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If phablets are your kind of device, then devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and LG’s Optimus G Pro could be of interest to you .While the Galaxy Note 2 has been launched, the Optimus G Pro is expected to make...

The Internet, as we all know, is primarily a medium for viewing cat photos.

Some parts of the moon haven't seen the sun in millions, and even billions, of years but an unmanned NASA spacecraft is shedding light on these lunar lands of permanent darkness.

It's not often that we hear of Samsung suffering from buyer's remorse, but it looks like it should have kept e-ink manufacturer Liquavista's receipt in the box-file marked "Important." Bloomberg's Person Familiar With Th...

Sensor-laden watches that electronically measure the temperature, barometric pressure, and magnetic north are fairly cheap. A nice Casio can be had for about $200. But if you're one of those high-tech, post-IPO types tha...

Playing a violin requires far more finesse than just dragging a bow across its strings. There are subtle nuances in motion, pressure, and speed required that take years to master. Or, you can wait for Dylan Menzies to pe...

As Nobel-prize chasers search for a cure to HIV, and Bill Gates squanders his fortune on new and innovative vaccination methods, one topic has remained unexplored: why do gamers insist on drawing dicks in videogames? Kot...

Short for "If This Then That," IFTTT "recipes" build efficient notifications and triggers that optimize our everyday activities. For example, you can create the following recipe: "If a shipping status changes on my Amazo...

Photographer t-shirt company Dodge & Burn is taking its silk screening prowess and applying it to a new product: posters. In addition to apparel, it is now selling serigraphs (i.e. screen printed posters) with its �...

Touchscreens treat all fleshy finger pads alike: Most detect a simple change in electrical current or in sound or light waves regardless of who is swiping. Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, have built a touc...

The first audio message to be relayed from outer space will be preserved as part of the National Recording Registry alongside Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon," Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence," and Chubb...

Apple, Google, and Samsung are all rumored to be building their own smartwatches, and LG is the latest manufacturer to reportedly join the fray. According The Korea Times, LG is currently developing both a smartwatch and...

If you're handing over cash for a heavily discounted iPad from some random guy in a McDonald's parking lot or at a gas station, then yes, you should consider your purchase a risk.

It's starting to look like the next iPhone will need to unveil a killer feature for the masses -- some of them, at least -- to be satisfied. [Read more]

Neodymium solution for spaceplane heater disconnect? Earlier this week, we published results of some tests on the proposed heater for our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) rocket motor heater, designed to keep ...

'Resilient national network? Not tonight!' Brit internet and communications provider Entanet is slowing bringing its systems back to life today after they metaphorically keeled over last night.…

Love of hate Apple products, the fact of the matter is that most people consider them to be trendy and hip products; basically products that you would love to be seen with, although we guess that might depend on which si...

Universal Machine upgrade needed, where can I find the parts? It's been almost two years* since Stephen Fry last put his foot in his mouth - but the boy has gone and done it again. The nation's most cherished TV advertis...

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has been gathering data since its launch in 2009, slowly building up a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation -- a distant remnant of the Big Bang. The resulting ima...

Do you ever feel like the rest of the world is so dumb? And it's not that you're especially smart, it's just that people are just so dumb. Do they enjoy being dumb? Have they ever thought about being smart? Of course not...

Planck also refines matter measurements Among the mysteries revealed by the first set of papers released out of the Planck telescope data is a new estimate for the age of the Universe: at 13.8 billion years, it's 100 mil...

Gaping security holes are a pretty terrifying thing, especially when they involve something as sensitive as your Apple ID. Sadly it seems that immediately after making the paranoid happy by instituting two-step authentic...