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Homebrew software designed to imitate the Nintendo eShop has been issued a takedown notice by the house of Mario. FreeShop allows 3DS owners to browse, search and download games using "titlekeys," a form of encryption em...

Xiaomi offers the least expensive full Android TV experience, and it comes with compromises. The Android TV marketplace is ... sparse. Though there are plenty of happy customers out there using the old Nexus Player or th...

The answer to the question that you're wondering is yes, the Sigma 85mm f1.4 Art lens is indeed much better than the previous version of the lens. At higher megapixels, you start to see the flaws of the older version, bu...

Facebook and YouTube jumped on the 360 video train back in 2015, leaving Twitter to tardily trundle out their first all-direction footage experiments during the NBA finals back in June. But at long last, the social netwo...

Mysterious, thin, wispy clouds hide under the hazy upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Interestingly, the elusive clouds are not visible in all images captured by the cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraf...

Tesla's autopilot system warns of a potential collision due to an unseen braking vehicle one car ahead and puts on the emergency brake in response

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a set of recommendations for securing medical devices that could jeopardize the safety and privacy of their users. The report, titled “Postmarket Management of Cybe...

Many people would say that computers have been a boon to both science and society, facilitating calculations and communications unfathomable in the pre-digital age. President-elect Donald Trump, however, is not one of th...

Google isn't the only company trying to figure out eye-tracking for virtual reality -- Oculus VR is on the case too. The Facebook-backed VR company has confirmed that it recently acquired Danish startup The Eye Tribe, a ...

Apple has long been rumored to bring a set of hardcore components to the iPhone lineup – next year they just might do it. A set of patents this week shows how Apple is preparing for – or at least protecting itself in...

Samsung Display has again been rumored as the exclusive supplier of OLED panels for the 2017 iPhone, according to new claims made by sources in the Taiwan supply chain (via DigiTimes). Back in April, The Korea Herald rep...

Last September, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a fairly ambition plan to bring free WiFi to 400 railway stations across India, a goal that would cover 10 million passengers a day, by the company’s count, making a s...

There are so many companies working on autonomous car tech that we're now seeing the inevitable next phase: partnerships and consolidation. Case in point is a tie-up between MobilEye, the sensor maker that supplied senso...

On Christmas Eve morning, the electricity went off at our house and panic quickly spread among our younger guests. First, the TV sets went dark. Then, the desktop computers began to die as UPS back up batteries failed. F...

On the eve of CES, where virtual reality is set to dominate, the loudest chatter around VR seems to be focused on the dawn of tetherless, high-end VR headsets.  The basic idea: to bring the kind of mobility you enjoy wi...

We have a deal for you today on Disk Drill PRO 3, a data recovery utility for the Mac. According to the company, you can “scan and recover data from virtually any storage device with just the click of a button.” Our ...

For over two decades we've fought over open source licensing, but not much has changed.

Upgrade your workspace with the Leather Desk Pad by Wood & Faulk. Rich in understated beauty and class, these desktop accessories are the perfect blend of form and function. Of course, leather in any arena screams decade...

Apple Watch owners may have already received a notification for the Ring in the New Year Challenge. What can users get if they are able to achieve the goals put forward by the activity?

(World Scientific) New monolithic nitrogen-containing microporous cellular activated carbon was successfully prepared from phenol-urea-formaldehyde (PUF) organic foam for CO2 and H2 adsorption. The macroporosity correspo...

According to consumer research company Nielsen, Facebook and Google dominated the list of top 10 apps in the United States for 2016. The report also revealed the top operating systems for smartphones in the country for t...

A dedicated gaming mode for Windows 10 has been dug up from a leaked developer build of the operating system. If it works as described, the game mode will dedicate CPU and GPU resources toward games running on the system...