visa Process

The order directs US agencies to propose rules to prevent immigration fraud and abuse in the program . They said the executive order calls on those four depart...

Pence in Japan: 'All options are on the table' regarding North Korea

The reports came after Trump said that the North Korean nuclear issue would be "taken care of", while at the same time calling on China to pressure its neighbor...

Analyst's Report Recap: United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE:UAL)

United Continental Holdings had a return on equity of 35.62% and a net margin of 6.19%. The firm earned $8.42 billion during the quarter, compared to the consen...

Watch today's rocket launch in new live 360-degree view

The 19-story booster soared off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:11 a.m. EDT/1511 GMT. Glenn was the first American to orbit ...

Watch World's First Live 360 Degree Video of Rocket Launch April 18

The unmanned Cygnus cargo ship, nestled atop an Atlas V rocket, is poised for take off during a 30-minute launch window beginning at 11:11 am (1511 GMT) fro...

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hangs himself in his prison cell

According to department spokesperson Christopher Fallon, the former tight end tied a bed sheet to the cell window to hang himself. Fallon said he was not aw...