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If you'd rather keep your weird Twitter habits close to the vest, you'll be happy to know that the social media giant keeps you in the loop. The post How to Check Which Apps Access Your Tweets--And Stop Them appeared fir...

BioWare has confirmed what we already knew: the next instalment in the Mass Effect franchise has been pushed back to next year. Publisher EA teased the bad news during an investor's call in March, when CFO Blake Jorgense...

A 15-year-old Canadian teenager has seemingly discovered a long-lost Mayan city after noticing previously-undiscovered correlations between maps of star constellations and the locations of the largest (known) Mayan citie...

For all the benefits that the Global Positioning System provides to landlubbers and surface ships, GPS signals can't penetrate seawater and therefore can't be used by oceangoing vehicles like submarines or UUVs. That's w...

I'm usually content to stick with the sports band that came with my Apple Watch, but you should keep something a little nicer in the bullpen for formal occasions, and this $17 stainless steel strap is a big step up in th...

Now that Civil War is out of the way, Marvel's assortment of stars and the Russo brothers can now focus on their next big task at hand: spending the next few years talking about Infinity War. Here's a sneak peak of what'...

Properly lighting a tiny subject when doing macro photography is tricky since your camera ends up so close to it. A ring light surrounding the lens is one solution to the problem, and it looks like Canon might soon be re...

Nissan's grand designs for zero-emission cities of the future may be some way off, but you gotta start somewhere. And that somewhere starts with "xStorage," the automaker's home energy hoarding system announced today. Li...

Huawei does not only make smartphones, you know, as they also have jumped aboard the wearable tech category in recent times with the advent of the smartwatch. This time around, the company from China has decided to furth...

After two movies of young Charles Xavier having a full head of luscious locks, James McAvoy has finally gone full Professor X in X-Men: Apocalypse. The actor shaved his head for the transformation, and thankfully, direct...

Ah, there is nothing quite like being able to get your nails done, and sometimes, when we do not have the luxury of time to get it done ourselves, we subject our purses to a battering in order for other seasoned folks to...

Is it the fuel? Not really. Even though giant passenger jets do guzzle down fuel at a ridiculous 0.67 miles per gallon--seriously, they need 1.5 gallons of jet fuel for every mile traveled--there are so many people on an...

Earlier today, reports surfaced about an email sent to House of Representatives staffers about ransomware. Gizmodo has obtained the email in full.

Wildfires continue to ravage the Canadian province of Alberta, and experts say they could double in size and take months to extinguish . Here are the latest space-based images of this unprecedented natural disaster.

Tony Stark, leader of the Marvel's technological revolution and freaking Iron Man, uses a Vivo V3--a mid-range phone available exclusively in China. According to Geek, he uses it because Chinese audiences love Marvel mov...

If you think the Kepler space telescope has already spotted a lot of exoplanets, you haven't seen the half of it... almost literally. After a lot of hype, NASA's Kepler team has verified the existence of 1,284 new planet...

What a day it has been. Time to go into an elective waking coma while this guy makes a crazy-looking knife with skill and precision.

If we've learned anything from this election cycle it's that American politics gets the messiest when it's online. And the Clinton campaign has decided that it wants to fight fire with fire when it comes to online trolls...

The struggles of PC maker HP have been well documented, and the continued decline of the company's main business isn't helping. Even with new products like the super thin Spectre 13.3, a 3D-scanning Sprout PC and a cryst...

Microsoft claims it wants to take PC gaming seriously with Windows 10, but the limitations of Windows 10-based games has undercut their message. They're trying to address some of that today, with unlocked frame rates and...

The strongest El Niño ever seen is finally gone. But before it left it had plenty to throw at us: Storms , droughts , blackouts , thousands of pounds of dead fish . And we finally know just what it was that made El Niñ...

Scientists have long postulated that the early Earth's atmosphere must have had considerably higher pressure than it does today, since the sunlight was fainter. However, researchers have made a discovery which suggests t...