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It certainly won’t surprise anyone to hear that a smartphone’s battery burst or caught fire. There have been a lot of those incidents, and the device doesn’t necessarily have to be old to suffer such a fate. Last y...

Nerval's Lobster writes "Which football team will win the Super Bowl this weekend? That's a multi-million-dollar question, given the amount of cash people will bet on either the Seattle Seahawks or the Denver Broncos to ...

Fresh off winning Best Original Song for "Ordinary Love" at last month's Golden Globe Awards, U2 is teasing 60 seconds of its new song "Invisible" during a Super Bowl ad break. Facebook users, however, can get a an early...

What's this? A plug-in loudspeaker? An external flash? A retina scanner? No, it's the utterly bizarre Scentee, an aroma-generating thingamabob that gives your smartphone scent notifications. And, starting today, it's ava...

Apple's iBeacon is suddenly in the news a lot, and will soon show up at major sporting events, big retail stores and elsewhere. The beacon revolution is being presented as an Apple thing for Apple users. But as with so�...

While we found the S7 a "near perfect" machine, one of our gripes was that Acer didn't offer any versions with a 2,560 x 1,440 high-res display in the US. Now the company is dropping off Wide Quad High-definition (WQHD) ...

swellconvivialguy writes "Fifty-five years ago, nine young Russians died under suspicious circumstances during a winter hiking trip in the Ural mountains. Despite an exhaustive investigation and the recovery of the group...

Remember when Felix Baumgartner had the world on the edge of its seat with his daredevil Red Bull Stratos jump? Well, if you don't, and you're watching the big game this weekend, you'll likely get a good reminder thanks ...

I was blown away when I first heard about a project that tried to tap into the electromagnetic communication potential of mushrooms. Using wires, radio waves, and circuits--not psychedelics--the project's off-kilter ques...

There's one whole heck of a lot of disagreement this season on how Call of Duty: Ghosts aught to be reviewed. While we didn't find it all that terrible, quite …

It's not every day we here at TechCrunch just point to someone else's work and say, "Here, you should go read this." But today's an exception, because The Economist has put together a 16-page Special Report on the rise o...

[From AppleTell] This weekend's GOG promo has little to offer Mac gamers, but their new titles feature Octodad: Deadliest Catch and a return to 2000 with SiN Gold.

In an ad featuring a voiceover from former NFL player Steve Gleason, who now suffers from ALS, Microsoft surfaces empowerment that might remind some of an old Microsoft campaign.

After travelling to 16 countries in three months, Sarah Chang has picked up a few cool travel tips. The most important tip: make sure you have all your information on your phone, ready for offline access. She suggests ma...

A few days ago, Facebook introduced Paper: a mobile app that will turn your Facebook news-feed into a brand new visual experience

Social media is now an ever-present part of how we perceive and use the internet. We do notice the novelty is wearing of fast. So time to permanently add an extra dimension to social networking. Kiiroo will add a tactile...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists have identified, for the first time, a way in which the decreased functional connectivity seen in the brain of many people with autism can come about: it can be caused b...

(University of Iowa) Watch out, infection. University of Iowa researchers have crated a probe that can identify staph bacteria before symptoms appear. The probe is noninvasive and is expected to be cheaper and faster tha...

BMW has taken the wraps off of its latest pseudo-coupe, the 4 Series Gran Coupé, promising the style of the company's traditional two-door models but the practicality that comes with …

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is visually stunning. And the closer you examine, the more exquisite details you'll find. That's what Dave Addey has done in his in-depth, scene-by-scene examination of how this ci...

Neither snow nor distance between Supercharger stations could stay a pair of Model S sedans from their appointed three-day rally between LA and New York.

30 years ago. The Los Angeles Raiders are slaughtering the Washington Redskins at halftime. You decide it's time for a refill on your Crystal Light. You're headed to the kitchen when something stops you in your tracks--a...