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Take your phone with you wherever and however you work out. If you're a fitness freak who loves to have their music with them as they work out, or simply looking to take up jogging as the summer warms up, an armband case...

James Blake's baritone sounds like a voice caught in a throat. It falters, it skips, it chokes. This pained, broken thing is the starting point of all of Blake's music. From this voice emerges an even greater depth of so...

In an 1,800-word manifesto issued on the Panama Paper's website, the source explained the motivation behind the leak, and also alluded to cooperation with law enforcement to bring those guilty to justice. The post The Pa...

(Note: Awesome images are being added as they come in!) It's not every day you get to see a planet pass in front of the Sun. But today, skywatchers worldwide got to see just that, as diminutive Mercury passed in front of...

In a first for the 91-year-old magazine, The New Yorker is looking at Manhattan through the screen of your tablet or smartphone, thanks to augmented reality.

Users to choose own codecs The Linux Mint project has decided version 18, scheduled for June 2016, will end out-of-the-box installation of multimedia codecs....

Take a walk on the hot planet NASA, the US Geological Survey and various university faculties have released a dream package for the imaginary hiker and geodata geek: a topological model of Mercury....

Home theater projector prices have really come down in recent years, but the best of the bunch are still pretty expensive. For example, if you see a projector that does 3D 1080p HD and is so good that it's rated for gami...

Facebook and Oculus head engineer Mary Lou Jepsen will be leaving for start-up Open Water to develop a wearable MRI. The aim is to reduce size and price to make MRIs more accessible to help people. Next step is work brai...

 A month before Disrupt, Yu Zhou sent us an email titled, “We want to help solve the Flint water problem.” WaterO’s CEO wasn’t claiming to have the catchall solution to the lead problem plaguing the Michigan cit...

The most powerful particle accelerator in the world, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is getting up to speed again after its annual winter break. After a switch-on in March and a period of fine-tuning, operators are r...

Opera today announced the launch of a brand new privacy-focused app, called Opera VPN, which allows users to block ads and even change their virtual location to circumvent restricted internet access (via TechCrunch) In a...

Judge flicks ad-network's attempt to dismiss Facebook has lost the first round of a US class action lawsuit, with a judge ruling it can proceed to trial....

 Some exciting news from the John McAfee camp today: America’s favorite (and most entertaining) cybersecurity expert has a new gig! MGT Capital Investments, a publicly traded company that owns and operates social gami...

Technicians from the SWIFT global financial network connecting it to Bangladesh's central bank made it easier for hackers to attack the bank, Bangladeshi police and a bank official have told Reuters. The technicians work...

PayPal won't be so crowdfunding-friendly in the future. The payment giant is dropping Purchase Protection for crowdfunding projects as of a user agreement change coming June 25th. From then on, you back efforts at your o...

In the next 20 years, between 50 percent to 100 percent of the world's energy production could come from solar. Today, the global oil and natural gas industry is about a $4 trillion business. It's big money, and in the U...

Researchers recently demonstrated how an informatics-based adaptive design strategy, tightly coupled to experiments, can accelerate the discovery of new materials with targeted properties, according to a recent paper pub...

Google is considering a big visual shake-up for its search results that renders links in black instead of blue. Google has been testing black search result links internationally since Friday or Saturday, according to The...

 A panel discussion on finding a balance between security and privacy here at Disrupt New York 2016 touched on various aspects of a complex topic, including strategies for securing customer data and the big risks posed ...

Twitter has barred US intelligence agencies from using Dataminr, a service that analyzes tweets from across the globe to inform users about news events, according to the Wall Street Journal. The social network has not co...

The team behind Microsoft's Surface range of devices will be happy with the results of the latest J.D. Power survey on customer satisfaction. Not only does it show that the consumers' satisfaction rating for hybrid devic...