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Ancestry.com wants to use DNA to estimate people’s risk of disease

Ancestry.com has spent the last two decades reading people DNA in order to help them learn about their family history, but now it wants to find a more constructive way to use...

Pepsi has confirmed that it’s working on its own smartphone

I wouldn't blame you for dismissing the rumor that Pepsi is working on its own smartphone, or even the recent report that gave us the alleged device's price and specs, but...

Singapore wants to start testing self-driving buses on its roads

Whether it's implementing nation-wide Internet of Things systems, or testing out drone-based deliveries for its postal service, Singapore has proven time and time again that it's not afraid to embrace emerging technologies. Not even its...

Xiaomi has started teasing a big announcement event next week

It looks like our waiting may finally be coming to an end. Teasers for a big Xiaomi product announcement event have started popping up on Chinese social media, and even...

Acer hopes Windows 10 will be enough to save it, but it won’t be

I highly doubt that embracing Windows 10 will be able to save Acer, especially now that the company has pretty much faded into insignificance, but that's not stopping it from trying....

Instacart has formed a game-changing food startup partnership

There are a bunch of services out there that send you everything you need to make a home-cooked meal, from easy to understand recipes to perfectly measured ingredients, and they're great. The...

Japan is bringing GPS satellite accuracy to the next level

The fact that modern GPS satellites are accurate to within about 11-12 feet is already really impressive, but that margin of error is still wide enough to occasionally cause problems in dense urban areas,...

Qualcomm has decided to abandon the augmented reality market

Vuforia isn't a name that many people are familiar with, but it's the most popular augmented reality platform on the market at the moment, and it has a new owner. Qualcomm was the original owner,...

ZTE has announced the ZTE Axon Mini

After seeing how successful the OnePlus One was, companies like Motorola and ZTE decided to release their own high-end smartphones with mid-range prices, and it's definitely paying off. The ZTE...

Dell is acquiring EMC in a record-breaking $67 billion deal

It looks like those rumors from last week were true, as Dell has announced that it'll be acquiring EMC in what's going to be the biggest business deal in the...

NASA is allowing startups to use its patents for free

You'd be surprised how many products that we see and use everyday actually utilize technology that was developed by NASA, such as memory foam mattresses and non-stick pans, through patent licensing deals....

Who needs to work out when you can just take an exercise pill?

Exercising is one of those things that we all know we should be doing more often, but only a handful of us actually do so. I'd like to say that...

Hulu is already dabbling in virtual reality content

With things like Google Cardboard allowing people to build their own makeshift virtual reality headsets and companies like HTC and Oculus preparing to release their own high-end headsets, the virtual reality...

The BlackBerry PRIV will cost somewhere around $630

The PRIV is far more than the BlackBerry's first Android smartphone, it may very well be one of the last handsets the company ever makes, depending on how well the...

Pepsi’s first smartphone will be mid-range device called the Pepsi P1

I'm sure most of you were quick to dismiss that rumor from a couple of days ago, the one out of China that claimed Pepsi is working on its own smartphone,...

Amazon wants to know how much its employees hate working for it

The New York Times released an in-depth report a couple of months about how much it sucks to work at Amazon, and with how much attention the report got, the...

Around 65% of American adults use social media nowadays

Social media is popular, can you believe it?! It's so popular, in fact, that around 65% of the entire adult population in the United States use social media in some...

China is now arresting hackers at the request of the United States

China and the United States reached some important agreements and understandings regarding cybersecurity last month, but a lot of people are worried that it was all just meaningless talk with...

HTC thinks copying the iPhone will help make it successful again

HTC needs to release a successful smartphone really soon if it wants to boost its sales and reverse its seemingly endless losses, and what better way to do that than to...

Paranoid Android is more or less dead at this point

Paranoid Android may not be nearly as popular as CyanogenMod, but it's still one of the best custom Android ROMs out there at the moment. Unfortunately, the team of developers responsible...