Anonymous claims accusing the social network of deliberately leaving conservative websites out of its “trending topics” box are untrue, the company said late Monday. “We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true,” Tom Stocky, vice president of search, said in a Facebook post.. The claims started …

Other smart contact lenses are focused on improving vision or providing an augmented reality HUD, but Sony wants to look outwards rather than in. A new patent, awarded to the company in April, describes a contact lens that can be controlled by the user’s deliberate blinks, recording video on request. Sensors embedded in the lens are able to detect the …

A bunch of projects have seen drones piloted using brain activity to control the drone. Now, for the first time, pilots thinking very hard have competed with each other to race their drones. Students at the University of Florida have used Emotiv Insight EEG headsets to read their brain activity, translate it and transmit it in real-time to drones as …

Report abuse on Twitter more easily than ever. Find out how to protect yourself and others.https://t.co/1MEfTzkfFL — Safety (@safety) April 25, 2016 “> Twitter is constantly trying to improve how users can report abuse on the microblogging website. On Monday, the company announced an update that will make the process less painstaking, adding the ability to attach multiple tweets to …

Lego has its own Mindstorms kits for building robotics projects, but Brixo wants to give you a lot more creative freedom. Brixo is a series of Lego-compatible bricks that perform various functions so that you can design and build your own projects. There are three types of bricks: chrome-coated connector blocks that connect and close circuits; trigger blocks that contain …

The sensitive data of 1.1 million users of dating website BeautifulPeople.com has allegedly been leaked online and is being sold, according to a report by Forbes. This data includes names, addresses, sexual preference, relationship status, phone numbers, email addresses and even private messages. The website was hacked in December 2015, and at the time BeautifulPeople.com said the incident occurred on …

The US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge from a group of authors who claim Google Books violates their copyright. The New York-based trade group The Authors’ Guild and several individual authors have been fighting Google Books since 2005, when it first brought the matter to the Supreme Court. In 2013, a US Circuit Judge dismissed the case, arguing …

Autonomous underwater vehicles are opening up the aquatic domains in more detail than ever before. However, current drone technology is still limited in a few ways, one of which is size, shape and flexibility. With a swimming snake robot, Norwegian engineering company Kongsberg Maritime believes, we could access, survey and monitor hard-to-reach areas. Together with Norwegian University of Science and …

Swedish band Wintergatan’s latest music video was a little outside the box. Not one for traditional instruments, Wintergatan’s Martin Molin built a complex musical machine by hand. It’s powered by hand crank and uses over 2,000 steel marbles to play vibraphone, bass, and kick, snare and hi-hat drums it incorporates. The Marble Machine took over a year to build. Molin …

If you want to steal a 3D design, all you have to do is record the sound of the 3D printer making it. In research demonstrating that industrial espionage may be as simple as opening a recording app on your smartphone, a team led by Professor Mohammad Al Faruque at the University of California at Irvine has shown that it …