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Sony has launched the PS Vita Slim in the US today, 6 May. The rejigged version of the PlayStation handheld has been available in Japan since the end of last year and in Britain from 7 February. Now it's available for ga...

Price: $18 KeySmart has revolutionized the way we carry keys. The unique an patented design shrinks your bulky key ring into an attractive, compact unit. Made from Aircraft Aluminum, Stainless Steel hardware, and Laser E...

Price: $499 Birdwatchers and hikers can finally enjoy macro-effect viewing in their trips with the introduction of the Leica Monovid Monocular. Having 8-fold magnification, this is the ideal tool for viewing the finest d...

The NASCAR inspired Plymouth Superbird is a motoring icon, and it is still generating excitement. A modern day version based on the Dodge Challenger hits the track with more than 1,000 horsepower headed to the rear wheel...

Household Hacker reminds shares a video with five uses for shaving cream, including one we didn't know: it can stop your doors from squeaking.

The White House will send a team to Nigeria to aid in the search for nearly 300 kidnapped teenage girls, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. See also: Bring Back Our Girls: Why the ...

Since posting stellar earnings last week, not to mention the announcement of a widely-expanded capital return program, shares of Apple have been on the rise in a major way. During the last three trading days alone, Apple...

The girls were relaxing in their dorms at the Government Girls Secondary School in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok when gunmen arrived in trucks, cars and on motorcycles. There were dozens of them — suspected jiha...

We're pretty tricky nowadays with our billions of colors, but Dutch masters weren't exactly chopped liver. As spotted by This Is Colossal, one patient individual even created a volume with individually painted watercolor...

Word on the Internet street says Olympus will update the EPL7 with EM10's sensor, AF system, and back LCD.

Symantec Corp., one of the biggest names in anti-virus software, shocked the cybersecurity community Sunday when it declared to the Wall Street Journal that antivirus software "is dead."

When a friend asks for money, you may soon be able to crane your eye up and speak to the cloud rather than hand them cash. Citing a "source close …

The House Judiciary Committee is getting ready to begin mark up procedures on the USA Freedom Act, a bill that would effectively end the NSA's mass surveillance program as it exists today. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin ...

The National Security Agency sent out a mysterious coded tweet Monday, which has since been deciphered.

In 2006, a team led by Ed Louis, Jr., a molecular biologist at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, identified fourteen new lemur species. The discovery was not made in some forgotten enclave of Madagascar, the only place where l...

For the first time, scientists have a clearer understanding of how to control the appearance of a superconducting phase in a material, adding crucial fundamental knowledge and perhaps setting the stage for advances in th...

Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications -- from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars. Like sonar or radar, terahertz ima...

When it comes to concussions, men may take longer to recover, and show more brain damage, than women do, a new study suggests.

The effects of climate change on Earth can be seen clearly in photos taken by satellites in space, and those images are vital tools in protecting our home planet, NASA chief Charles Bolden wrote today (May 6).

Authored by hundreds of scientists, the National Climate Assessment has found that human-induced climate change is taking a toll on the entire country

To close out their final week aboard the International Space Station, three of the six Expedition 39 crew members are completing their unloading tasks inside the docked commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter and other ...

The 1-ton Curiosity rover bored into a slab of Martian sandstone dubbed "Windjana" on Monday evening (May 5). Curiosity will use its scientific instruments to analyze the powder collected during this drilling operation i...