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FOR years, the motor industry lived by the mantra, "bigger is better". The number of litres that a car's pistons displaced within its engine's cylinders was a matter of pride for its owner. This was because displacement ...

Who knew that an often ignorant cartoon 6-year-old could have so much in common with a United States presidential candidate? On Dec. 7, Redditor eucalyptusfire uploaded a Calvin and Hobbes strip, replacing Calvin's head ...

Researchers in Scotland have developed a camera that is able to use laser tracking to see around corners. The technology basically bounces lasers off the walls and objects in a room, calculating the the size and shape of...

The "Mona Lisa" may be hiding the real Lisa Gherardini beneath its surface, one scientist claims, but other experts in the field are skeptical.

A couple of days ago, Apple surprised everyone when they launched the Smart Battery Case. There have been plenty of battery cases designed for the iPhone over the years, but this marked the first time that Apple has deci...

5 million queries a second. That's the scope of a DDoS attack launched on the root DNS servers that make the Internet possible. Fortunately, the attack didn't work. The post Suspected botnet tried to break the Internet b...

UK researchers developed oxygen-enhanced MRI to determine oxygen deprivation sites in tumors. Better imaging is estimated to help lead to more planned and effective cancer treatments such as radiotherapy.

Twitter Inc said it was testing a feature to show advertisements to people who read tweets without logging in, as it tries to make good on its long-time ambition to monetize non-active users. The company said the feature...

The social network makes Offline Mode a reality with apps' ability to make Facebook comments and see cached content at all times. This is part of the plan. Part of the plan Facebook has to get as much Facebook delivered ...

The company said it would start accepting Walmart Pay, which will be integrated into its existing smartphone app, this month at stores in its home market around Bentonville, Ark.

Listen up, young children and Jason Derulo, and heed these warnings about riding hoverboards before you give yourself a concussion. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) — an industry regulator and ...

China’s cyber chief rejected criticism of the country’s Internet censorship Wednesday. The comments by Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, came ahead of next week’s state-sponsored World Interne...

Things have gotten sparse on the International Space Station due to recent failed cargo launches. A couple days ago, Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft launched with a payload destined for the ISS and, thankfully, did so wi...

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 24, Page 2302-2303, December 2015.

During a photoshoot for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" issue, Donald Trump reached for a bottle of aspirin when a 27-year-old bald eagle named Uncle Sam nearly attacked the presidential hopeful. Watch the very patr...

Judging from advertising and movies, being a dude is pretty simple: Have lots of sex, money and power. But is that limited conception of masculinity doing anyone any favors? Not so much.  A video published on Thursday ...

Back in 1909, a super-rich French banker named Albert Kahn decided to create a photographic record of the world using the new color photography process that had just appeared, the Autochrome Lumière. He commissioned 4 p...

It's been more than a month since tvOS and the tvOS App Store launched alongside the new fourth-generation Apple TV, marking a good time to take a look at the state of the tvOS App Store. AppFigures today published some ...

While most Mac laptop users will rely on the battery percentage indicator found in the menu bar of OS X, those who spend a lot of time at the command line may find it useful to know that MacBook battery life and battery ...

BY NOAH WILLIAMS - Beyond helping middle class families, under the Rubio plan well more than 90% of all households would see a tax cut.

The company has unveiled its new Architecture Skyline Collection, featuring New York City, Berlin, and Venice. The post Lego’s Fantastic New Kits Let You Recreate Skylines Like NYC’s appeared first on WIRED.

For those of you late to the party, the Orbis Ring Flash Adpater is a passive, add-on light shaping device that turns your speedlight into a ring flash. There are others, but for a slew of reasons the Orbis has long been...