Former GOP Rep: Emergency Declaration Making McConnell ‘Eat A Manure Sandwich’

Mike Rogers speculated that the Senate majority leader was making a trade-off in trying to avert another shutdown.

U.S. Citizens Stopped By Border Agent For Speaking Spanish File Lawsuit

The Montana women were told their accents and language were suspicious at a store near the U.S.-Canada border.

Pink Says She Slashed Her Husband’s Tires Over Thanksgiving

The singer said she needed 13 stitches after the incident.

How to Tell When Your ‘Tough Boss’ Is Really A Toxic Boss

When “high standards” involve toxic behavior, it does not pay to be or have a tough boss.

BlackBerry wants to power your self-driving car

BlackBerry is aiming to reinvent itself as a heavyweight in autonomous and connected vehicles, announcing a huge investment into its QNX platform. The expansion will see BlackBerry invest more than $310m into the new project, while the Government of Canada will inject $40m more courtesy of its Strategic Innovation Fund. It’s going to mean a significant expansion for BlackBerry QNX, … Continue reading

The Lucrative Government Spyware Industry Has a New 'One-Stop-Shop' for Hacking Everything

How do you build the next $1 billion unicorn start-up in the hacking industry? One group of spy technology entrepreneurs says it’s found the answer.

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Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Release

Researchers at the non-profit AI research group OpenAI just wanted to train their new text generation software to predict the next word in a sentence. It blew away all of their expectations and was so good at mimicking writing by humans they’ve decided to pump the brakes on the research while they explore the damage…

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This Year's Flu Vaccine Is Actually Pretty Effective —and It's Not Too Late to Get it

This winter’s U.S. flu season hasn’t been and won’t be anywhere near as devastating as the historic season that killed 80,000 Americans last year. That might make latecomers eager to brush aside the idea of getting a flu vaccine. But a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should hopefully…

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How AI made Facebook’s Portal your ‘personal cameraman’

After releasing its Portal video-calling tool to largely positive reviews (especially from its employees) last November, Facebook is finally cracking open the device and giving the rest of us a glimpse at the Portal’s inner workings. Engadget sat dow…

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs outlines how it'll make money from Toronto

For the last two years, Google’s Sidewalk Labs has been working on a planned neighborhood on Toronto’s waterfront. Now, thanks to internal documents obtained by the Toronto Star, the company’s plans on how it will make money through the development h…