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Charge up your smartphone without lugging around a battery with the STROMR Power Exchange Cable. Instead of a power supply, this nifty cable draws power from the battery of other devices such as another smartphone or tab...

RedZone lets you scope out any crimes in a given area in order for you to avoid those areas and, potentially, remain safe. The app is currently available as a free download for iOS, with an Android version in the works. ...

What happens when Daniel Kottke offers Steve Jobs a hit of acid at a Dead show? An excerpt from the new book Heads, by Jesse Jarnow. The post How an Army of Deadheads (And Their LSD) Invented Silicon Valley appeared firs...

As it turns out, employees within social media giant Facebook have been toying with the notion of preventing a Trump presidency, or at the very least, toying with asking CEO Mark Zuckerberg if such a course of action is ...

Want. Want really badly actually. Magnum Contact Sheets is one of the most lauded, loved, and recommended photography books a photo lover can buy, and now signed copies are available in the Magnum Store. The book is a se...

Google Play Games finally reached version 3.7, flipping the switch for automatic sign-in and Gamer IDs. Google has yet to push the update to devices, but the APK is ready for download.

Apple says authorities have "utterly failed" to show they need the company's help to get data from a locked iPhone in a federal drug case

Apple engineers jumped on a conference call with press outlets shortly following Friday's New York court filing to tout the company's encryption efforts, while at the same time making clear that those protocols are in pl...

It looks like Verizon may be moving away from its FiOS brand, and replacing it with an all-new cable and internet service, according to a new report from Variety. Sources have said the service will be based on a model th...

Google Drive just made customized backups of hard drive data way easier. The recent update allows users to clear SSD or HDD space by tapping into Google Drive's cloud storage potential.

The UC Davis pepper spray incident was national news. Memes were generated from the resulting photos, which spread across the Web like wildfire in the wake of the events of that November day in 2011. But according to new...

Our extensive comparison of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality systems continues with a closer look at physical comfort, virtual comfort, and the user experience.

Can a $75 single board computer replace your desktop? We loaded an ODROID XU4, a mini-PC with a quad-core processor, with Ubuntu and a Windows emulator to find out. The post The ODROID XU4 is a palm-sized PC with an octo...

Today on In Case You Missed It: Royal London Hospital and VR company Medical Realities made the first VR surgical training video while performing an operation on a real person. Meanwhile the pain of getting hit by a dron...

The majority of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives had voted in favor of legalizing medical marijuana for disorders such as autism and epilepsy. The growing, dispensing, selling and use of medical marijuana will b...

Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that...

While the ethical debate rages on about genetically modified human embryos, the United States Department of Agriculture has cleared its first CRISPR-modified organism. CRISPR, in case you've forgotten, is an editing tech...

(European Association for the Study of the Liver) New data presented today at The International Liver Congress™ 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, demonstrates that the drug sitagliptin - more commonly used to treat diabetes - ...

Medium, a blogging platform founded by a former Twitter CEO, has been blocked in China. Reports allege that the country's latest Web crackdown comes in the wake of the Panama Papers leak that implicated several Chinese o...

While smartphone apps are cool and add convenience to our lives, the real impact of digital technology lies in front of us, when second order technologies are applied to completely new problems.

Microsoft launched a new emulator portal that allows users to try out Windows 10 before they decide to upgrade. Users will be able to navigate and see how they can get things done in Windows 10 using the tool.

Tim Peake: I always try & catch this stunning view of Cuba, Florida and the Bahamas when we pass the Yucatan Basin. Larger image...