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An anonymous reader writes in with this latest bit of EFF vs NSA news. 'We followed the back and forth situation earlier this year, in which there were some legal questions over whether or not the NSA needed to hang onto...

You thought mason jars were only good for catching fireflies, canning jam, or housing overpriced drinks at hipster bars. This musical mason jar might just prove you wrong.

Do you find yourself playing mobile games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga long after you know you should have stopped? If so, then there may be real scientific explanations for your addiction. The Guardian has an i...

If you told me this was a frame from Alien 5*--with some dude about to get into the dark corridor in which the xenomorph hides, waiting to kill him--I would totally believe you. In reality, it's another cool image by ast...

 Electronics retailer Radio Shack is teaming up with hardware manufacturer and accelerator PCH International to bring 6 square-foot “Powered by PCH” retail spaces to stores in the United States. This area will featu...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The man who created Slenderman, a spooky character popularized in short stories, video games and films, and an administrator of a website that collected the works expressed their condolences Wednesday t...

The classic puzzle game is 30 years old, but it's still changing (or not) with the times.

Strong cell-to-cell bonds are important to heart health and fighting cancer. The bonds connecting heart cells have to withstand constant forces caused by continuous pumping. And, in some cancers, bonds no longer resist f...

If you ask us, Intel's "Llama Mountain" design -- a PC even thinner than the iPad -- is already pretty futuristic. "Futuristic" might be an inaccurate word, though, considering that thing (or devices like it) will arrive...

For decades, scientists have tried to understand the complex and gruesome relationship between the parasitic emerald wasp Ampulex compressa and its much larger victim, the common household cockroach Periplaneta americana...

It was the briefest of chances to pick up the new Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi, a laptop and tablet hybrid that looks to rival the Macbook Air for thinness, but it was the only all week to examine one of the hottest pr...

Price: $85 With the classic maple wood SPGBK White Party 2.0 on your wrists, having a check on time will not be a mundane task for you anymore. The white dial together with gold markings makes this entire timepiece a sty...

 In his first speaking engagement at tonight’s StartX event since Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, the messaging service’s co-founder Brian Acton talked about WhatsApp’s big “F” word (focus), how pe...

The NSA document leaker joins Google, Mozilla, Reddit, and many others in a campaign and day of action that aims to help Internet users "take back" their privacy.

An ingredient found in the artificial sweetener Truvia is shown to be a safe insecticide while nontoxic to humans. Fruit flies that consume Truvia die within a day, researchers say.

Short, customized carbon nanotubes have the potential to deliver drugs to pancreatic cancer cells and destroy them from within, according to researchers. Pristine nanotubes produced through a new process can be modified ...

Bioengineers are developing an efficient test to detect signs of HIV and its progress in patients in low-resource settings. The current gold standard to diagnose HIV in infants and to monitor viral load depends on lab eq...

Many of the legal and ethical options for refusing unwanted interventions are not available to people with dementia because they lack decision-making capacity. But one way for these people to ensure that they do not live...

More insights into why older women are more susceptible to breast cancer has been gained by researchers. They found that as women age, the cells responsible for maintaining healthy breast tissue stop responding to their ...

A new study describes how exposure to air pollution early in life produces harmful changes in the brains of mice, including an enlargement of part of the brain that is seen in humans who have autism and schizophrenia. Th...

Losing legs was just the start of snakes' bizarre journey - to switch from barely being alive to eating an antelope takes re-engineering at the molecular level (full text available to subscribers)

[From GadgeTell] The Southeast Asian smartphone market is continuing to grow and sales in that market have grown by 43 percent in the past year.