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Spotify prefers to break down payouts in terms of monthly activity. In July, a “niche indie album” garnered $3,300, whereas a “global hit album” awarded the unnamed artist $425,000. Based on the company’s proje...

One of the biggest problems you’ve ever faced in your entire life is about to be a thing of the past. Yes, I’m talking of course about trying to plug a USB cable into your computer’s USB port on the first try. Or i...

The edge of our sun's influence may appear different than expected.

[From GadgeTell] Stephen Silver reviews the ChargeIt! Universal Power Bank

A team of researchers discovered that the protein PC7 plays a critical role in the brain by affecting certain types of cognitive performance such as anxiety, learning and emotional memory. Their results could have a sign...

The Porkfolio Smart Piggy Bank from Quirky does a whole lot more than just store coins. This is one smart piggy that knows how to count and keep track of how many coins it has, and also knows how to...

If you have the LED Music Click Clock from Gingko Electronics, you can throw out a lot of junk that's cluttering up your desk or bedside table. The Music Click Clock is housed in a clean-cut wooden casing with an...

Filed in things you now know are possible but should probably never try in your lifetime unless your life depended on it but maybe still shouldn't: jump starting a dead car battery with an AK-47. Yes, you can do that. Wa...

Yes, Joshua Young is a doctor. And yes, the strange device he built and now wields is indeed sonic. But no, it’s not a screwdriver. Instead, Joshua’s intricate alloy AUUG controller is a imaginative musical device th...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found striking differences in how men's and women's brains are wired. In one brain region, women have more connections between left and right hemispheres, and men within...

A one-year-old West Highland Terrier and a four-year-old Rottweiler have produced a rare crossbreed dubbed the "Wottie." Facebook Joey and Zara are proud new parents to what may be a new crossbreed of dog: the Wottie.

The sequencing of 400,000-year-old human genetic material is a "breakthrough," says the study's lead author. The DNA, which may belong to an as-yet-unknown hominid, also sheds light on a close relatives of Neanderthals c...

The company has acquired seven companies in hopes of automating electronics assembly and maybe even taking on Amazon in retail delivery.     

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the ...

Scientists develop a new method for counting cancer-fighting cells in ovarian cancer patients.

AMAZON deploys marketing drones, crocodiles use sticks to fool birds and new computer viruses may communicate by sound

Scientists think the moon coalesced out of material blasted into space when a large object slammed into the proto-Earth in the solar system's early days. Determining the composition of Venus could help explain how this m...

A rare weather event has filled the canyon with fog, offering an even more stunning view than is typical.

If you're an American abroad, the NSA could find out where you are right now, if they wanted to. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency's collecting 5 billion records a day on cell phone locations ar...

The best gifts are the ones that aren't obvious. Oh you're going to get your sister another pair of earrings? Nah. This time you should go for a set that were 3D printed instead. In order to wow your family and everyone ...

Just when we thought selfies couldn't get any worse (see funeral selfie and Chernobyl selfie) we see this: a woman taking a picture of herself with a suicidal man being rescued from the Brooklyn Bridge in the background....

While Apple caused many people to take an interest in the tablet market, Google jumped right in and Android is the leading tablet operating system as well as the leading smartphone operating system.