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Price: $250 The Essential Black Watch designed by Julien Gueuning for Greyhours is a classic that stands apart as a unique breed while still embodying the best of today's popular culture and watchmaking technology. Inste...

THE science of synthetic biology took an important step forward this week with the announcement in Science, by a team from Jef Boeke's laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, of the first completely synthet...

Amidst the Google Glass backlash , two pilots at Adventia European College of Aeronautics in Spain set an aviation milestone as they wore Google Glass in the cockpit for the first time using special tools that demonstrat...

Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR has brought attention to its co-founder Palmer Luckey and the Southern California tech scene where his company took root.     

Jerseygirlinfl asked the Answer Line forum if photos floating around the Internet could contain mailware. Cybercriminals use images in a number of ways to infect your computer. In most cases, the photo itself is harmless...

In what is easily one of the stranger twists in the military takeover of Crimea, the Russians have seized control of Ukraine's navy dolphin fleet. Yes, dolphins. The annals of dolphin military history is actually teeming...

The maker of binoculars and spotting scopes has a $145 adapter that turns your fancy smartphone into a camera with a supertelephoto lens.     

Yes, smartphones can generate digital coins, but at a painfully glacial pace.

Light speed is no limit in the quantum world - so why can't we exploit that freedom? Perhaps because we're living in the dead husk of a richer cosmos (full text available to subscribers)     

Light waves can be defined by three fundamental characteristics: their color (or wavelength), polarization, and direction. While it has long been possible to selectively filter light according to its color or polarizatio...

Rumors have been circulating for years that Microsoft was working on a version of Office for the iPad, with speculation getting so intense at one point that the company went out of its way to categorically deny it. Still...

Twitter was recently banned in Turkey over failure to remove certain content, something that resulted in a backlash and, as of yesterday, legal ruling that it must be reversed. It …

Google has released its latest Transparency Report, and in it is a reflection of our increasingly digital world. The number of data requests in the last half of 2013 was …

Astronomers have found a new dwarf planet far beyond Pluto's orbit, suggesting that this distant realm contains millions of undiscovered objects — including, perhaps, a world larger than Earth. The newfound celestial b...

jfruh (300774) writes "The latest developments in the sad saga of Mt. Gox's missing bitcoins: the exchange has announced that it's working with Japanese police to try to determine who (if anyone) stole the bitcoins entru...

This is absolutely fantastic. A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder -- which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe hea...

There are rumors that Christian Bale would play Steve Jobs in the good Jobs movie--written by Aaron Sorkin. But who can play the awesome Steve Wozniak? He's one of my personal heroes and I'm having a hard time imagining ...

Salamanders in the U.S. won't have a problem staying trim through the summer, although it won't be thanks to a trendy new diet. Evidence suggests that North American salamanders are shrinking, and scientists are pointing...

Always expect the unexpected when it comes to the world of tech, and that is why Twitter is all the more special to use since a couple of new mobile features have been introduced to the masses today – where one of them...

At the 2014 Game Developers Conference, Sony proclaimed that virtual reality was the future of gaming — and introduced the Project Morpheus virtual reality headset to back up that claim. Perhaps you were following alo...

Work begins on Athena, a $19 million project that seeks to create artificial organs that work in concert inside a human-like test dummy that could reduce reliance on animal testing.     

The pursuit of an absolutely minimal wallet leads some to just wrap an elastic band around their plastic cards and cash. But many of us still need a little more structure than that, and that's what the Flexy delivers, wi...