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Desoldering stations are expensive, but if you want to get solder off of your electronics it's the best way to do it. If you don't mind doing a bit of the legwork yourself, DIYer Sable Wolf shows off how to build a desol...

You might have heard by now that another smartphone has joined the mid-range party, this time from Motorola in the form of its Moto G. We have been comparing it to a number of other mid-range smartphones that it competes...

Motorola has officially unveiled its Moto G smartphone, and with it comes a stack of exciting accessories. The phone itself will cost only £135 for the 8GB model in UK and the accessories have a nice, cheap price to mat...

Unlike the first lawsuit, in which SSL and its then-owner, Loral Space and Communications of New York, were both named, the second is aimed solely at SSL.

When it comes to home security, it's simpler than you'd think to DIY a quality system . What's a security system without lasers, though?

You all must know by now that Joanne Manaster and I are suckers for excellent science music video parodies. This one, by the folks at UCSD Neuroscience, is our latest favourite. Set to the tune of... --

Many companies outside of the IT vendor arena are assuming roles as 'cloud service brokerages,' new survey finds.

The chipmaker secures a line of credit in order to give the company "greater financial flexibility," according to the company's chief financial officer.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project received confirmation from Mars Sunday that the Curiosity rover has successfully transitioned back into nominal surface operation...

Manufacturing will soon mean putting the parts in one place - then shaking until they come together, says Skylar Tibbits, head of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab (full text available to subscribers)     

When Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5-billion machine to work. But... --

Irritating George Clooney is the least of Elon Musk's problems. After three Tesla cars caught fire over the past six weeks, CEO Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that he will not recall any of versions of the Model S, the c...

It's kind of hard to believe, but Jawbone--a company that was built on Bluetooth--didn't have a wireless radio in the first two iterations of its fitness tracker, the Jawbone UP . That finally changes today with the intr...

Esensors is developing a wireless non-contact power meter intended to be used to monitor appliance power. It may be used both to measure energy usage of an appliance and to log the time it is on. It is ideal for...

Netflix is reprogramming the way its Internet video subscription service appears on millions of television screens in an attempt to hook viewers for even longer periods.

When an airplane passenger stops breathing, a doctor has to improvise on the fly.

Yves Rossy, an ex-pilot, has flown over Mt. Fuji, using his own invented jetpack.

XS-1 aims to develop a reusable first stage -- DARPA is open to winged and nonwinged designs -- that could carry an expendable upper stage capable of placing payloads weighing up to 1,800 kilograms into orbit.

For Microsoft, the road to tablet riches may well be filled with devices that are small of screen and that don't include a touch cover keyboard.

A promising technology may enable doctors to diagnose and possibly treat in utero a common cause of stillbirth and sudden death in infants, according to research published in the American Heart Association journal Circul...

When an E. coli cell divides, it must replicate its circular chromosome and pull the resulting circles apart to take up residence in two new cells. It sounds easy enough -- like a magician's trick with rings -- but actua...

Title: Aptiom Approved to Treat SeizuresCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/11/2013 12:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 11/12/2013 12:00:00 AM