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A team at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has managed to create a tiny pyramid small enough to house a single living cell. The pyramids were developed using a new 3D micro and nanofabrication technology calle...

Electronics distributor CPC is inviting entries for the first Raspberry Pi "hackathon," a competition to see which individual or team can come up with the most interesting hacked innovation based on the famous ARM comput...

According to Entertainment Weekly, SyFy is set to air "Robot Combat League:" a new show hosted by WWE wrestler Chris Jericho that will feature brutal boxing battles between 12 teams with tall, 1,000-pound humanoid robots...

What else can the busy modern human need than a vending machine that dispenses the essentials, like caviar and truffles? [Read more]

Attention all parents: Disney, the company that wants to absorb all childhood happiness, both past and present, is planning to replace you with robots. Unsatisfied with the secondary love and attention they receive from ...

The well-known star-forming region of the Orion Nebula.  Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope / Coelum (J.-C. Cuillandre & G. Anselmi) Precise distances are difficult to gauge in space, especially within the relativ...

The iPad seems to have dominated online shopping from tablets, according to an IBM report, and in fact won out over all other devices in mobile e-commerce. Arguably, that's because it offers more of a full-web experience...

Magnetic Floating Sofa Cloud "Magnetic floating sofa cloud concept. Everyone should have one!" Pinned From: Ricktastic Mulvay, Walk your dog daily Source: DK & Wei Click here to view this gallery. There is more to Pinter...

Twitter has moved far beyond just being a network you use to tweet about your lunch, and along with the many useful services it's a platform for, it can also be a tool for terrorism and violence. At least that's how seve...

Some laptops touted in Black Friday and other holiday sales are priced at less than $200 from U.S. retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. But what do you get in such inexpensive machines? For one, you can't play the lates...

Custom ROM fans were briefly teased with the prospect of Verizon loosening its anti-modding stance when the HTC Droid DNA first arrived: in the pre-release days, the official HTCDev portal allowed unlocking the DNA's boo...

When Google launched their Nexus line earlier this month to much anticipation, it was met with certain excitement. But now, a growing number of users are experiencing a clicking or buzzing sound emitting from the device'...

Take a break from all the offline and online shopping you've been doing, grab some of that leftover Thanksgiving pie and settle into this week's Viral Video Recap. This week's roundup includes the cutest cat that won't t...

Bargain hunters' spending leaps 26 percent over last year's Black Friday, surpassing the $1 billion mark for the first time, ComScore reports. [Read more]

Apple's Passbook joins the mobile payments gold rush. But Jeff Fagel, of edo Interactive, has doubts about its viability and says until we see a system that's easier for everyone, plastic will remain king.

Studies have shown again and again that mobile-phone networks help economies grow. And it’s not just because people need to be employed to build the networks and sell the phones. By increasing the flow of informat...

Whether you're driving, flying, taking a train, taking a bus, or just walking several hundred miles, chances are you're doing some traveling today. Tech makes just about everything better, and travel is no exception. Wha...

Puzzles, mazes and spatial relations. Might sound bland, it's the theme of this week's top apps -- perfect for your kids to learn while having a blast. More About: Top Kids Apps, contributors, features, gallery, mobile a...

For your postprandial pleasure I present the an open-source vibrator that you (or your partner) can play like a theremin. The story of how it came to be is pretty amazing and involves FCC chip lookups, bit-tracing, and l...

The hacker group that recently infected Israeli police computers with the Xtreme RAT malware has also targeted government institutions from the U.S., U.K., and other countries, according to researchers from antivirus ven...

While Japan's ailing consumer-electronics sector struggles to regain momentum, it turns out that Sony Corp. actually climbed to the No. 3 position in the global smartphone market in the third quarter. Sony, which was the...

Could computers become cleverer than humans and take over the world? Or is that just the stuff of science fiction? Philosophers and scientists at Britain's Cambridge University think the question deserves serious study.