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Having already locked in its two heroes, Fox and director Matthew Vaughn look one step closer to gearing up production on "The Secret Service" with Samuel L. Jackson now set to play the villain. Pic already stars Colin F...

These days, it seems like everyone and their dog is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund their very own 3D printer, and the market's quickly become saturated with a plethora of models to choose from. Not quite as popul...

msmoriarty writes "Google's Don Dodge, GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner, New Relic's Lew Cirne and others recently got together in San Francisco on a panel called 'The Developer is King: The Power Behind the Throne.' Accordin...

Adrian Pohlit is investigating the medicinal properties of Amazonia's plants, and says the next big antimalarial drug may be growing right under our noses (full text available to subscribers)

As we were sitting around gambling our lunch money away today (note: we don't endorse gambling or take part in it during work hours), one of us happened to wonder whether one coin or another might be better for pitching ...

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Huawei has invested billions of dollars in Africa over the last two decades, providing affordable cell phones, internet access, and telecommunications networks to the continent. Over the last few m...

All it took was a few humble Google searches to send shivers throughout the collective spines of the internet this week. Michele Catalano, a writer for Death & Taxes magazine, wrote on Medium about how a group of armed m...

The Moto X was announced to much fanfare earlier this morning, and with good reason, too. Since then, a slew of news concerning the Moto X too, was released, including a Google Play Edition of the Moto X being a very rea...

FirstNet is going to make sure we minimize any chance for communications failures during emergencies. Sadly, though, we have seen what happens when our first responders can't communicate, most notably on September 11, 20...

Magic Lantern has been hard at work improving their hacks for the RAW video output on the 5D camera series, and now they're hard at work with the Canon 7D.

Lake Vostok is one of the largest subglacial lakes in the world. It may harbor unique types of organisms.

The Bank of America tower boasts all sorts of green details: An automatized system to dim lights in daylight. A grey water collection system. A foundation partially made from waste materials. Must be a pretty energy-effi...

The Magic 8 Ball has been a fair number of things in the past, where among them include a flash prank that we talked about a couple of years back, a rather rectangular version which sullies the namesake of the device, an...

Before Vibease, the world's first smart vibrator had been on crowd-funding site Indiegogo for 24 hours, it had already earned double its $15,000 funding goal. But to spokesperson Hermione Way, it's no surprise. As a woma...

Amazon has filed a complaint in court in a bid to prevent Big Blue from snapping up a lucrative $600 million contract with one of the world's most elusive intelligence agencies.

The mercury-in-glass thermometer has served us well for the past 270 years, but sometimes you need something smaller -- say to find the temperature inside a single living cell. Researchers at Harvard have discovered a ne...

Using tools to remotely record conversations on Android devices and laptops, the FBI is allegedly taking a cyber tack on surveillance.

The WSJ is reporting that the FBI uses super slick hacker tactics and tools to spy on people. It can get pretty dirty. Like, according to a former US official, the ability to "remotely activate the microphones in phones ...

When it came to the Moto X, Google gave us a masterclass in how to build hype, but sustaining it is proving to be a much trickier endeavor. Motorola recently debuted two new commercials on its Youtube channel that aren't...

Yahoo bought Rockmelt today, a startup that debuted with a wave of media fanfare touting it as the company that would reinvent the browser for the age of the social web. It didn't catch on, Rockmelt pivoted, and eventual...

Continuing its rapid expansion, cloud service provider DigitalOcean has opened a second facility in the greater New York metropolitan area -- a data center located in Google's gargantuan Manhattan facility. The additiona...

The nature of unspecial effects, an Object Lesson.