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The much rumored fingerprint scanner for the iPhone 5S is here, and it's pretty awesome. It's more that just a high tech way to unlock your phone, too--though it does do that. However, it's also poised to open up all kin...

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project has completed the longest duration test for a Space propulsion system (48,000 hours/5 1/2 years). This look inside the thrusters discharge chamber shows how it works.

It's pumpkin spice latte season, and that can only mean one thing: fall TV premieres are right around the corner. Thankfully, Hulu (like several other providers, if you have cable or satellite just take a look at your vi...

If opulent isn't an adjective you'd immediately associate with the mining profession, then you've clearly never had a peek inside Poland's Wieliczka Salt Mine. The subterranean marvel (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) has...

The four large Internet service companies have asked the FISA Court to allow them to publish certain aggregate data about FISA requests they receive. The government will have to defend in court.

Leave it to the Internet to recognize the strange hilarity of a waffle losing its balance. YouTube user schnooleheletteletto uploaded this mysterious clip in mid-Aug., but it wasn't until Sept. 9 that it gained traction ...

It's a bold claim, but a Japanese company called Terumo claims to have developed a special type of sock that can stop shuffling seniors from tripping over low obstacles like rugs or the edge of carpets. The secret is a c...

Right on time, as Apple's launch event finishes the FCC publishes test documents for its latest hardware. After pawing through the stack we didn't spot any surprises for the iPhone 5c or iPhone 5s -- with their wide LTE ...

Lucas123 writes "At Disrupt this week, Ossia Inc. demonstrated for the first time its wireless charging technology that founder Hatem Zeine said has a 30-foot radius and, like WiFi, can charge through walls and 'around c...

Ever since Apple introduced the original iPhone in 2007, it has adhered to a standard formula: Introduce one updated model the following year, discount the previous model and kill off models that are more than two year o...

Having a nibble of astronaut ice cream is a rite of passage for field-tripping American youths, but the reality of subsisting solely on specialty dehydrated vittles with long shelf lives doesn't have the same kind of nov...

We get our mitts on the plastic iPhone 5C and the fingerprint-reading iPhone 5S.     

Groundbreaking Balkan hacker conference BalCCon: First Contact brought hackers from all over the world to its successful launch and makes plans for next year's edgy event.

Expected Apple to officially kill the the 30-pin connector today? Not so fast -- the company left the 4s clinging to life as a freebie. The big reveals today, however, were the all new iPhone 5s and lower-cost (and brigh...

Self-driving cars stand to be the next piece of technology that shakes the foundations of modern life. It's not hard to see why--it's basically science fiction come to life. Since it seems like everybody wants to be invo...

While Apple was explaining the iPhone 5s' new M7 motion coprocessor, it mentioned a Nike+ Move tracking app that left us wondering about the FuelBand's fate -- is it redundant? In a word, no. Nike tells us that Move is s...

It's taken almost eight months, but AT&T has at last finalized its deal to purchase $1.9 billion worth of spectrum from Verizon. The agreement, first announced back in January, allows Verizon to unload a good chunk of it...

Photographer Ben Marcin grew up Baltimore and has lived there for decades since, but it wasn't until a few years ago that he began to notice a unique phenomenon in what he dubs the "rougher sections" of town: a single cu...

You want an iPod Touch and/or iPod Nano in "Space Grey"? You got it! Because of course. Goldpagne however, is still reserved for the iPhone 5S bourgeoisie.

There were plenty of ooo's and ahh's at today's iPhone 5S event, many of them direct at the new revolutionary fingerprint scanner . But many people overlooked a tiny piece of hardware that stands to open the doors to a w...

I learned to type on the original Macintosh, worshipped my click wheel iPod, and still believe in Apple TV. I am an enthusiastic Apple evangelist in pretty much every aspect of my life. But I have never been excited abou...

So, you know fancy new fingerprint reading home button Apple showed off for the iPhone 5s at today's event? The company demonstrated functionality for unlocking and buying stuff through iTunes. Cool, but what about third...