It looks like Microsoft could be about to finally roll out its updated Xbox One avatar suite. According to The Verge’s senior editor Tom Warren, it looks like Microsoft will soon deploy the long-teased custom avatars. The Pixar-like characters offer a massive overhaul from the charming, but simple, avatars Microsoft first introduced with the Xbox …

Kitty Hawk, the same group of California dreamers who introduced the leisure-focused Flyer last year, has revealed an all-electric, self-piloted air taxi in New Zealand. The company, which is backed by Alphabet’s Larry Page, has been working on “an aircraft so personal it could weave the freedom of flight into our daily lives” since 2010. …

Don’t be caught committing cellular sins! Follow our expert rules to avoid being rude and annoying on your smart phone. Put your phone away at the dinner table This may seem obvious because, hello, it’s rude, but being courteous in public to both your dining partner and other diners is important, says Amy Rice, Gadget …

Our phones are training our brains to be in a nearly constant state of stress and fear by establishing a stress-fear memory pathway, endocrinologist Robert Lustig told Business Insider. And such a state means that the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that normally deals with some of our highest-order cognitive functioning, goes completely haywire, …

Musk said that should a third world war happen here on Earth, it would be crucial that humans could live on Mars. Elon Musk , CEO of SpaceX , has revealed the new timeline for test flights of the spaceships that could one day take humans to Mars. Speaking at the South by South West …