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In Germany, a team of researchers are preparing to switch on the largest nuclear fusion plant in the world. Hosted at the Max Planck Institute, the stellarator, also known as Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X),... is awaiting regulatory approval for a launch later this month, reports Science. The post After 19 years of construction, the world’s largest fusion reactor goes online this month appeared first on Digital Trends.

Local Motors, the world's most prominent maker of 3D-printed cars, announced this week that it plans to offer pre-sales of its series of 3D printed models starting in spring 2016. It estimates the... sticker price for the LM3D series, including the new Swim model seen above, to be around the $53,000 mark. See also: Audi just 3D printed a mini 1936 Grand Prix race car The dune-buggy-like 3D-printed cars will be manufactured in a "microfactory" currently under construction in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company anticipates the production facility to be completed by the end of 2015. There, cars will be constructed "using direct digital manufacturing (DDM), of which 3D-printing is a part," according to a company press release.

Adding pictures and photos to your iPhone contacts is a nice way to improve the iOS experience for phone calls and messaging, as it helps to quickly identify people in conversations and when reaching... out. Assigning pictures to contacts is quick and easy, and the trick is the same whether on iPhone, iPad, or iPod ...

Some PC tech support agents are reportedly advising users to avoid Microsoft's Windows 10. The tech reps either told customers not to upgrade, or recommended a downgrade if they already ran the latest... OS.

On a regular Android phone, swiping up from the home button gives you access to Google Now. On the BlackBerry Priv it can do much more than that. Swiping up will give you three options instead of one,... and two of them can be customized. Google Now is locked in place, you can't change that, but the left and right slots can be changed to almost anything you want. Here's what you need to know.

As many StarCraft 2 gamers know by now, Legacy of the Void will be the game's last expansion as far as the ongoing story is concerned. We know that some gamers are understandably bummed given how the... story of the StarCraft franchise has lasted over the course of two games and several expansions, but fret not because Blizzard still has plans for the game. The company has announced the StarCraft 2 Nova Covert Ops DLC. Basically this DLC will feature the Nova character, who for those unfamiliar was supposed to be the main character in Blizzard's StarCraft Ghost console game until they decided to can the project. Nova is also a playable character in Heroes of the Storm. That being said, so what is the Nova Covert Ops DLC about? Basically from what we can tell, these are a series of missions...

Over time, the storage on your LG V10 slowly shrinks. We add apps and take pictures and video, maybe add a few HD music files or pin things with YouTube Red. On top of all that, there are temporary... files getting downloaded and cached, as well as assorted junk we've downloaded from the Internet. There are plenty of ways to get rid of the junk and get some free space back, but LG has a special utility that's a one-stop shop named Smart Cleaning, and it's built into your new LG V10.

ProtonMail, the encrypted mail service used by whistleblowers, journalists and activists, became victim of multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks this week. The company even paid... ransom, but the IP slamming kept pounding.

How did our ancestors do it? The Persian Gulf is already one of the hottest parts of the world, but by the end of the century increasing heat combined with intense humidity will make the region too... hot for habitation, according to research published in Nature Climate Change....

The BlackBerry Priv has a pretty awesome hardware keyboard and its probably something you're going to use a lot. One neat trick is that you can just start typing and immediately search Google. We're... using Google as an example here, but the same steps can also be applied to the on board BlackBerry Device Search. Here's what you need to do.

The FCC has dismissed a petition filed by California nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, asking the commission to require "edge providers" to honor Do Not Track requests. The group named Google, Facebook,... YouTube, Pandora, Netflix and LinkedIn as examples...

Google has plans for chips it wants to develop with hardware partners to help standardise Android and bring a host of new features to its devices.

