Image: Postmates Robotic couriers that look a whole lot like Minions could be coming to your city next year. On Thursday, Postmates announced its plans for a fleet of semi-autonomous messengers that the company wants to deploy in some cities in 2019. Postmates designed the vehicle itself, and dubbed it Serve. The storage-cooler rover is…

Alienware m15 Alienware m15 Alienware m15 What is it? Alienware's thinnest gaming laptop ever. Price Starts at $1,380; reviewed at $1,950 Like It's fast, and surprisingly light for the amount of power inside. No Like It's loud, and the battery life could be better. Portable for a supremely powerful laptop that is. The m15 is…

An underside view of an adult female Haemaphysalis longicornis tick Photo: James Gathany (CDC) A disease-carrying, newly invasive tick to the United States, the Asian longhorned tick, is poised to spread across much of North America, suggests a new study published Thursday in the Journal of Medical Entomology. According to the study, the tick might…

Democratic congressional candidate Mary Gay Scanlon during a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.Photo: AP/Matt Rourke A Pennsylvania Democrat who drew the scorn of activists and constituents after declining to sign on to a House effort aimed at overturning the FCC’s net neutrality repeal now says she will attach her name to the…

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty) Google seems to be trying to distinguishing itself from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon with a recent statement claiming it will not sell its facial recognition technology until it figures out certain policy issues. In a blog post about Google’s AI work in Asia published on Thursday, Kent Walker, senior…

The view from VSS Unity from a height of 51 miles, or 83 kilometers. Image: Virgin Galactic Earlier today, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into space, a historic first for the private company. But at a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.68 kilometers), the spaceplane fell 10.6 miles (17.32 kilometers) short of the…

Screenshot: Predictim Predictim, a service that sells parents the opportunity to screen potential babysitters by crawling social media, the web, and criminal databases, has announced it’ll be taking a step back and rethinking its approach after a wave of bad press and public criticism. We’ve reached out to Predictim to ask what prompted it to…