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The Parrot Flower Power Plant Sensor is an intelligent wireless plant sensor connected to a smartphone app via Bluetooth. The app comes with a library of more than 7,000 plants that tells you everything you want to know ...

In a letter to employees, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong reversed the company's recent decision to change some 401(k) benefits.

NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals. Initial proposals are due tomorrow for the Lunar Cargo Transportation ...

Music surround formats never really caught on, and now the appeal of listening to five or more speakers for movies is fading fast.

An anonymous reader writes "My boyhood hero, actor Leonard Nimoy, has developed lung disease. To those still smoking and in the grips of marketing induced denial, he says 'quit now.' Small acts of goodness make the unive...

Flappy Bird went from obscurity to chart-topping success overnight, but that's all coming to an end. After over 50 million downloads, developer Dong Nguyen said on Twitter that he's going to take the incredibly tough gam...

It's safe to say GoPro's camera business is quite successful -- and there are plenty of things which prove this to be the case. Still, GoPro doesn't want to stop there, so much so that it has now started the process to t...

If there is one thing about YouTube, it would be this – all of the videos are free to watch as there is no subscription fee for the masses (generally speaking, of course), although certain videos do require you to key ...

A pretty capable workstation that can fit in the palm of your hand.     

Grumpy Cat is probably more likely to scratch your eyes out than send a valentine. But if she is going to express affection, it will be in the only way she knows how. If you're anything like Grumpy, all this lovey-dovey ...

I am quite sure that those of us who grew up on a steady diet of James Bond films would have seen the many kinds of amazing technical wizardry that the British superspy was endowed with, where we would have killed to be ...

With two corporations, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, already delivering supplies to NASA's International Space Station, a golden age may be at hand for private space firms.

In a bid to raise awareness over criminal proceedings against alleged hackers in Singapore linked to Anonymous, the hacktivist group called for its second tweetstorm in a month.

It's tempting to imagine that Edward Snowden obtained NSA data through a daring Mission Impossible-style raid, but it now appears that he didn't have to put in much effort. Intelligence officials speaking to the New York...

GPS is a godsend when it works. Problem is, there are plenty of places it doesn't work--tall skyscrapers, concrete overpasses, and other huge structures all block the satellite signal you need to navigate. Luckily, Swiss...

According to The Wall Street Journal, the next time you search for a chicken dinner on Yahoo you could be served up a Yelp review for the best bird in your hood. According to the paper's source, Yahoo CEO Marisa Mayer an...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. A new theory is forcing us to reconsider one of life's big questions -- are we alone? Perhaps, it's more appropriate to ask...

tsu doh nimh writes "State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal businesses moving large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency. E...

Most, if not all of the time, patches introduced to software and games are supposed to be a positive thing – you get better performance, bugs are squashed, and everyone is happy. Unfortunately, Murphy's Law does seem t...

When it comes to search engines, it goes without saying that Google is still the top dog after all these years, and the company does not look as though they are going to relinquish that crown anytime soon. In fact, Micro...

Nemo the Magnificent writes "A few days ago we talked over a post by David Raphael accusing Verizon of slowing down Netflix, by way of throttling Amazon AWS. Now Jonathan Feldman gives us reason to believe that the carri...

Today in the rarely discounted/most desired items we cover category, we've got great deals on both the iPad Mini Retina and the Kindle Paperwhite. Best Buy is the proprietor of both discounts, knocking $50 off all iPad M...