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With consumers moving toward smart devices, Neato Robotics has launched a robot vacuum that can be connected to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa. With the Neato vacuum, cleaning your home is as simple as saying, "Alexa, ...

Handy, the on-demand service for cleaners, handymen, and more, has today announced the Give > Get promotion for Black Friday. This Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, customers pay the same amount as they’d usually pay...

The slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface temperature between 1998 and 2013 wasn't a slowdown at all. The oceans have warmed instead. The post ‘Global Warming Hiatus’ Not Good News For Planet Earth appeared...

Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).

The foil-clad portions of turkey, mashed potatoes and cherry/blueberry cobbler aboard the International Space Station might not look much like a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but they hearken back to the Earthbound feas...

In the never-ending quest to squeeze more power out of less space in our smartphones, researchers in Finland have developed a revolutionary antenna technology that could boost your signal and extend your battery life, an...

Say what you like about Samsung's recent fortunes, there's no shortage of top choices when it comes to choosing an excellent 4K HDR TV - that's ultra-high definition and high dynamic range, to hit the two televisual must...

Germany's highest court has rejected a case brought by Yahoo against a law designed to compensate news publishers for the use of their content

Aspartame--the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke--is not good for you. If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion. A new study published by a team of investigators at Massachuse...

All right, don’t panic, but computers have created their own secret language and are probably talking about us right now. Well, that’s kind of an oversimplification, and the last part is just plain untrue. But there ...

NASA challenged engineers to pack an entire satellite dish into a cereal box with Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube), a technology-demonstration mission scheduled for launch in 2018 that will measure rain and snowfall on Eart...

There's a new guy in the galactic neighborhood -- a small, ultra-faint satellite galaxy has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way. Its discovery will help scientists better understand dark matter, a mysterious substance...

Twitter got carried away with its latest push on account suspensions, shuttering @jack briefly before reinstating the account with some curiously messed up follower counts.

Dictation on the Mac is fantastic, and if you have chosen to use Enhanced Dictation then you’ve downloaded a 1.2GB voice recognition pack to your Mac locally so that it can improve the overall functionality of the feat...

As our planet's technology continues to evolve, scientists like Stephen Hawking become more aware of the possibility that aliens might lurk in the darkness studying our behavior from afar. In this radio interview, the SE...

Titanfall 2's first DLC pack brings back a classic map from the original 2014 game, and it also adds cosmetic items for sale via microtransactions. The map, Angel City, is available first to those who pre-ordered the gam...

The iFit-1 from Satechi is a sliding stand for your phone that also contains a high-fidelity speaker, so you can browse the internet, play games, or watch movies with louder, richer sound. It also features a generous 6 h...

Check out the amazing fungi timelapse sequence from Planet Earth II's third episode, 'Jungles'

I love meteorites. I have quite a few myself; while I've never found one on a hunt I've bought them from collectors. There's a wealth of science in them; many are as old or even older than Earth, having formed in the ear...

Meet the Densters, a set of playful and functional toy monsters, which connect and allow kids to build the most amazing dens and forts at home! There are six unique characters in the Densters family. Each of them is a un...

Developer Red Barrels has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking funds for a special adult diaper to wear when playing the two Outlast survival horror games. It was inspired by emails from players who ended up with dirt...

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. Launch is targeted for April 2021 on a Sp...