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Google announced a new version of its low-cost Cardboard virtual-reality headsets today at its I/O developers conference, and it’s giving some attendees a wicked case of déj vu. Ashley Mayer, cloud-storage company Box...

The words "some assembly required" often strike fear into parents when they've bought their kid a new toy, but that's half the fun with Phil Conigliaro's new book called Colossal Paper Machines. The 128 pages of the mass...

Facebook and GIFs seem like they’ve both been fixtures of the Internet forever, but it has taken until 2015 for the two to finally hookup. Starting today, Facebook users can annoy friends with the most amazing GIFs the...

Robot sees, clears hurdles while bounding at 5 mph.

Google has announced its new mobile payment system, dubbed Android Pay. The system is set to become a quick success, holding a number of features over Google's previous mobile payment attempt, Google Wallet.

The Raintrain Traveling Sprinkler will traverse your lawn based on the pattern you lay out for it. The hose will allow you to cover it from ground and keeps your greenery well hydrated as and when required. There are 3 s...

One man is on a mission to make you laugh. Drew Lynch suffered nerve damage to his vocal chords after a softball accident, which left him struggling with his own speech. Lynch decided to take up comedy instead of feeling...

Google's R&D experts have developed a touch-sensitive fabric, and now, Levi's wants to put it in a pair of jeans.

The deadly heatwave that swept through India this week has melted streets with its searing 118-degree temperatures. But it's also making life even worse for its cities' most vulnerable residents--the millions of Indian c...

Earlier this month we brought you word of a secret diagnostic port on the Apple Watch that’s intended for Apple’s own internal use. However, that hasn’t stopped accessories manufacturers from designing their own Ap...

The U.K. government has not given up on the idea that its secret services must be given access to communications between individuals who are suspects in an ongoing investigation, even if said communications are protected...

Google's virtual reality ecosystem is now prepared to handle the public, with everything from low-cost VR headsets to YouTube 360. What we've got here is a full ecosystem, with the three main components ready to roll. Th...

Wearables may bring your digital life to your wrist but that doesn't make it any easier to interact with, a problem Google believes it may have solved. Handiwork of the Google ATAP team, the internal skunkworks cooking u...

I’ll say this right up front: what you're about to read is not a review of the Fujifilm X100T. That's a good thing, because I'm a lousy camera reviewer. So if that's what you're looking for, stop reading right now and ...

The holes in Swiss cheese lend it a very distinctive appearance. But new analysis reveals that they're not a result of gas produced bacteria in the cheese, or cheeky nibbling by mice--but something else entirely.

You know what happens in a real earthquake? A pause. And then slight confusion. And then frantically trying to remember what elementary school taught you on where you should go. And then panic because you don't remember....

One feature we were hoping Google would show off with Android M on Thursday was the inclusion of multi-window functionality that would let you have multiple apps open at once on the same screen. While that sadly didn’t...

See what's up in the night sky for June 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

When it comes to having a good pair of earphones, you would first need to sit down and consider just which particular situation are you going to listen to your music or audio book in – is it while you are relaxing in t...

Shrooms may be the answer to treat mental health disorders.

Last year Google made a big push to improve the overall look of its mobile platform thanks to the addition of Material Design, a slick new design language that added terrific animations and other features to Android. Via...

In the world of online dating, nothing is as it seems. But that doesn't stop many of us from leaping to the wrong conclusions about people. A recent paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communica...