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Researchers at MIT made a machine that changes its shape based on what it sees.     

Google is investing $80 million in six new solar plants in California and Arizona that the company says will provide enough electricity for 17,000 homes in the United States. The investment is Google's 14th in renewable ...

Stephen Wolfram at a conference earlier this year (NEXT Berlin / Flickr). The power of Wolfram Alpha — the intelligent search engine that can answer natural language questions and solve complex math problems — is bei...

It wasn't long ago Motorola rolled out the Moto X. Now it's showing off the Moto G, a phone designed to save you cash and still provide some power. Which Moto is the way to go? We look at the specs to find out. The post ...

Research firm Gartner has released its latest report on the state of the smartphone industry around the world for Q3 2013. The numbers show that Android as an operating system is dominating the overall market for smartph...

We've already seen first-hand that the Smithsonian has a keen interest in 3D printing and modelling, and it's now turned that interest into something of a public service with a new online collection that's just launched ...

This week the teams responsible for pushing as many Kindles as possible this holiday season have hit upon a rather lucrative business: custom-made covers. What Amazon intends on doing here is offering up a service that w...

The general counsel of a U.S. spying agency told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday that if Internet companies provide information about the number of surveillance orders they receive for user data, it would alert the cou...

(Stanford University) Stanford University scientists have created a silicon-based water splitter that is both low-cost and corrosion-free. The novel device -- a silicon semiconductor coated in an ultrathin layer of nicke...

It looks like most folks in the US have a long wait ahead of them before they can take Firefox OS for a spin. Despite ZTE's plan to design a bigger and better phone for release in the country in 2014, Mozilla exec Mitche...

Aside from light sabers, invisibility cloaks, hover anything and time machines, there isn't very much out there that hasn't been tried, invented, perfected and sold to the masses. Our ancestors would most likely not reco...

Amid a growing climate of concern regarding the overuse of opioid pain medications, a comprehensive analysis of more than 1 million hospital admissions has found that over 50 percent of all nonsurgical patients were pres...

Casio Japan has announced the EX-10 - a flagship high-end compact with a 1/1.7" type sensor and a fast 28-112mm equivalent lens. The model, which will be coming to other markets, features magnesium alloy construction and...

The YotaPhone which was announced sometime at the end of last year certainly did look revolutionary back then – especially when it boasts of a dual-screen configuration that comprises of a 4.3" 720p LCD display, in add...

Title: Overweight Men May Face Higher Death Risk From Prostate Cancer: StudyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/12/2013 4:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 11/13/2013 12:00:00 AM

(Concordia University) Thanks to new funding from the Government of Canada, two Concordia University professors just might create a greener aerospace industry and help cure fungal infections.

Nikon Df is a full-frame DSLR camera with retro style that was launched in November 2013. This camera uses a 16.2 Megapixel CMOS FX-Format sensor with EXPEED 3 image processor. In addition, Df Nikon also has features lik...

Cord-cutting has become even more of a headache for pay television providers over the past year. The Wall Street Journal points us to a new report from researchers at MoffettNathanson estimating that the pay TV industry ...

Companies, academics and individual software developers will be able to use Watson at a small fraction of the previous cost.     

The general idea is to ensure that graphics-related problems don't hinder developers from building complex mobile apps, which will ideally end up in Amazon's AppStore.

The iPhone and iPad maker is accused of hiding more than $1.3 billion from the European country's taxman, according to reports.

KitKat is now available directly from Google for Nexus owners.