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Catchy songs are infectious, so you shouldn't feel bad if you've spent the last six months muttering about being all about that bass. Treatments for this persistent condition normally include either playing the track on ...

If you need masses of storage but like your laptop's performance super-fast, then this new SSD may scratch your itch. With 6 terabytes of storage, this is the world's largest capacity 2.5-inch SSD (for now).

The trend in the first quarter was upward for Apple and downward for Samsung. But the reality for all contenders is that overall shipments declined from a year ago -- a first in more than half a decade.

When you've spent most of your career living the cubicle life, it can be a tricky transition when you decide that you want to work remotely. For starters, how do you even find a job that allows you to work from home in y...

The Curiosity rover's MastCam has returned pictures of a blue sunset on the Red Planet.

Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have managed to store light that propagates in an optical fiber and to release it later on demand. By causing interaction between the traveling light and a few thous...

It's the ultimate estimation game: How many pieces of paper would it take to print the entire Internet?

A friend recently returned from a trip with his wife to Seoul, South Korea, where she was traveling for business. During a sightseeing adventure, they visited an area heavily trafficked by tourists. He was astounded …

Industry shift to free apps sharpens marketing pitch to players who might be coaxed to spend $50 or $100 a month on "in-game" goodies.

The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are better resolved in a new sequence of images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 3 and 4, 2015. The images were taken from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kil...

LONDON — Meet Sally, an incredibly sinister housekeeper and nanny who's actually a robot. Sally will cook your supper, lead your children off to bed, and probably go haywire and destroy you in the night. She's the late...

A new, high-tech cane for the blind is designed to recognize the faces of the person's friends and family members.

The underlying physical process that creates striking "breaking wave" cloud patterns in our atmosphere also frequently opens the gates to high-energy solar wind plasma that perturbs Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphe...

Four days after mentioning the update to the public, Google is now pushing Android 5.1.1 to the Nexus 9 tablet. This HTC-made device suffered apparent issues in-between Android 5.0 and this newest update, and this newest...

Astronomers have been arguing over just how many spiral arms our Galaxy exhibits. Is the Milky Way a four or two-armed spiral galaxy? Astronomers had often assumed the Milky Way was potentially a four-armed spiral galaxy...

Photographers often use products such as the Lens Skirt when shooting through windows in order to reduce or remove reflections. Thanks to advances in computer algorithms, those physical tricks may soon find themselves al...

Ahead of our full review, here are 61 sample images taken with the new Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS lens. The Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS is a 10x super-zoom lens for the Sony A-series full-frame compact system came...

Carphone Warehouse is launching its "iD" mobile network tomorrow, and in preparation it's revealed new details about its contracts and how they differ from the competition. For starters, they'll be separated into four ti...

Ever wondered what astronauts do when they need to evacuate their bowels and bladder? In this video, Samantha Cristoforetti explains how a trip to the toilet works aboard the International Space Station.

Razer loves to announce BIG, INDUSTRY SHAKING gadgets only to immediately scale them down. The company's first laptop started life as a handheld game console . Its first tablet originally had handlebars . The Nabu X is R...

Russia joins China in seeking technological independence from the US.

Lenovo just can't catch a break these days. Just after another reported security flaw in its pre-installed software, the world's largest PC makers is once again the target of criticism over its newly launched LaVie Z 360...