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There are some great optical illusions posted on YouTube, but we have to say that this is one of the best. YouTube user brusspup has created a picture of a cartoon T-Rex that seems to follow you around the room with its ...

The Early Rider Belter is an award-winning ultra-light bicycle for kids. The bike is designed to make life easy for little kids who would otherwise end up pumping away furiously at the pedals trying to get large and heav...

It has already been much speculated that Samsung is to release several new tablets in the new year - this much is fairly obvious. However, now we have proof, of sorts, that an 8.4-inch device is imminent. A approval post...

In order to land on the Martian surface, NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity went through seven minutes of terror: it plummeted from the sky at 13,000 miles per hour, with only a supersonic parachute and a set of rocket motors t...

1) GMO Corn Study Withdrawn: A research team led by University of Caen biologist Gilles-Eric Seralini stoked fears about the safety of GMOs in September 2012 with a paper that purported to show a link between genetically...

As the new Mac Pro trickles out into people’s hands, lucky owners of the world’s most high tech trash can have started playing with the machine to see what it can do. Over at Other World Computing, they figured that�...

What's your poison? How it affects you depends on much more than the amount of raw alcohol it contains. Kat Austen distils the truth (full text available to subscribers)     

Netflix had fired off a tweet this evening on its customer support Twitter account announcing that some users in the United States, Canada, and Latin America were experiencing streaming problems. …

An anonymous reader writes in with this story of confusion at the NSA due to the flood of data they harvest. "Some of the documents released by Mr. Snowden detail concerns inside the NSA about drowning in information. An...

Vacation rentals site HomeAway, which has a birdhouse logo, says Airbnb's whimsical birdhouse campaign will confuse consumers.

This spacewalk is not related to a recent pair of spacewalks by two NASA astronauts to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump...

Apple's new Mac Pro is a sight to behold: In black aluminum with an eye-catching cylindrical design, there's little chance you'll ever mistake it for any other computer. The previous Mac Pro was iconic too, of course, bu...

Having voice turn-by-turn directions right in your pocket with an iPhone is easily one of the most helpful features of the Maps app for iOS. The navigational assistant will get you just about anywhere you need to go with...

BMW wants to leave no niche unexploited. The 4 Series Gran Coupe will be a four-door version of the 4 Series, itself based on the 3 Series sedan, and a smaller counterpart to the 6 Series Gran Coupe. The post Not so gran...

Apple is once again seeking a sales ban on over 20 different Samsung smartphones and tablets that were found to violate its patents last year. Though such a ban was initially rejected, last month Apple was given another ...

Grunge typography is an often overlooked blip in the timeline of visual communication, yet it's one of the most important categories of type. The Awl dives in to the '80s and '90s typography revolution that thrived on me...

One of the great things about the FCC is that the commission is obligated to reveal all of the newly-minted and as-yet unannounced gadgets that pass through its hallowed halls. The latest to be shown is a Samsung tablet ...

Samsung has released a new version of its development kit for its Smart TV platform that includes an expansion of the devices that are compatible with the system. This essentially enables developers to create application...

I have been a skeptic about Chromebooks since Google announced them. What could you really do on a pseudo-laptop whose only native application was the Chrome browser and which depended on an internet connection for most ...

(Neural Regeneration Research) This release focuses on ormobaric oxygen preconditioning for cerebral ischemic injury.

Sure, the larch-wood cladding gives Ufogel a kind of rustic charm, but I'll be damned if this Austrian guest house doesn't really look like it just beamed down from a quaint corner of outer space.

Another year comes to a close, and another year of gratuitous television show pirating is in the bag. Who wins the award for the most illicit views? According to numbers from TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones keeps the crown...