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Mobile app Snapchat has announced a new feature called Geofilters. They're photo filters that become available to you whenever you're in a specific city or location. To unlock Geofilters, open the Snapchat app, then snap...

Active regions 2108 and 2109 are now passing around the limb of the Sun, but not before solar photography specialist Alan Friedman grabbed a few pictures of them on Friday! The image above, captured by Alan from his loca...

So, you love to spend the better part of your free time in the kitchen in order to whip up delicious meals? That works out great for some, and if you do have plenty of talent in that part of the home, then the rest of th...

The E.U.'s "right to be forgotten" law lets people remove links they don't want on Google - but does that just call attention to them?

In addition to buckets of paint, light fixtures and lumber, Home Depot customers now have access to another tool for home repair -- 3-D printers.

Google finds a partner to work on contact lenses with built-in sensors, LeapFrog creates a video game console for little kids, and Fitbit gets fashionable with Tory Burch jewelry.

Some people go under the knife to make a slight change here or there. Some do it to get an entirely new identity. The latter seems to be the case with GelaSkins. The mobile accessory case/skin manufacture has just launch...

The new Cridex version, aka Geodo, combines a self-spreading infection method-effectively turning each bot in the botnet into a vehicle for infecting new targets

It’s hard to force ourselves to wake up in the morning. We’re comfortable, warm, and in a stress-free environment. Who would want to leave that sort of thing, right? However, we do have to wake up and get on with our...

Real vegan cheese. An oxymoron, but maybe not for long. A group of biohackers, which is a thing now, reckon they can make cheese without milk. Better still, it apparently tastes like proper, legitimate cheese, and not so...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba increased its valuation to $130 billion in an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, less than a month from the company's initial public offering.

[From EntertainmentTell] A whole new reason to hate Comcast, the real Larry from "Orange is the New Black" speaks, and saying goodbye to the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope

Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet. Scientists have created a contest that invites anyone to use machine learning—the kind of computing that allows Facebook to spot your friends in phot...

She recently shot images of Chatillon Car Graveyard. Her photos of the abandoned cars resting there, many from more than 60 years ago, have already gone viral, the social networking media at blaze with ooohs and aaahs ab...

Sometimes I have to write stuff so I won’t forget how to do it. This is one of those times. In my recent post on the angular size of a soccer goal, I created a contour plot. Despite what you might think, I’m not a Je...

Based on the way most laptops sound, I'd venture a guess that audio is the last thing engineers think about when they design laptops. In fact, I'd go one step further to speculate that marketing efforts drive most laptop...

You may not want to use your hotel's business center to check email on your next big trip. The Secret Service has warned the hospitality business that thieves are installing keyloggers on hotel PCs to steal guests' data....

Space weather impacts many modern-day technologies, but one of the least reported is the increased radiation exposure to passengers on commercial long-distance flights during so-called "solar radiation storms."

ASPEN — Microsoft's energetic new hope Satya Nadella is still in his honeymoon period, judging by the warm reception he got at the Fortune Brainstorm tech conference Monday. But his animated conversation with Walter Is...

Battery life is a concern for anyone with a gadget, and as much as we want longer life -- it's just not happening on a hardware level. Companies like LG work clever software workarounds into devices like the G3, but the ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to develop a fully-reusable unmanned spaceplane, and they are now ready to start working their proposed Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1). The agency has put ...

China is looking to go electric with energy- and pollution-saving vehicles. The government has announced that by 2016, it wants at least 30 percent of government cars to be running on alternative energy.