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I’m really digging the Microsoft Band. I’ve worn various fitness trackers for a couple of years now, starting with the original Jawbone UP and most recently the new Fitbit Charge. I’ve had mixed results with them, ...

We've seen 3D printed maps, shoes and even 3D printed urns, but this next innovation may have just trumped them all...

Your iPhone 5, 5C and 5S experience can now be taken to a whole new level with the Little Aluminum Stand/Speaker Amplifier by Coogobox. Using this stand cum amplifier, you can position your device at a suitable angle for...

Dive deep into the unknown world of constellations right from your living room with the help of this Know Your Stars Lamp by UNIQCUBE. It's a floor lamp that features all the constellations with a vibrant lighting backdr...

The battle between hotels and hotspot-toting travelers isn't over just because Marriott settled a complaint that it blocked personal WiFi -- far from it. Google, Microsoft and a US carrier lobbying group (the Cellular Te...

While hunting, Weddell seals have biological adaptations that allow them to dive deep, as much as of hundreds of meters, but also an uncanny ability to find the breathing holes they need on the surface of the ice. Now, r...

Following closely after word surfaced of troubles in China and Taiwan, Uber has been hit with a pretty severe blow in South Korea, where the ridesharing service's CEO Travis Kalanick was indicted for allegedly violating ...

Hawaii lava flow stalls just short of shopping center, but lava upslope is active

Brian Sharples is CEO of vacation-rental company HomeAway, has sued San Francisco over rules that it says unfairly favor Airbnb.

PayPal is playing the role of Scrooge in Scotland, making enemies of a number of consumers and at least one merchant by on this pre-Christmas week. As first reported Monday by the Independent, the San Jose-based payments...

Opening emails can transmit a plethora of data to marketers and scammers, but there are solutions.

While some people still have doubts if the QS movement will indeed take off, many others are betting that it will. Here are seven ways that clearly show the odds are in favor of the QS movement.

Buried in the New York Times report on the ongoing investigation into the JPMorgan Chase data breach which compromised 83 million home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses is a tidbit about the National Security...

If the Internet of Things didn't quite proliferate in 2014, at least IoT industry groups and standards bodies did. At least five efforts at bringing order to IoT began in 2014, and another that launched in late 2013 foun...

In 2012, University of Pittsburgh researchers released a video of Jan Scheuermann feeding herself a bite of chocolate. This, of course, wouldn’t be noteworthy but for one thing: Scheuermann is...

Fans of Elon Musk and high-speed transit are sure to remember the Hyperloop. Back in 2013, Musk dropped the idea into the public mind with a paper that claimed that using the right technology, a high-speed train could ma...

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Google all have some updates that you're probably going to want to know about

While some of us might loathe being in the kitchen due to the potential health hazards, others absolutely love hanging around in the kitchen, thinking up of new ways to whip up various dishes that will delight the entire...

Up your Instagram game with these eye-popping accessories

[Note: The very first nonsense I had to debunk in 2014 was a claim that on January 4 of that year a planetary alignment would cause gravity to decrease, allowing you to float momentarily or fall more slowly if you jumped...

Set top boxes and media players do happen to play a rather important role in the life of couch potatoes all over the world, and so too is the Internet – where none of these are available, you can be sure that said couc...

It was our 14th expedition to the trenches of the Pacific Ocean, where depths can exceed 10,000m. And it was due to be our last for the foreseeable future.