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Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA's Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, the probe has successfully transmitted back data and the very first flyby images despite unexp...

For cat lovers, there are few sounds as precious as a beloved feline's purr. The purr is often interpreted as a sign of contentment, but the real reasons for this vocalization are a bit more complicated.

Gary Fong has introduced the 5th-generation Lightsphere, which comes with a new Speed Mount.

Hulu’s new CEO may come from Fox, whose parent company News Corp. owns about a third of the video service. Both Reuters and Bloomberg reported Thursday night that Hulu will name Mike Hopkins, who is currently heading d...

As we reported yesterday, the latest data on Comet ISON indicates there is some encouraging news as far as the Comet surviving perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. While some are all doom and gloom about the pote...

Toying with the idea of taking BMW's first all electric vehicle on a road trip? You might want to look into its extended range options. For an additional $3,950 on top of the BMW i3's $41,350 base price, buyers can augme...

Amazon has long made a big deal of selling bite-sized books, and there's new signs that it may extend that love of short-form content to video. AdAge claims that Amazon has been pitching YouTube channel producers on brin...

Alibaba Group is targeting the U.S. market with a US$200 million investment in ShopRunner, an online retailer that competes with Amazon.com, a source familiar with the deal said Friday. The investment in ShopRunner comes...

Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and charged with the murders of 17 people whose bodies he dismembered and kept in freezers in his one-bedroom Milwaukee apartment. From the outside he seemed like just a regular guy. T...

When you think of iconic graphic design, you might think of magazine ads or highway signs or even design-centric companies like American Airlines. You almost certainly don't think of burglar alarms. But maybe you should....

News that the Google TV platform will get an update to Android Jelly Bean came at the I/O event back in May, but there's been little in the way of information since then. GTV Hacker team member CJ Heres points out a zip ...

Sunny summer days have all but disappeared to make way for the crisper autumn afternoons here in the northern hemisphere; give it another six or seven months, however, and we'll all spending lovely lazy afternoons in bik...

Despite being one of the greatest musicians of all time, David Byrne is a really awful futurist.

The Unity game engine likes to take things in small steps. First it was adding Linux and Wii U support. Then Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. Now that most of the major operating systems are covered, it's ti...

You know what they say about people who live in glass houses--but what about plastic bubbles? For the next ten days, a British artist named Alex Schweder is occupying this teensy inflatable home--that attaches to a van v...

In 2015, Toyota plans to make an advanced anti-collision system available to consumers, starting with Japan. The system uses sensors that watch for other cars, pedestrians and other obstacles and not only hits the brakes...

I recently invested in an AM/FM clock radio, and I will never look back. Why? Because radio in the morning is the best way to wake up.

Fox may have been making an empty threat when it said it would go the paid TV route, if Aereo continued to stream its content online. But, that doesn't mean the broadcasters were just going to stomp their feet and let th...

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Our weekly round-up of time capsule news includes a McDonald's capsule from 1970 that hasn't aged well, a Vietnam War-era capsule in Virginia Beach that "smells like rotten eggs," and more church time capsules than you c...

Over at Mercury News , new photos of an actual, physical model of Apple's soon-to-be corporate headquarters make the mothership-like campus seem more real than ever (and just as beautiful).

Qualcomm is developing a new line of Zeroth processors designed to help devices think and sense just like human brains and bodies.