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Today the first DLC for the augmented reality game The Playroom built-in to the PlayStation 4 has appeared with the name Toy Maker. This update to The Playroom allows the user to take their smartphone or tablet and creat...

Welcome to our coverage of all the best Black Friday deals. Deals are continuing to pour in, and this post will be constantly updated right up to the point when our Cyber Monday guide goes live. These deals are all subje...

Deals with major payment players and ecommerce sites as Jifiti takes transitions from startup to business

The Lomography Online Shop now carries the Harman TiTAN Pinhole Camera, which takes pinhole photos on 4x5” sheet film.

Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), showing more clearly than ever the bulge at its core. Previous explanations suggested that the stars that form the bul...

One of 11 remaining copies of the first book ever written and printed in the United States has just sold for $14.2 million at a Sotheby's auction. According to CNN, the Bay Psalm Book set a record for a book sold at auct...

Magnets have fascinated humankind for millenia. From the Greek philosophers to scientists of the modern era, which saw the rise of quantum mechanics, magnets have been pondered and investigated. Nowadays, they are not on...

Internet giants such as Google and Amazon run IT operations that are far larger than most enterprises even dream of, but lessons they learn from managing those humongous systems can benefit others in the industry. At a f...

After months of rumblings about a standalone slate, Wacom finally unveiled not one, but two tablets back in September. On paper, the Cintiq Companion may be the more compelling mobile workstation, just because it runs Wi...

A NASA spacecraft has captured its best video yet of the icy Comet ISON streaking toward a Thanksgiving Day encounter with a sun, a cosmic encounter the comet might just not survive.

Comet ISON reaches perihelion at 18:25 UT (10:25 PT) on November 28. It's an event that's being watched around the world, accompanied by tons of commentary and streams of photos. We will update this blog entry periodical...

One cool Chicago evening in the fall of 2010 I was grabbing drinks with four friends. The El was right above us and would intermittently interrupt our conversation. One of the chaps, slightly drunk, suggested we pool res...

Today Honda announced that it is offering Siri Eyes Free integration with certain 2013-2014 Honda Accord and 2013 Acura vehicles. Honda said that it would be implementing Eyes Free as a dealer installed accessory back in...

Suspecting NSA interference, Microsoft is taking a leaf out of Google and Yahoo's books in efforts to prevent surveillance and wiretapping of its global datacenters.

How will your application perform on the Amazon cloud infrastructure? The new PaaSLane for AWS assesses source code for potential issues.

[From EntertainmentTell] Billy Joel is set to make an "historic announcement" with Madison Square Garden next week. What could it be, what could it be? Here are 10 possibilities.

When the Omni VR treadmill was announced, many anointed it as the perfect companion to the much-awaited Oculus Rift. But a group of students at the Vienna University of Technology may have a better VR treadmill…

The U.S. National Security Agency spied on people it identified as influential Islamic "radicalizers" in an attempt to expose discrepancies between their public personas and private behavior. The agency did so in an atte...

Does your Internet download speed seem painfully sloth-like? This could be a result of the country you live in. The US ranks a lowly 31st in the world's consumer download speeds.

(University of Hamburg) A novel approach to understand magnets was taken by a team of scientists lead by Klaus Sengstock and Ludwig Mathey from the Institute of Laser Physics at the University of Hamburg, with collaborat...

This summer, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced to jail in Sweden after being sent there from Cambodia, where he was arrested after having received a sentence back in 2009 that ultimately resulte...

[From AppleTell] The Lumen TL800--the first Bluetooth smart bulb to market--can display sixteen million colors with its dimmable RGBW LED, as well as auto change colors and brightness in various modes.