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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched rockets, spaceships and electric cars, and after his stint on CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" last night, he can add TV sitcom to his epic list of achievements.

The iPhone 6S, Amazon Fire TV, Macbook Pro and Apple Watch all feature in this year's Black Friday madness.

This week Samsung releases the consumer edition of the Gear VR, a virtual reality headset that works with Galaxy smartphones. At $99, the purchase should come as a fairly obvious consideration for most owners of the Sams...

Cars have a long history with augmented and virtual reality. Designers rely on immersive systems, from CAVE rooms to augmented reality headsets, to visualize their work. Drivers have been using heads-up displays for deca...

Startup Deepfield Robotics is working with German technology company Bosch in order to develop the ultimate farm hand -- a robot that can weed, check water levels, and monitor crop growth. The post Startup Deepfield Robo...

Revisiting PlayStation 2 games (at this point) might cost more than you expect. Sony and Electronic Arts have a Star Wars: Battlefront PlayStation 4 bundle available right now and with it comes a quartet of games from a ...

NASA engineers are continuing to work out the details for Orion , the spacecraft that will take actual humans to the next frontiers of space. Among many changes for the next mission in a few year's time is a new and very...

In early 2016, astronomers will be looking at a specific part of the sky, knowing with near certainty that a supernova will appear. How is it possible to predict such events? The answer has to do with an effect known as ...

A farmer in Switzerland has discovered a priceless cache of ancient Roman coins, the total of which exceeds 4,000 coins. The coins were located in a farmer's vegetable and fruit orchard in Ueken, and they collectively we...

Souschef is a multipurpose kitchen counter top device that assists you in cooking. The device can store upto 12 ingredients (fine to coarse) and dispense them automatically with high precision based on the recipes config...

In studying Triangulum II, a dwarf galaxy nearby the Milky Way, researchers from CalTech have come to realize that it has the largest concentration of dark matter ever known. It wasn't obvious at first, seeing as how dar...

Developers of pro apps have long complained that Apple’s App Store policies are a barrier to them creating iOS versions of popular Mac apps. The launch of the iPad Pro has brought the issue front and center, with a num...

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Look, there's already a taco emoji, so it doesn't seem far fetched to have one that represents a condom as well. After all, despite their obvious differences, they both have something in common: pleasure. That's why Dure...

It's pretty easy to find a random Chinese Android phone to slap your brand on these days. So easy, in fact, that Pepsi is having a go.

Secure messaging service Telegram announced on Wednesday it had shut down 78 ISIS-related channels since the deadly attacks on Paris and Beirut, alongside a statement saying the company was "disturbed to learn that Teleg...

"Weakening security with the aim of advancing security simply does not make sense"

Following upon its initial successes with lettuce back in August, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are attempting to coerce a colony of zinnias to flower for the first time. The effort is part of th...

Here’s a 5-minute video in which photographer Jon Legge shows how you can put together a tabletop studio for well-lit product photos. It’ll cost you just 10 to 15 minutes and about £25 (~$40) in materials. After mod...

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Internet cafes started as coffee shops where you could check email. But over the years, people turned them into dens for sharing pirated music, hotspots for video game addiction, and even temporary housing.

Way back in September, our very own Esther Inglis-Arkell found a recipe for condoms from 1844. It was only two paragraphs long, so we thought, how hard can it be? Really hard, it turns out. Also gross and potentially dan...