Internet products come and go, and microvideo platform Vine — which built itself on the notion of just 6 seconds of footage per video — is set to be on the way out. Twitter purchased the startup for $30 million in 2012, launched it shortly after in October of that year, and in October 2016 …

The hoverboard craze may have come to a screeching halt after a spate of the devices caught fire earlier this year, but the nightmare isn’t over for some. A board purchased through Amazon (before it ceased hoverboard sales entirely in February 2016) caused the destruction of a $1 million home in Nashville, Tennessee. The six-member Fox family filed a lawsuit …

Apple is getting serious about artificial intelligence. How serious? It’s just hired its first director of AI. And not just anyone — it’s hired Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor in machine learning at one of the top institutions for AI, Carnegie Mellon University. Salakhutdinov has been working on some pretty intense AI research. He primarily researches deep learning and neural …

Free app Duolingo is a great way to learn the basics of a new language, with small daily lessons that gradually increase your skills, with rewards for progressing. Now the service has added a new feature that’s a little different from the back-and-forth translation — text-based chatbots. These are aimed at helping you improve your conversational skills and skills you …

The embattled image board 4chan may have found an unlikely savior from its financial woes in Martin Shkreli. Like the notorious Big Pharma bigwig, 4chan also has a less-than-stellar reputation; it’s widely regarded as the “cesspool of the internet.” 4chan has suffered from money troubles for a number of years now, with its original founder Christopher Poole selling the site …

Welcome to adulthood, Google! The tech giant is celebrating its 18th birthday with a festive, balloon-filled Doodle by artist Gerben Steenks, because when you’re one of the world’s biggest internet companies, it’s your party and you can GIF if you want to. Google is celebrating its birthday on September 27, and has done since 2006, but no one quite knows …

Kim Dotcom, founder of file-sharing service Megaupload, is a wanted man in the US on charges of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering. In December of last year, a New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to his home in New Zealand to the US to face those charges. This week, a New Zealand court began hearing Dotcom’s …

Gareth Clear, a 36-year-old management consultant from Sydney, Australia, was severely burned by his iPhone 6 after he fell off his bicycle on Sunday. The phone, which was in Clear’s back pocket, caught fire when Clear fell on it. “I just saw smoke coming out of my back pocket and I was completely bewildered about what it was and then …

In the latest draft of the Digital Authentication Guideline, the rules by which authentication software must abide, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology is preparing to get rid of SMS-based two-factor authentication. This is where a service provider, such as Gmail, will send you a code via SMS that you will have to enter before you can enter …

Google has announced a new update to Nexus and Android One devices running its Android operating system. As an extension to Android’s caller identification, these devices will now be able to tell you when you’re receiving a call from or making a call to a suspected spam caller. “Spam callers be gone! Today, we’re beginning to update your Google Phone …