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While there are thousands of "best places to live" lists, hardly any of them focus on the world's most important population segment: Americans under 35. The Livability Index, compiled by Vocativ, a new Vice-esque site, m...

As Bitcoins see a steady climb in value, some unfortunate folks have found their accounts drained thanks to hackers who breached Inputs.io, taking a total of 4100 bitcoins. At present exchange rates, this amounts to abou...

The W Motors Lykan Hypersport is a car for people who think the Ferrari LaFerrari is too common. While 499 LaFerraris will be built, only seven Hypersports will wind up in customer hands. The post Designed using only a r...

We got to play with the world's first 4K tablet at CES but didn't think we'd see it on sale after hearing nothing about it for a while. Now Panasonic says it will be selling the 4K Toughpad for $6,000 (£,3773). READ: Pa...

The tech investor Suhail R. Rizvi is a major Twitter shareholder from outside Silicon Valley, a power broker who seems to prefer a low profile.     

Russ Frushtick from Polygon joins us for a chat about the upcoming next-gen consoles, a back and forth with Jeff about the flights and falls of "Gravity," and a few stories from our daily rundown.

Microsoft announced a few months ago their current CEO, Steve Ballmer, will be retiring within a year. That means the company is currently scrambling to find a new leader, and one such person that is in the running is No...

Don't slag its limited feature set. By focusing on just a few key features, Sony's wearable avoids complete failure.

  Ever find yourself stuck without a cable when you need to charge your iPhone? No, me either. I'm a nerd and a professional gadget tester, so at pretty much all times I have some kind of Lightning cable, dock…

While it's not exactly the most dramatic reading in the world, Kindle's have long had a text-to-speech option for those looking to have their Kindle's read to them. If you're more of a fan of iBooks, Cult of Mac shows of...

Sapphire crystal growth solutions provider GT Advanced Technologies announced earlier this week that it inked a big deal with Apple. The company said that Apple will prepay for about $578 million worth of sapphire growth...

agizis writes "Google presented their new QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) protocol to the IETF yesterday as a future replacement for TCP. It was discussed here when it was originally announced, but now there's real...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is moving to allow Bitcoin donations as a campaign contribution in national races. Under the rules, Bitcoin donations would be considered "in-kind contributions" rather than direct...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems has concluded that disaggregation of space assets to render them less vulnerable to attack is not all it's cracked up to be and that one way to cut space program costs is to limit government...

Outdoor GPS specialist Magellan has created a smart sports watch called Echo which is now on sale. The Echo is designed for runners and intelligently works with your smartphone via Bluetooth. It's friendly with over 100 ...

If your car was powered by thorium, you would never need to refuel it. The vehicle would burn out long before the chemical did. The thorium would last so long, in fact, it would probably outlive you. That's why a company...

Schildi is not your average turtle. After having been abandoned and losing a leg, some awesome German vets found a way to make him a better, stronger, faster tortoise. Now, fitted with a Lego wheel for a leg, he's a bion...

The conventional wisdom of coupledom holds that intimacy equals privacy. Claire and Alan are reversing it.     

Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, considered one of the leading candidates to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft, is reportedly open to the possibility of broadening distribution of the company's Office suite to plat...

Way back when, I wrote about the dust problems we were seeing in Nikon D600 cameras. There was enough of a furor about it that when the Nikon D610 was released I assumed that the dust problem would be fixed. But I'm rath...

The mass distribution of stars is called the initial mass function, or IMF for short, and it characterizes the properties not only of our Milky Way, but of all the other galaxies we observe as well. But is the IMF consta...

Landmark study says people in business school choose weakest passwords.