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It's time to get in shape, so suggests Magellan with their newest smart sports watch Echo Fit. This smartwatch is able to track your activity, track your sleep, and look like a relatively non-obtrusive piece of machinery...

Kickstarter backers really, really want to fill 100 water balloons in a minute. They express their joy by pouring money into an entertaining water-balloon gadget project.

A tourist at Yellowstone National Park reportedly crashed a drone into the famous and picturesque Grand Prismatic hot spring.

People with anorexia may be receiving positive reinforcement from their weight loss. Researchers found that along with negative emotions, women who suffer from anorexia may have positive feelings from pride in maintainin...

A tourist at Yellowstone National Park accidentally crashed a drone into one of the park's most popular hot springs on Saturday. Drones are banned at all US national parks, but the blanket rule hasn't done much to stop v...

With over 900 deaths since March 25, the World Health Organization has declared this the worst Ebola outbreak in history, and governments around the world are acting to protect the health of their citizens.

Scientists have associated daily aspirin use with a reduction in certain types of cancers and lowered risk for heart attacks.

Swordplay in film and literature today is rooted in technique from a time when swords were commonplace.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa prompted U.S. health regulators to green-light Ebola vaccines that are currently being tested for fast-track approval status. A vaccine could be available by 2015.

Dwarf stars survive supernovae, a trick we may need in a few billion years Researchers operating the Hubble Telescope have observed a rare supernova explosion that leaves behind what scientists call a "zombie" star....

[From GamerTell] The DacMagic XS does a fantastic job, depending on what you plug it into.

Dark matter makes up much of the universe, and surrounds us all like an invisible soup. Physicists have hunted dark matter particles for decades, but they continue to elude observation.

A cache of recently acquired video games at the Library of Congress turned up a true find: the source code for unreleased PSP game Duke Nukem: Critical Mass.

Even though Sprint is likely not happy about canceling its reportedly planned takeover of T-Mobile USA, in a brief statement, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler approved of Sprint's move. The post FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is relie...

Texas is offering the private space company SpaceX more than $15 million in incentives to build a new launch facility at the southernmost tip of the Lone Star State.

 CryptoLocker is some nasty stuff. It is a type of malware that, when run, begins encrypting your entire disk and then requests a certain fraction of a bitcoin to decrypt it. The software began circulated in 2013 and re...

When it comes to metadata the federal government appears to have learnt nothing and forgotten everything. Statements this week by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis display the same confusion ...

Online daters continue to express outrage about the revelation that OkCupid has been experimenting on users by telling them they matched well with people they had nothing in common with to see if they still got on anyway...

What happens when you drop a feather and a hammer on the moon?

Virtual currency will have state bank backing Ecuador has decided a state-backed digital currency might help it to avoid a financial crisis....

Blinds go up, blinds go down, hotel manager has no why Black Hat 2014 A security consultant staying in the St Regis hotel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen got bored one night and successfully commandeered the controls of ...

Sony has been slapped with a lawsuit over the resolution of the game Killzone: Shadow Fall. The reason? It doesn't run at native 1080p in multiplayer mode, something the lawsuit claims Sony misled customers about. The pl...