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You can add it to a motion detector. You can add it to a security camera. Heck, the creators of a tiny new Wi-Fi board even joke that you can add it to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Spark Core board, from Spark...

A woman in Iowa is recovering from injuries sustained by a dog attack, but it could have been much worse -- if her husband didn't bite back.

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Over the past couple of seasons, NBA players have gone a little crazy with their fashion. Patterned shirts and lenseless glasses are all the rage among players like Russell Westbrook, but there are still a few guys who d...

As time marches inexorably forward, vintage game systems like the NES inevitably stop working. But if you have a deceased system in your attic, you can bring it back from the dead with a Raspberry Pi.

Apple is widely reported to be developing a lower cost iPhone to expand sales and market share around the world. But how low-cost is low-cost? Probably not as low-cost as you think. J.P. Morgan analysts Gokul Hariharan a...

Kathleen Fleming, director of entertainment development at Lego, died April 27 in an accident in Cancun, Mexico. She was 39. Fleming joined Lego in 2009 as a senior manager of entertaiment development, where she worked o...

Brenda Heist, the Pennsylvania mother who disappeared 11 years ago and reappeared in Florida last week, turned herself in on an outstanding warrant, authorities said.

Acer is clearly and closely aligned with Windows, but there's one part of Microsoft's strategy it's not buying into just yet. At an event on Friday in New York -- in the middle of a sea of newly-announced Windows product...

While the P3 converts to a Windows 8 tablet, the R7 offers a hinged display that can be moved to a variety of viewing positions.

Since its founding in 2005, Y Combinator has become one of the most prominent seed accelerators in Silicon Valley, haven given rise to companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit. Every year, the organization and its foun...

The forecast for the future of rainfall on Earth is in: over the next hundred years, areas that receive lots of precipitation right now are only going to get wetter, and dry areas will go for longer periods without seein...

Google has changed the localized search page that was previously labelled for the "Palestinian territories" to simply read "Palestine." Google spokesperson Nathan Tyler acknowledged the change -- which went into effect o...

In its fourth and final test, the X-51A WaveRider pulled off three and a half minutes of flight under the power of its supersonic combustion ramjet (Scramjet), the longest such flight ever. The WaveRider, developed by Bo...

A Boeing X-51A Waverider Scramjet flew five times the speed of sound before taking a planned nosedive into the Pacific Ocean this week The launch was the fourth and final test flight in the U.S. Air Force's $300 million ...

The suspect -- who has bite marks on his hands -- is a clean-shaven male in his 20s, about six-feet tall. Women told police he had dark, spiky hair and moles along the side of his face.

Struggling to find a wristwatch that matches your shiny new $1.3 million LaFerrari supercar? Try the Hublot MP-05, designed alongside Ferrari engineers to be the perfect timepiece accompaniment to Ferrari's new top-end, ...

Picking winners and losers is bad policy. Instead, policies should empower consumers to freely choose the services and service providers they want. Competition is not improved by rules that limit auction participation, r...

First nightlies to roll out tonight, but remember the edges are still a little rough on this one The T-Mobile variant of the Galaxy S4 may have only been available for just a few short days now, but that didn't keep the ...

It's a little bit sexy and a little bit dorky, but Google Glass has finally arrived. Beyond the initial productivity uses of the device, how important are games going to be for driving its adoption, and what kind of game...

Spring is finally here. But that doesn't mean the world of tech is ready to take a break -- like you probably did, missing some exciting tech stories. As usual, you have nothing to fear, because we're here with our Top 1...