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Price: $167 The MiP is the world's first balancing robot you could control with simple hand gestures. It's one of the recent stalwarts from the robotics industry that enjoys human interaction to the fullest. Balancing it...

From the highs of the Steve Jobs portrait made out of 20lbs of electronic waste, to the lows of the hideous statue that looked like a totem from Hellraiser, there have certainly been some “uneven” tributes to Apple�...

A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts.

According to an Oklahoma Senator, much of the information provided by the National Technology Information Service can be found through Google for free -- and he's put together a bill to close it down. The post The ‘Let...

Popular photo-sharing site Instagram was not working Saturday, as frustrated users quickly turned to social network Twitter and other web sites to share their complaints.

Twelve weeks of an investigational oral therapy cured hepatitis C infection in more than 90 percent of patients with liver cirrhosis and was well tolerated by these patients, according to an international study that incl...

Who would have thought mist to be the key element that marries interaction to technology? Take a look at the innovative MisTable, the brainchild of Professor Sriram Subramanian and Dr …

Despite frozen shutters and cracking film, Victor Rogus captured the 2000 lunar eclipse.

Astrophysicists are getting to the depth of dark matter.

Looking to disrupt the smartphone market and take on both Apple and Samsung, retail giant Amazon may be working on a new mobile phone that used multiple front-facing cameras to display 3D images on the screen. The post R...

To make sure the (very expensive) equipment we're sending to Mars don't crash into the ground, NASA's putting its huge supersonic parachutes through a grueling test. Wait, what do parachutes have to do with Mars missions...

Infamous Internet troll and "iPad hacker" Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer will get out of jail early, after a circuit judge vacated his sentence on Friday. More than a year ago, Auernheimer was found guilty and sentenced to 3 ...

Many already thought that the "Heartbleed" security flaw in OpenSSL could be used to steal SSL keys from a server, but now there's proof. This is important because if someone stole the private decryption key to servers u...

This morning, content distribution network Cloudflare gave some hope to those affected by the Heartbleed security flaw with an announcement that the bug might not be as bad as feared. In two weeks of testing, Cloudflar...

[From GamerTell] PAX South 2015 was announced at PAX East 2014.

If you were among those who pre-ordered the latest Samsung Wearables on Amazon, then you can take some joy in knowing that at least some of the orders have shipped with an estimated arrival time of Monday, April 14th.

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from The Consumerist: "Comcast and proposed merger partner Time Warner Cable claim they don't compete because their service areas don't overlap, and that a combined company would ha...

 Apple’s been on a bit of a buying spree lately. Embark! Cue! Burstly! If you had to guess the next thing Apple would take under its wing, what would it be? If you guessed “a hydroelectric power project in Central O...

The best apps we have installed and are excited about this week The weekend is a leisurely time where we all pull out our phones or tablets and find a new app or two to keep us entertained or productive. For that reason,...

For those looking to score a job at a hot tech startup or a coveted spot with a tech behemoth like Facebook or Square, the job search scene has an up-and-coming competitor to the traditional career fair: hackathons. Read...

We've all heard about how connected and self-driving cars from Google, BMW and others are going to change our lives, but how? Audi wants to find out with its Urban Future Award, a four-city, multidisciplinary competition...

This week's news was absolutely dominated by Heartbleed--what it is, how it's affecting people, and how to figure out if you're safe. We've got all of that, plus a computer that perfectly ages you, a time capsule house u...