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Von Holzhausen used her expertise to find traditional materials made in an environmentally conscious way, as well as more advanced, unique materials from the auto industry, combining them with clean and timeless shapes t...

All right, look. There are a lot of things you can already do with virtual reality (VR). But now you can also use Google Earth on the Oculus Rift headset. The app came to the HTC Vive a few months ago, and now more peopl...

Just in time for Earth Day, scientists say the search for extraterrestrial life may have gotten a boost from the discovery of earth-like planets where life could exist. If so, would the residents of said planets care to ...

Basil Harris is like a real-world Dr. McCoy. He and his small team at Final Frontier Medical Devices have created a Star Trek Tricorder, like the fictional one that Bones McCoy carried around in the TV series decades ago...

GUEST: Two months ago, Tim Cook railed against the rise of “mind-killing” fake news and pledged Apple News’s support in the battle against it. And so far, Apple News has done an admirable job of curtailing false ne...

The Samsung Galaxy Apps Store is the underdog when it comes to competing with the iOS and Google Play app stores. But the company does have the advantage of being the world’s biggest smartphone maker, and it embeds its...

While it remains to be seen what Apple is doing in the VR space (if anything), the company has made its interest in AR clear over the past year. Today, a new patent from the company has been published, further supporting...

Below are five new or noteworthy skills chosen from the Most Enabled, New, and Customer Favorites This Week categories of the Alexa Skills Store. In Alexa news this week, Alexa skills makers got a new way to test their s...

GUEST: It’s been another action-packed week for India’s tech and startup scene. Here are the highlights:1. Google launched Areo, a hyper local app for food delivery and services. In a really strange move, Google has ...

Starbucks baristas have taken to social media to complain about the coffee chain's entry into the latest food craze: Unicorn Frappuccino.

Happy Friday! Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week: 1) Google has reached a settlement with Russia's regulator in Android antitrust case brought by local rival Yandex. 2) Dutch star...

The U.S. Homeland Security Department's inspector general said on Friday he was investigating possible abuse of authority in a case that triggered a lawsuit against the department by Twitter.

Microsoft today announced that it has begun to add features to its standard-issue Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 for Gmail account holders. Over the next few weeks, the enhanced apps will become available to peopl...

App-enabled cab company Hailo today filed a lawsuit against larger competitor Uber alleging that Uber infringed on its 1999 patent of an “automated vehicle dispatch and payment honoring system.” Southern California l...

Get out your VHS cassette players, because it’s almost time for some schlocky horror … wait, I’m being told that murder thrillers now come out digitally. Friday the 13th: The Game is getting ready to launch on Stea...

One of the best things that Nintendo added to Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U is its blistering-fast 200cc racing tier, and now that the Deluxe version of this game is out soon, I’m going to attempt to conquer this mode onc...

When you're running a business, the constant pressure can easily lead to decision fatigue. Here are three ways you can avoid self-induced stress and the perils of impaired decision-making.

Howard Tullman leads one of the world's top entrepreneurial ecosystems, Chicago's 1871. In this wide-ranging conversation with Rob Wolcott, Clinical Professor of Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Tullman di...