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MakerBot is a company that has pioneered products to allow 3D printing in the home, business, and educational environment. The company has announced that a new printer driver for its MakerBot 3D printer is now available ...

Western Digital has discovered a way to improve its hard drive capacity by up to five times the amount. In truth Seagate discovered the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, but it's Western Digital who bel...

Concentrated laser light in the universe may singal the presence of a technological civilizations that might be living on distant planets. "Think about humanity 300 hundred years from now," said Geoffrey Marcy this past ...

The BenchMark Legacy Chemicals kit on Kickstarter lets kids unleash the awesome power of chemistry without watering down the experience.

In October, an ambitious, collaborative genetic research program based at Baylor University became the largest cloud-based genomic research project to date, by its own account. As part of Cohorts for Heart and Aging Rese...

Breach that compromised two Singapore government websites last week could have been better mitigated if security was considered from the start of the design and development lifecycle, says FireEye.

Our week through the lens: 11-15 November 2013

The anticipation is building for Comet ISON's potentially dazzling night sky show this month and a new mobile app promises to help skywatchers spot the comet with telescopes, binoculars and their own eyes.

Triggertrap’s Redsnap accessory, a modular camera trigger for high-speed, camera trap and timelapse photography, has exceeded its funding goal of $50,000 on Kickstarter by nearly 6 times.

It is no secret that Edward Snowden leaked a vast quantity of documents, with new information continuing to surface repeatedly after he fled to Russia. Last month, the NSA revealed the approximate number of documents Sno...

Super typhoon Haiyan was significantly stronger than Hurricane Katrina, due to different atmospheric conditions in the western Pacific.

Just in case you were still being fooled into thinking that the TSA is good for, well, anything, follow along with You Tube contributor Terminal Cornucopia as he constructs a home-made "FRAGGuccino" from stuff you can bu...

Nintendo may not want to bring its franchises to mobile platforms, but that doesn't mean other developers won't try to fill that niche. In fact, every inch of the recently released Oceanhorn is inspired by The Legend o...

The Dock received a visual overhaul in OS X Mavericks which defaults to removing a minor transparency effect. It’s a subtle change that many users won’t even notice, but the difference is that now the content of wind...

Tombstone thieves in Johannesburg, South Africa have had no trouble sneaking by security guards, so cemeteries have begun looking to a new solution: embedded security chips that will sound an alarm if a tombstone is move...

Yuri Acurs, the world’s top-selling microstock photographer, will go to great lengths to prove he’s right, and the video above is a great case in point for that. He wanted to prove that he could flash freeze a fighte...

With tablets and ultraportables garnering so much attention, you might not have noticed how thin and light desktop replacements have become. You'll need an extra-tall backpack to accommodate the Toshiba Satellite P75-A72...

Time to chalk another one up for cryptocurrency bitcoin's reputation as a disruptor in the financial world? Today, news comes that Coinbase -- the YC-incubated startup that offers a bitcoin buying and trading platform fo...

Just as the world was getting used to the news that Facebook attempted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion, a new report suggests that Google trumped that offer with a $4 billion bid of its own. GigaOm founder Om Malik first...

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have gotten more and more hungry for Google users’ data over the past four years. Google said on Thursday that requests for users data from the United States government have m...

schwit1 writes "In 2006, climate change experts from Bangor University in north Wales found a very special clam while dredging the seabeds of Iceland. At that time scientists counted the rings on the inside shell to dete...

The U.S. National Security Agency may have "court-sanctioned" legal powers to tap into the servers of Silicon Valley giants, which are fighting back against secretive gagging orders. But what happens if they lose their l...