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China's e-commerce giant says selling the virtual currency will be banned on its site "in the interest of consumer protection."

Optoma has a new projector that embraces 1080p LED technology and allows film buffs to experience 3D cinema in their own homes, called the HD91. The HD91 offers consistent brightness and colour performance, as well as a ...

Swedish company Foreo's got a silicon toothbrush called Issa. It vibrates like your Sonicare, and comes in woozy pastel colors. Let's not kid ourselves: this is a sex toy disguised as a dental revolution.

We caught up with E Ink, the company behind the screen tech on the Amazon Kindle at CES 2014, to see what cool stuff we could find hidden on its booth. The post Beyond the Kindle: 3 awesome places E Ink screens could tak...

You may not know Hartmut Esslinger, but you've probably seen the impact of his philosophy almost every day for over 30 years. In 1982 Esslinger's Frogdesign began to work with Apple and kicked off a relationship that mol...

benonemusic writes "Three computer scientists at Stony Brook University in New York believe they have found some rules through a computer program that might predict which fiction books will be successful. Their algorithm...

CES 2014 has officially ushered in the era of 4K. While the video format also known as Ultra HD made its first big splash at last year's show, the TVs were expensive, the technology wasn't fully formed, and the question ...

The Basis B1 band is an activity tracker that's marketed to help busy people fit exercise into their everyday lives. I tested the device for a week to see if it lived up to this claim.

In a paper published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials today, researchers demonstrated the first optical isolator on silicon waveguide platforms.

Huawei's new Tron console was on display here at CES 2014, and we got the chance to go hands-on with the new Android console. Though Huawei is focused on the …

Vendors showed many wearable devices at the International CES expo, but the next big thing may just come from an enthusiast's garage. To find the next wearable hit, companies are turning to the community of individual te...

What it lacks in practicality, it makes up for in meatiness.     

It's incredibly thin but 100 times stronger than steel while still being flexible. It's transparent, can conduct electricity, can easily be made magnetic, and is cheap to make. This wonder material sounds like fiction, b...

It's usually pretty obvious that your mood has a strong effect on your willpower, motivation, and subsequent procrastination, but The Wall Street Journal explains exactly how our attempts at mood repair can derail produc...

Apple today updated its Apple Store app in the U.S., replacing the previously available Holiday Playlist with a new free app, the 7 Minute Workout Challenge. Seven minute workouts gained popularity in 2013 as a quick way...

I've previously reviewed MeteoEarth in its iOS incarnation, and found it a capable and useful weather app. One of the strong points of MeteoEarth has always been the quality of the graphics, largely because the company t...

I’ve become a bit jaded by the fact that most of the 4k TVs and computer monitors that I have seen cost thousands of dollars. I am in the market for a new TV, but you…

Shelf-stable foods and crops grown onsite form the menu of the crews at the Mars Desert Research Station in rural Utah.

The stunning space wallpaper depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova. What's left behind is a pulsar, called PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short).

France's equivalent of DARPA has a lofty task for you. The National Research Agency is challenging engineers to design and build an autonomous oil-drilling robot that can operate continuously for six weeks at a time. And...

Like lifting a giant veil, the near-infrared vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovers a dazzling new view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula. Hubble reveals a glittering treasure trove of more than 800,000 stars an...

Pure destruction. Top Gear wanted to see exactly what happens when a train smashes into a car stuck on the railroad tracks so they set up a test of their own: they put a minivan on the tracks and pummeled it with a speed...