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A new policy will mean that users have to sign in to an account in order to watch or listen to its programming.

Ubisoft's Star Trek: Bridge Crew won't just put you in a VR starship when it finally launches. It'll also give you the power to interact with the virtual Starfleet crew with your voice. The company has teamed up with IBM to add Watson'

If you really want to see how autonomous vehicles cope with traffic chaos, NYC is the place.

Dodgy update turned audio driver 'effectively into keylogging spyware'

Apple announced plans Wednesday for a $1 billion expansion of its massive data center east of Reno, doubling its investment and roughly tripling its workforce at the technology campus where company officials expect to hire 100 additional workers.

Please die already. Wall Street just gave Yelp's latest earnings report a one-star review. Good.

Yelp said Tuesday it saw a wave of local advertiser departures in January and February, and shares plummeted a shocking 28% as the online-reviews site again lowered its full year outlook.

Charting the stratospheric rise and meteoric fall of these languages and frameworks is Stack Overflow, which today launched a tool that shows you interest in a particular technology over time. It measures interest by the number of questions asked each month. Stackoverflow trends introduction link:

Last week, Intel disclosed a serious security flaw that could be used to gain remote access to business computers without the OS ever knowing such access had occurred. Now we know the situation is even worse than we thought. The post Major Intel Security

It's pretty much the worst nightmare of any new phone owner. Just days after you've picked up your shiny new, expensive, state-of-the-art handset, it slides/slips/drops/pinwheels/fumbles its way out of your hands, out of your pocket, off some surface and

Smartphones are ubiquitous in our lives: we rely on them to navigate unfamiliar surroundings, look up information, and stay in touch with people with an ever-growing collection of apps. A new,...

A US Health Department study has confirmed that most US citizens have completely stopped using landline phones -- shocking no-one. In a report released today, the government revealed that 50.8 percent of American households are now cellphone-only, wi...

On this week's MashTalk, we chat Microsoft Windows 10 S and Surface Laptop, Apple earnings, and review the BlackBerry KEYone.

A new report suggests that the mere threat of President Donald Trump's executive order to investigate abuses to American workers due to the H-1B visa is making U.S. companies rethink their hiring practices.

How to use social media to promote your brand without risking your company's reputation

In his first 100 days as president, Trump has undermined the open web, put the planet on a course for environmental catastrophe, and sent some truly alarming tweets.

Anyone with a laptop computer or smartphone knows all about how batteries lose their capacity over time. The day you bought it, your phone could cruise through the day without issue, but two years

Twitter is finally showing signs of life after months — years, even — of flatlining. The social media behemoth today released its quarterly report for Q1 2017, which didn’t, at first glance, look very encouraging. It still can’t seem to turn a profit. Its

Researchers know what the botnet is capable of but they don't seem to know what it'll actually do.

Amid criticism of spreading fake news, a top Facebook executive said the technology firm does not want to be the "arbiter of the truth" because it sees itself as a platform for social commentary rather than as a publisher....