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Nikon has come under fire from animal welfare groups and some wildlife photographers over its new 'Monarch' line of rifle scopes, designed for game hunting. Marketed as being 'Engineered for Safari' Nikon claims that the...

JTT has released what looks to be the smallest consumer night vision camera in existence. About the size of your typical CF card, the CHOBi CAM 3 can snap 11MP photos and take 1080p video for up to 120 minutes on a charg...

While the image of the amateur camcorder user still revolves around a parent recording baby's first steps, Canon knows that at least some of us want high-quality footage without venturing too far into pro camera territor...

We rarely think twice about the technological complexity behind checking the forecast on our smartphones. But an intricately detailed mechanical watch, like Breva's new Genie 01, that tells you what the weather will be l...

Cosina-Voigtländer's Bessaflex TM is one of my favorite cameras. It's an incredibly beautiful and refined camera that was discontinued (2007) as suddenly as it was put on the market (2003). There are but a handful of in...

Twitter has just completed their developer event at San Francisco, California, so what kind of new content can we expect from this micro-blogging site? Well, it seems that Twitter users will soon be able to enjoy a new f...

Twitter held an invite-only, closed-to-press developer event tonight, and the agenda was helping those developers build features that can appear on Twitter's website and in its own apps. The new cards that Twitter is off...

We are on a record-tying one episode streak for starting on time -- and we bet we can do it again. So join us tomorrow (Thursday) at 1PM PT / 4PM ET / 8PM GMT for The Vergecast. We shouldn't need to tell you what to expe...

The CamRanger is the wireless device photographers have been waiting a long time for and after one use I can say it was worth the wait.

In the list of things you probably should never experience in your life, even if you're sozzled to oblivion, dangling upside down from an active power cable is probably near the top. This very, very drunk man, however, o...

The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has been almost too patient in developing a standard for for its eponymous technology -- efforts began 17 months ago -- but it at last has more than good intentions to show for its work....

Sells out in hours Microsoft has decided the best way to get Mac-using developers to use Windows 8 for web compatibility testing is to give it away....

There hasn't been any concrete news that an iOS 7 is even in the works, but that doesn't stop chatter about it being behind schedule and having a brand new display.

Our computers rarely run as fast as we want or expect them to. Whether you're a Mac or Windows user, it's maddening to sit in front of a taunting hourglass or spinning circle of death, especially when you have work to do...

Europe is planning to help recession-hit areas of the continent by offering an extra carrot for those who establish their tech and R&D credentials - and who share the cash with their neighbours.

Turns out that Motorola support page may have been right after all After a puzzling update to Motorola's support documentation for the Droid Bionic that indicated it would receive Jelly Bean in Q2 2013, soak test registr...

Freud knew we could not fully understand the biology of the brain, and consequently, his approach was more art than science. Now, science is getting closer to creating the holistic puzzle to help scientist solve pervasiv...

Pour one out for the Gold Guy tonight, my fellow gamers. A sage pillar of the industry has fallen. Just 154 days after acquiring LucasArts as part of their larger, $4B acquisition of Lucasfilm, Disney has dissolved the c...

A new free software update for the Big Jambox is coming today that will provide increased battery life and improved performance.

CEO Lowell McAdams says the company could easily shift to the model if consumers begin demanding it.

Dangling WiFi-carrot meet your BlackBerry-made stick: the Z10. Perhaps because its user base has traditionally courted strong enterprise support -- a lot that typically overlaps with the jet set -- BlackBerry's offering ...

American Idol producers -- for the first time in the show's 12-season run -- will let the public determine one episode's theme this season, Idol's wireless sponsor AT&T exclusively told Mashable before Wednesday night's ...