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Nowadays, we spend nearly 6 hours each day staring at a display, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. After looking at screens all day, your eyes may start to feel a bit off, which means you may be suf...

Defense technology blog Ares reports on a mysterious flying object--most certainly a military classified aircraft--flying over the skies of Amarillo, Texas, on March 10. Aviation Week's defense expert Bill Sweetman says ...

Australian designer Marc Newson talked to Dezeen about his new line of glasses that will launch in Milan next month and the conversation unsurprisingly lead to Google's smart take on eyewear. The designer took the chance...

colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source p...

A small update to Google's app bar lets fans rearrange their Google apps.     

Microsoft's Office Mobile apps for Android and iPhone are now completely free for all home users. The company has done away with the need for an Office 365 subscription, opening up the full document viewing and editing c...

Switching fonts on their documents could save the federal and state governments up to $400 million a year, according to a sixth-grader.

NASA, on Thursday, released an image of a comet that is expected to pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and the moon -- on Oct. 19, and the finding could help scientists determin...

Amazon says it has no "plans" for an ad-supported streaming video service.

(Phys.org) --When you were learning to ride a bicycle you thought gravity was your enemy, trying to make you fall over. But without gravity, you wouldn't be able to steer, say Cornell engineers. To demonstrate the concep...

We have been hearing quite a number of rumors lately regarding the Sony A77's successor, which at the moment is currently tipped to be the A77II. According to earlier rumors, apparently the camera is due for an announcem...

Olympus's OMD EM10 is one of the best entry level cameras that you can get your hands on.     

Philips' hue system of smart home lighting is already pretty eye-catching when it cycles through colors, but the company is turning to 3D printing to make things even more dramatic. …

Nutria, the furry rodents with ratlike tails and two bright-orange front teeth, reproduce at astounding rates. In Louisiana, they have consumed acres of native flora and exposed broad swaths of marsh to erosion by tides ...

Here's some bad news for BlackBerry users: if you frequently rely on apps like BlackBerry Newssstand or BlackBerry News to access your magazines or news, you will be disappointed to learn that BlackBerry has announced th...

If there's one thing about pre-order is that you'd have to wait for the product to be released at its given date and time before you are able to get your hands on it. Sure, you might have secured the product ahead of eve...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down another social network on Thursday, blocking access to YouTube just a week after banning Twitter. And, despite a history of public demonstrations, Turkish people ha...

Mark Zuckerberg is putting together a lab where a team of Facebook engineers will build flying drones, satellites, and infrared lasers capable of beaming internet connections to people down here on earth.     

Jay Larsen was towing a chirping sonar device three miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, trolling the Bermuda Triangle for lost artifacts, when he discovered a trove of buried treasure that had spent more tha...

If Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst makes it up to the gates of Heaven, God's probably going to ask about this. The Limburg, Germany bishop reportedly resigned on Wednesday after a 108-page report by Germany's Catholi...

Another day, another advance in 3-D printing technology.Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human's skull with a 3-D printed plastic one -- and likely saved...

Just because phone companies keep the data doesn't mean NSA won't have broad access.