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Apple's Health app in iOS 8 lets you view the health and fitness information third-party apps and devices collect, but exactly how do you get that data into Health?

MB Chronowing from Hewlett-Packard seems more watch than smart. And ahead of its launch next week, the first close-up images and in-depth details about the wearable have emerged. HP was thought to be in the running for b...

What exactly did Whisper hand over to the Pentagon?

A recent Facebook posting alerted me to this Flickr page, where in 2004 a woman named Lyza Danger uploaded a photograph (shown above) of a local supermarket (a Fred Meyer in Portland). After posting to Flickr, Danger ope...

All that talk about robots rising up to become our high-tech overlords is pretty far-fetched--or is it? Sure, that Roomba keeping your floors clean isn't very menacing (except maybe to this dog), and you're not losing sl...

NEW YORK — DJ and producer David Guetta revved his engine for his latest music video, getting behind the wheel of a race car to create "Dangerous." The elaborate seven-minute video, which the multiplatinum artist debut...

An anonymous reader writes: For over two years there's been a Freedreno driver project that's been reverse-engineering Qualcomm's Adreno graphics hardware. Freedreno consists of both a user-space Gallium3D driver providi...

As smartwatches flood the market, each seems to try to do more than the last. A brighter screen, a more contextual set of alerts, maybe even a working relationship with other apps or devices. Within that spectrum ,there ...

Don't get mad, ladies. Make a good joke. For just $50, the Delicious Women's Ph.D. Darling Sexy Costume on Amazon takes sexist Halloween costumes to a new level. Not only does a respected profession become a dizzy Hallow...

In Canada, a judge rejects the defense that once you are doing something in public, you have no right to privacy.

[From GamerTell] If you downloaded PS4 update 2.00, I'm sorry. Don't put your system in Rest mode. Turn it off and wait for a fixed update.

Amazon's workforce demographics show it's not quite as monochromatic as some others in the industry, but still short on women and minorities.

Step right up, fanboys and girls: the relentless data designers at Pop Chart Lab have updated their Insanely Great History of Apple print, and it is a doozy featuring over 500 items from the Cupertino fruit slinger.

Pioneering filmmaker James Cameron recently expressed his middling opinion of Oculus Rift and the state of virtual reality at a Wall Street Journal panel. The post James Cameron, the man who brought us Avatar, isn’t im...

Smarter Every Day takes an in-depth look at something super cool: removing tattoos with the help of lasers. The science behind it is fascinating, all the zapping lasers do is basically break down the bigger ink blobs ins...

It's an ultra-creepy episode of The 404 today -- way creepier than normal. Will Seth Rogen play Steve Wozniak? Can an app pinpoint your death? Why would you want Starbucks delivered to your house?

Adapted from Wikimedia Commons "Everything is in flames, -- the sky with lightning, -- the water with luminous particles, and even the very masts are pointed with a blue flame." -- Charles Darwin, 1832 "... sometime I'l...

A bright synchrotron source that emits over a wide part of the electromagnetic spectrum from the infrared to hard X-rays is currently being built in Lund, Sweden. The MAX IV facility presents a range of technical challen...

Last month GoPro introduced a new lineup of products. This includes two new top-of-the-line GoPros and the company's first entry-level camera.

The TenOne Pogo Stylus focuses on getting the little things right

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago....

The explosion of an Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket seconds after liftoff Oct. 28 will likely have a modest near-term effect on NASA and international space station operations, but a far greater one on the future o...