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What do you do if you accidentally buy the wrong app or album? What if you decide you don't want that game after all? Here's how to get a refund in the Google Play Store for apps, movies, music, and in-app purchases. The...

This article was co-authored with Alex Tapscott. In this CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, Don and his son Alex chart a broad overview of blockchain in 2016, with an eye to what is to come in the year ahead. Notab...

After giving us a taster of what was to come with a prototype version last year, Sony's first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player is here. The UBP-X800 will do just what you'd expect from a 4K player: handle 4K Blu-ray discs and ...

Forecasting is always a tricky business, but over the past 10 years many of our 5 in 5 predictions have proven highly accurate in spotting and accelerating emerging technologies.

Misfit finally made a smartwatch: the Vapor. It's an early prototype, but we went hands on with it to see how it's shaping up. The fast processing, slick design, and intriguing software had us impressed. The post Misfit ...

Projectors are there many, but the Sony Short Throw 4K Projector is surely one of a kind. This is undoubtedly a compelling design for your living room. The metallic masterpiece will project a 100-inch image on the wall f...

2016 was an incredible year for technology, and for humanity. Despite all the negative political-related news, there were 10 tech trends this year that positively transformed humanity. For this "2017 Kick-Off" post, I re...

We checked out audio startup Nuheara's new IQbuds, the latest addition to the burgeoning 'hearables' segment, which can blast your tunes while also allowing you to control the sonic world around you. The post Nuheara’s...

Oakland-based venture capital firm Better Ventures recently closed its second fund at $21 million according to cofounder and managing director Wes Selke. The firm was originally founded as an accelerator called Hub Ventu...

The future of city driving--at least in theory--sounds amazing. We'll have digital assistants in our vehicles to book last-minute restaurant reservations, and we'll never have to touch a steering wheel again because our ...

Great post from Jeff Benjamin about the emerging 8K standard from VESA (They created the DisplayPort standard) and HDMI.One particular point of interest: One of the biggest takeaways is that HBR3 enables support of 4K at...

Spammer opts for penal colony Russia is reportedly letting convicted crackers take a seat in its offensive operations units, as an alternative to doing time....

The UK Ministry of Defence has officially awarded a £30m contract to produce a prototype laser weapon.

Google knows who I want to email before I email them. It knows what I want to type before I type it. It even knows where I want to drive to before I drive. So it was only a matter of time before Google figured out what I...

A Dallas mother was stunned when she discovered her daughter's purchase.

Three new Car and Driver-branded dashboard-mounted camera models all offer Full HD 1080p video at 30 frames per second, loop recording, time stamping, and support for SD memory cards up to 32GB. The post Car and Driver�...

Chipolo showed off the Sticker and the Clip, the company's two newest Bluetooth trackers at CES 2017, which it claims are the world's smallest and thinnest trackers. The two products join the existing Chipolo Plus ("The ...

By now, we've talked our heads off about the ILM recreations of 1977 Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in Rogue One. We've talked ethics, quality, and even the process. The last piece is to simply watch how it was done, an...

As you can probably guess from the company’s name, SmartyPans is building a smart frying pan — which it just demonstrated onstage at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield at CES. As explained to me by CTO Rahul Baxi (h...

Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended months ago, right? Maybe not. The GWX tool may be gone, but all the other upgrade tools still work, and the end result is an apparently valid digital license...

HTC announced a new wave of accessories headed to Vive owners later this year, but the one that stands above the crowd is the new Vive Tracker. HTC has built a small Vive controller with a data port on the bottom that th...

Razer’s impressive lineup of gaming laptops are some of the finest you can get your greasy mitts on, but none of them compare to the insane prototype the company teased at CES 2017 in Las Vegas today. Dubbed Project Va...