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Swatch has been vocal in the recent past about its smartwatch ambitions, and its focus lies on the battery life -- arguably, the Achilles heel of wearables, something often poor enough that many have elected to hold out ...

If you are like us you will no doubt already have seen the latest Star Wars 7 trailer more than 20 times. Indeed, you might even have broken the 50 mark considering that it's been broadcast and embedded constantly since ...

I'm convinced Apple's newest device might actually be fun to play games on

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Smartwatches are creating enough of a stir in the classic watch world to get timepiece creators to pay attention. The latest classic watch to get the smart treatment is IWC Schaffausen with its smart strap upgrade. IWC C...

The main task of European Space Agency's Proba-V minisatellite is monitoring vegetation growth on our planet--but it also sees something a little higher in our atmosphere, too: signals from thousands of aircraft.

Daniel (Dani) Arnold on April 22 broke the speed-climbing record for the Matterhorn, ascending the north face of the iconic 14,692-foot peak in one hour and 46 minutes. In order to climb that fast, Arnold had to free-sol...

Linksys has announced that it's the first to ship a working MU-MIMO (multiple-user, multiple input, multiple output) router, the $280 Linksys Max-Stream AC2600 (aka the EA8500). That grumbling you're hearing is coming fr...

With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.

Fitbit courts investors with healthy results          

Many owners of the Apple Watch have noted a variety of problems with the new device. Users have posted about issues on a number of Web forums.

Keurig's K-Cups are a strange phenomenon in tech and coffee. Reviled by their creator, their DRM circumvented by creative coffee lovers, K-Cups stand as a necessary evil for many. Keurig's reasoning for DRM K-Cups was co...

A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into funda...

The latest tech from NASA just saved the lives of four people trapped in the rubble left from the recent earthquake in Nepal. NASA's FINDER (Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response) located people by usin...

After a chance discovery, a research team at the University of Houston have produced a reusable lens that turns your smartphone into a microscope. What's more, one costs just $5, and it's on Kickstarter right now. The po...

I’m addicted to my iPhone. Aren’t we all? The addiction is so deep and universal that CultCast host Erfon Elijah spent a good three minutes yesterday convincing my it’s totally ok to cruise Instagram from a urinal....

While AT&T has limited its throttling for unlimited 3G data to clogged-up networks, it hasn't been so kind to the LTE crowd. Go past 5GB of usage in a month and your high-speed connection would always slow down, no matte...

In March, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the NSA, claiming their surveillance program was overreaching and illegal. Today, a Federal Court of Appeals has agreed with that assertion, finding the NSA's practice of data c...

Today Android M was listed by Google in their collection of events for Google I/O. This is Google's yearly developers conference, one where it's common for Google to reveal a new flavor of Android - or at least major upd...

It started slowly. Just a little free Uber code from a friend and then you are watching those mini cars drive around the mini map like nobody's business. Sure, you've heard about the risks, but now you are too far gone. ...

Researchers can now spy on proteins at nearly the level of their individual atoms, thanks to a new microscope technique.

The planet's molten core became magnetic nearly 4 billion years ago - potentially making Mercury's magnetic field the most enduring in our solar system