Tapplock Smart Lock isn’t so smart about security

Home security is getting smarter, or at least that’s what the fast growing smart home market is trying to say. Pundits, however, warn of how the IoT rush could cause lapses in security, which has been proven time and again. Nowhere is that more troubling than when smart locks themselves are involved. One newcomer to that market is Tapplock, and … Continue reading

Superhero epic 'Invincible' heads to Amazon as an animated series

Amazon Studios has greenlit an animated series based on the comic Invincible, which was created by artist Cory Walker and writer Robert Kirkman, who made The Walking Dead. The new show’s source material tells the story of Mark Grayson, an ordinary te…

MIT uses brain signals and hand gestures to control robots

Robotic technology has a staggering range of applications, but getting it to perform adequately can be a challenge, requiring specific programming based around the way humans communicate with language. But now, researchers from MIT have developed a w…

Immigrants Died In ICE Detention Centers After ‘Inadequate’ Medical Care

A new report details over a half-dozen cases in which experts found poor medical care contributed to immigrants’ deaths.

Starbucks Announces Plans To Close 150 Underperforming Stores

No word yet on how many workers will lose their jobs when the stores close.

TP-Link squeezed a smart home hub into its new mesh WiFi router

Mesh WiFi routers are no longer all that special, so how do you stand out? If you’re TP-Link, you roll in a smart home hub. It just introduced a Deco M9 Plus router that builds on last year’s model with a hub for ZigBee- and Bluetooth-based devices l…

Snapchat Lenses bring coral reefs to your neighborhood

How do you make nature exciting to a generation growing up with Snapchat and Instagram? The California Academy of Sciences has an idea: bring the nature to the apps that generation is using. It just trotted out a series of augmented reality Snapcha…

Study Reveals America’s Favorite Grocery Store

Shoppers nationwide have spoken.

Samantha Bee Reveals Withheld ‘Recording’ From Stephen Miller’s NYT Interview

The comedian says she knows why the paper of record did not air the audio.

MSNBC Host Struggles To Read Report Of Babies Sent To ‘Tender Age’ Shelters

“I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go,” the MSNBC host later wrote.