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What do you do when your startups launched a product in a nascent category and then a behemoth like Google enters the space and validates it? And eats your lunch in the process? If you're video streaming startup PLAiR, y...

Like the annual FIFA and PES footie games war, it's now the turn of first person shooters to fight it out, headed up by Battlefield 4. The annual atrocity exhibition this year kicks off with EA's Battlefield 4, a title d...

Richard Feynman was probably one of the very few true individualists in the history of physics (Image: Telegraph) Ricardo Heras has a well-written and thought provoking essay in Physics Today in... --

You probably know that sitting on your butt all day isn't good for you, but you might not realize just how bad it is. According to one frightening study, people who spent more than 11 hours per day in a chair were 40 per...

Fujifilm has recently contributed to heat the pocket camera market with the launch of Fujifilm XF1 XQ1 as successor. Fujifilm claims that this camera is more portable than ever. Fujifilm XQ1 have a slightly similar desig...

Yashica's still around. This time, it's in the form of a digital camera with 500x zoom. The post Yashica Mobile Digital Microscope MS-01 With 500X Zoom is Now Available appeared first on The Phoblographer.     

The Fujifilm XF 23mm f1.4 R is an ultra-fast, moderately wide-angle prime lens for Fujifilm X-series compact system cameras. Offering a classic focal range of 35mm in 35mm terms, is the Fujifilm XF 23mm f1.4 R a worthy a...

The Rockstar Consortium that acquired Nortel Networks' patents filed Thursday patent infringement suits against Google, Samsung, HTC and five other companies. In a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dis...

Roger Cicala of LensRentals is man after our own hearts, never happier than when tinkering with lenses and writing about what he finds, however obscure it may turn out to be. And in celebration of this, he's launched wha...

L-3's Coleman Aerospace division won a $74 million contract from the MDA to develop and manufacture medium-range ballistic missile targets.

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An international trio of astronauts on Thursday took a Soyuz space capsule on a rare trip around the International Space Station in preparation for the arrival of a new crew next week.

Snow storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes--all these can have a dramatic effect on our lives and generate a lot of different responses. Now a team of experts are hoping to piece together our responses to ma...

This evening Vancouver residents found out what was inside that Kaiju-sized Xbox One: a marketing stunt. Meant to promote the console and launch title Dead Rising 3, Kotaku has posted a picture of the demo stations withi...

Like the Samurai's mempo, the uniforms of many of today's Special Forces units play dual roles. Not only do they protect the wearer's face and conceal his identity, they terrify the pants off of the enemy. Take the newly...

Groupon is getting a facelift just in time for its fifth birthday The daily deals service announced Friday that it has overhauled the look and functionality of its website for the first time since it launched in November...

On the Internet, it's easy to create a new pseudonym or personality. But what happens if you remove the concept of a user profile all together? That's what Whisper, an anonymous mobile social network for Android and iOS ...

The U.S. government is studying whether it can scour social-media websites for clues about potential risks from workers such as Edward Snowden and the Washington Navy Yard shooter. Snowden, a former National Security Age...

I've mentioned in the past that Apple seems to have energy conservation at the heart of its latest designs, and we've seen that especially with the long battery life of notebooks running Mavericks and in the very design ...

The tech giants, along with Yahoo, Facebook, and AOL, call upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to substantially reform the US government's mass surveillance practices.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "According to a Bloomberg report, Canadian oil sands giant Suncor, which is "Canada's largest energy company by market value," is currently testing haul trucks that are run by computers. Extracting ...

My HTC One isn’t running Android 4.4 KitKat, but it feels pretty close. I just downloaded several apps that come standard with Google‘s Nexus 5. The apps were graciously posted by Droid Life, and when combined with a...