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Fall: the time of year when leaves remind us of our mortality, their rapid change of colors being a not-so-subtle metaphor for our own decay. What better way to honor the fleetingness of life than to spend hours in a vir...

Breaking up is hard to do. Harder yet when there's a deactivation period. The post How to Make a Clean Break With the Clingiest Social Networks appeared first on WIRED.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad "Dream On" at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump's ...

The nine-to-give grind has created a cult of workaholics. Lawyers, consultants and investment bankers pride themselves on putting in 12-hour days, and those of us who can get by working eight hours consider ourselves luc...

How many times have you wanted to yell at Donald Trump, "DONNIE, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT"? Well luckily, The Big Lebowski's Walter Sobchak is here to do it for you. In this mashup to end all mashups, Walter responds t...

Get beyond the cacophony of jangling keys with the Brown Leather and Wool Felt Key Organizer by S-Key. Designed and manufactured with your everyday routine in mind, the strong metal clasp of the S-Key design won't fail y...

Microsoft and Dell added a slew of new products to their portfolios this week. But those aren't the only additions to the industry over the past seven days. Netflix added a dollar to the price of its popular streaming se...

Mike Hopkins sells an ice maker that stores energy. It's not sexy technology, he notes. But his Santa Barbara-based business, Ice Energy, is growing fast. Greg Smith touts a more space-age approach to energy storage at S...

NVIDIA's hopes to tie up Samsung and Qualcomm in an expensive sales ban over mobile graphics chips has hit a roadblock. The company had sought an injunction from the United States International Trade Commission, alleging...

The News app in iOS 9 is officially available only in the US, but you can still access stories when you're traveling abroad... unless you're visiting China, that is. A New York Times source understands that Apple has com...

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Ridesharing services are big in China, but they've run into many of the same regulatory concerns you see everywhere else -- officials are worried about holding drivers accountable for their behavior. Accordingly, the cou...

Besides high temperatures, wind and dry conditions, Australian firefighters have one more thing to worry about this summer: Drones. A mid-air collision between a civilian drone and a firefighting plane or helicopter coul...

Registering to vote in the state of California just got a lot easier. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Saturday that allows people in the state to be automatically registered to vote when they apply for a driver's l...

One of the big factors to game engine Unity's success is that for awhile it ran on basically any platform be it Oculus, PS Vita or home consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But according to the developer, recent...

In the wake of a horrific suicide bombing in the Turkish capital city of Ankara today, Twitter said that users across the country were struggling to access the social network. Scattered reports suggest that internet acce...

Most prototype self-driving cars are designed for comfort, not performance. After all, wouldn't you want to take the wheel if you really wanted a thrill? Rinspeed thinks there's a case to be made, though: it just teased ...

"Holy smokes, Batman. Let's take a selfie." While those words may not have been actually said at New York Comic Con this weekend, posing for photos with extravagantly detailed costumes very much was one of the most popul...

Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University have developed a new type of soft bionic finger that can move like the ones on your hand. In order to come up with the most authentic-looking design, they downloaded a CAD...

Earlier this week, we learned that Earth's coral reefs are in the midst of a massive dieoff , triggered by abnormally hot temperatures in ocean basins worldwide. It's hardly the first time in recent history that we've wi...

Griot: Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and...

A group of expensive Cisco Network Switches released a few years ago set a new bar for boneheaded industrial design. Sure, it’s pretty frustrating to potentially damage your Galaxy Note 5 by inserting the stylus the ...