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The first eight seasons of The Simpsons represent an absolute tour de force of quick-witted comedy. All the more impressive is that the show’s earlier seasons still hold up today, a remarkable feat which speaks to the ...

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few hours, then you know today is Back to the Future Day. In the trilogy's second film, Michael J. Fox's character Martin Seamus McFly, better known as Marty, gave us a...

Several years ago Misfit announced the Shine fitness tracker. The device was small, about the size of a coin, and when placed into a strap, it basically turned it into a wristband that could track your fitness activities...

Devices that launched with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box will be required to have full-disk encryption enabled. In addition to this, the mandatory full disk encryption should be completed prior to the setup proc...

Google Maps just got even more awesome with its v9.16 update. Google added in a lot of nifty features that will greatly help during road trips and make it next to impossible to not find what you need.

Today NIKE has confirmed that the first-ever pair of real self-lacing NIKE MAG sneakers (from Back to the Future II) are out there. They're really, truly out there. Whether or not they'll actually be on sale any time soo...

Apple Store employee Ruben Profit scammed his way into about US$1 million in Apple gift cards and now is facing the wrath of New York's legal system and his employer. Police reports say he used fraudulent Visa and Americ...

Today is 21 October 2015 - the date Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in Back to the Future Part II. Can we reconcile the films with reality?

Google knows...well, everything about you. At least everything there is to know about you from your online activities. Selling what Google knows is how the company makes its money, after all. But sometimes Google giveth ...

This week the folks at Twitter are releasing "Twitter Polls", a way to gauge interest in topics without a large amount of commitment from users. This system will be coming to iOS, Android, and desktop (web browser) versi...

The year of smartwatches continues to roll on, as a new set of fitness-focused wearables have just been announced by Garmin. This includes three new watches in the company's Forerunner line, all with GPS, heart rate moni...

Almost two years after it was ordered to stop selling its DNA analysis service by the US Food and Drug Administration, genetic testing company 23andme is set to announce that it will once again provide its customers with...

Citizen Lab says the Houthi rebels got help from Netsweeper to censor news and political websites.

Suunto has long designed watches for hardcore outdoor athletes, like divers, climbers and runners. It's now making bigger a play for more everyday lifestyle adventurers and explorers. A few weeks ago, we saw the Traverse...

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 17, Page 1668-1669, October 2015.

We turn to science, science fiction, and hypotheses between the two, to speculate what could be floating around mystery star KIC 8462852.

While the Internet adoption has spread rapidly around the globe, women in developing countries aren't benefiting as much as men.

Australian photographer Richard Simpkin isn’t exactly a celebrity, but you could be tricked into thinking so if you look at his personal photo album. Simpkin has spent over 25 years collecting photos of himself posing ...

On the day that Jay Z and his partners introduced Tidal to the world, it was clear they wanted the streaming music service to be all things to all people. On Tuesday night at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Tidal X 1020, a c...

U.S. marijuana use has more than doubled in 10 years, in parallel with the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana use.

The U.S.’s measly stockpile of plutonium is barely adequate for missions planned for the next decade --

Around the human ear are tiny, weak muscles that once would have let evolutionary ancestors pivot their ears to and fro. Today, the muscles aren't capable of moving much -- but their reflex action still exists.