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The most important--and expensive--coffee gadget for a home cupper is a burr grinder. Good coffee requires even extraction, and no matter how many fancy coffee makers you own, if you're not using a burr grinder, you won'...

Properties, sources and uses of the element phosphorus.

Last week, Google finally released the developer guides and other necessary documents that will allow developers to write apps for Glass. In some respects, the so-called Mirror API may have been a disappointment to devel...

Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how you can make a pretty nice flash diffuser for your macro setup for just a little time and a little money. This is the list of materials you'll need: Cardboard or plastic board Tape (...

Sony Japan has launched the AKA-DM1 camera harness to mount the company's latest line of action cams on man's best friend. Priced at ¥5,250 (approximately $50), this harness fits bigger-framed dogs that weigh at least 1...

When Twitter #Music launched last week, it wasn't a surprise at all to those following tech stories, since rumors had been kicking up about its existence for months. However, it was a surprise to the Frances Cone Band, w...

The journalist David Blum has found success as the editor of Amazon Kindle Singles, a Web service that is helping to popularize novella-length essays and fiction.

Spies aren't the only ones who use infrared imaging. Boston police utilized high-tech tools, including a forward-looking infrared device (FLIR), to find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding...

One thing that Magic: The Gathering will never have would be spacewalkers, never mind that they are full of planeswalkers and the like. Well, there is a 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut who has now broken all records of sor...

Modern solar collectors can concentrate only so much energy for safety's sake: too much in one place and they risk cooking themselves. An IBM-led group is working on a new collector dish that could avoid that damage whil...

The Pebble's app library is slowing growing, but right now you'll mostly find watchfaces. It's one part scavenger hunt, one part novelty shop, with a dash of practicality.

I love that POTUS has invited these scholars here and treating them like NCAA Champs!!!-- LeVar Burton (@levarburton) April 22, 2013 The nation's premier young brainiacs were honored today at the annual White House Scien...

Even as Nike recruits young talent to build an ecosystem around its fitness platform, the company isn't forgetting about existing products like the popular FuelBand. Today the FuelBand app for iOS was updated with two ne...

Netflix has been in the news today as it released its quarterly letter to shareholders, but that's not the only thing they did today. The Netflix iOS app has been updated, though its not a major revamp, it does bring som...

According to IDC data, the enterprise software market's growth is slowing, but analytics and big data are strong. Western Europe stumbles, but other regions grew.

Another song, another record -- that's how it's going for Psy.

Spanish-made mobes in basic and advanced models Developers who are interested in building apps for the Mozilla Foundation's web standards-based Firefox OS will be able to get their hands on the first handsets running the...

As mindfulness becomes a hot topic in the innovation space, more and more software that combines cutting-edge technology with modern mindfulness is available, melding plugging in with unplugging. So for your yogic pleasu...

The Leica camera with which Alfred Eisenstaedt took one of the most famous photos of all time -- a spontaneous kiss between a returning sailor and a nurse on V-J Day in 1945 -- will be going on the auction block in Vienn...

Another bump for London's Tech City, the enterprise big data company is setting up shop at the Silicon Roundabout, likely much to the pleasure of the U.K. coalition government.

We live in a day of TL;DR -- an abbreviation for "too long; didn't read." Weighing in at 1,090 words, this article qualifies for accusations of TL;DR. But if you made it this far, as only a meager 20% percent of visitors...

News Corp. has agreed to pay shareholders $139 million to settle a class action suit stemming from the conglom's 2011 acquisition of Shine.