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NEW YORK It’s a chilly Thursday afternoon, and throngs of people from around the world have come to New York’s Chelsea neighborhood to take a walk on an abandoned rail line. Old railroad tracks obscured by grass and flowerspeek out as the pat

If Russian hackers are fiddling around with Americas electricity grid, then that would be extremely alarming. It is also what was reported by the Washington Post on the heels of the Obama Administration announcing sanctions against Russia for interfering

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is one of the biggest tech events of the year. Here is an overview of some of the biggest announcements to expect from it.

CES 2017 is just around the corner, and we've got just enough details on the trends we'll see to whet your appetite for the most important consumer electronics show in the world. Here's what you can expect to see the first week of January 2017. The post C

A significant number of Samsung Galaxy S7 owners report that the camera lens of their device is shattering without any actual impact occurring, and so far Samsung appears to be refusing to cover such incidents under its warranty. The post Galaxy S7 owner

Microsoft could finally be solving one of Windows 10's biggest irritations: automatic updates. Winaeros Sergey Tkachenko noticed a new feature that would allow users to delay an update for up to 35 days in a recent leaked build of the Windows 10 Creat

Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands. However, police in Arkansas want to know if one of the gadgets overheard something that can help with a murder case. According to The

AI has been hot in 2016, and it's not cooling off anytime soon. The investments, acquisitions, trials, reorganizations and breakthroughs of the past year have set the AI industry up to have tremendous impact over the next twelve months.Here are nine p

Cyanogen has switched gears, leaving the Android variant CyanogenMod in the lurch, CyanogenMod's developers aren't giving up. They're forking the code into LineageOS.

Back in the fall of 2015, I signed up for Project Fi on a phone I was reviewing at the time, the LG-built Nexus 5X. Rather than ending my two-year Verizon contract early and transferring my main phone number to Project Fi, I opted to create a new phone nu

Gov estimates millions of driving jobs will be lost. The report says: “Job displacement is likely to be one of the most serious negative consequences of AI-driven automation, impacting entire industries and communities.

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As much as 47% of American employment is at high risk of being automated over the next 10 to 20 years, reckoned Oxford University's Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013. They subsequently worked out that 35% of British jobs were similarly vulnerable. Based on their figures, Andrew

A federal report claimed that up to 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at risk of being taken over by artificial intelligence. Should workers start to panic over possibly losing their positions to the technology?

Media Research Center president and conservative activist Brent Bozell says Mark Zuckerberg has assured him that Facebook will not be politically targeting conservative content as it launches its "fake news" initiative.

A lot has changed in the phone-shopping world. Know what to look for before searching for a new one.

If 2016 was the year VR arrived, 2017 is the year developers will start thinking seriously about making VR social. VR is all about immersion — that sense that you’re actually there, in the place to which your senses are transporting you. And adding a social component to a virtual

When security firm Kryptowire discoveredlast month that Chinese firmware company Adups was spying on text messages, call logs, contact lists, and location information sent by Blu R1 HD phones in the United States, Blu quickly acted to plug the security ho

Leaders from academia, government and the corporate world are exploring the idea of a universal basic income.

The Firefox Hardware Report published recently by Mozilla shows that Windows 7 is the number one operating system for users running the company’s browser, with a share of 44.86 percent, followed by Windows 10 with 25.67 percent.

These ingenious gadgets and ideas tackled inequality and improved the world for millions of people in 2016.