It’s hard to feel too sorry for anyone who can afford a $1.4 million Ferrari… but it is certainly possible to feel sorry for the car itself. A video posted by YouTube user Gábor... Grubits shows a man in Budapest crashing a $1.4 million LaFerrari just minutes after he bought it and drove it off the lot. FROM EARLIER: Leaks have prepared me to be disappointed by ‘Fallout 4’ The quality in the video isn’t very good — Grubits admits it was “recorded with potato” — but you can clearly see a red LaFerrari switching lanes and then trying to accelerate ahead of another car to execute a rapid turn… only to fail and crash into a parked car. Photographer Akos Moldvan, who snapped some

In honor of Friday's "Spectre" debut, the good nerds over at Burger Fiction created a supercut of every James Bond gadget that appeared on film. That's 23 movies, from "Dr. No" to "Skyfall."... We took it upon ourselves to rank the 90 most ridiculous inventions out of the 193 that the video documents, in order of increasing absurdity: Pager Earpiece 7.65 mm bullet with "delivery like a brick" Bug detectors Safe-cracking device Geiger counter Throwing stars Various teeny-tiny cameras Arm-implanted GPS microchip  Flare gun Credit card lock pick On-land jetpacks Speedboat with missiles and old-school GPS Hidden periscope Underwater camera Mini helicopter  Binocular glasses Gun with infrared attachment Fire-shooting gun Laser-shooting gun Gun disguised as a...

Swiss-based startup BestMile is collaborating with PostBus (or CarPostal) to introduce the world's first autonomous public transport system. The initial fleet of electric vehicles will debut in spring... 2016 in the city of Sion, Valais. The post The world’s first autonomous buses will debut in Switzerland in spring 2016 appeared first on Digital Trends.

Lab tests showed a chemical compound was able to clear cataracts in both rats and human eye lens tissue. The soluble chemical can be administered like common eye drops.

Fly Labs, a video and photo editing startup, has announced that it has been acquired by Google. Says the startup team, they will be joining Google -- in particular, Google Photos -- in the company's... Mountain View, California headquarters. Exactly what the team will be doing for Google isn't stated, though they did drop a couple hints, saying among other …

One look at the BlackBerry Priv (and its price) and you know it's a high-end device, so it makes sense that it has all of the leading specs as well. As we often do, we've lined up the BlackBerry... Priv's spec sheet against the other leading devices that are hoping to go toe-to-toe with it -- the Galaxy Note 5, Nexus 6P and Moto X Pure Edition.

According to recent reports, Bank of America is planning on implementing advice-giving robots based on algorithms. These algorithms will be implemented on a prototype level next year.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company will release an update to autopilot mode on its Model S, bringing a number of constraints to the new mode so that people can use autopilot mode at... dangerous times.

The hacking group Crackas With Attitude, which previously infiltrated the personal email of CIA Director John Brennan, says it has breached a law enforcement portal through which one can access tools... for law enforcement and arrest records, among other things. The breach is a serious one, and was accomplished via a vulnerability that hasn't been detailed. One of the breached …

Japanese electronics maker NEC has unveiled a unique input mechanism that allows you to type on your arm using augmented reality The system is called the ARmKeypad and it combines a set of glasses to... visualize the virtual keyboard and a smartwatch to detect how fast you type See also: Magic Leap delivers another peek at its augmented reality system Designed as a means to give workers a "hands-free" way of working while maintaining the ability to input text into a database, the company describes the ArmKeypad as better than other next-gen input methods such as voice interfaces, which are difficult to operate in noisy environments

Parents: They just don't get technology, right? It's probably one of the most common grievances among sons and daughters worldwide. From Mom asking you who this Reddit person is to Dad watching... Netflix in silence because he muted the sound on his computer, we've all had a moment (in some of our cases, hundreds) where we wanted to laugh, cry and scream at our parents' technological ineptitude.

Kids these days. While staying in a hotel with her family this girl named Layla encountered an ancient piece of technology she has never come into physical contact with before: a landline telephone... with a cord. Bewildered by the outdated device, Layla is baffled as her father asks her to simply hang up the phone. There's no touch screen, no red button. Poor Layla is lost. "How do you do that?" she asks her father. Thankfully, mom was there to rescue Layla from the useless piece of technology. Sweet dog helps this little boy with his bedtime routine Adorable kid answers the big question: Where does our poop go? This father-daughter Halloween costume belongs in a horror movie Cute baby enters howling competition with dogs

The Fibaro Flood Sensor is light on features, but its killer design and potential versatility make it one of the best on the market.