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The NSA insists that it respects American privacy, but documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post suggest that the agency has trouble maintaining that respect. A May 2012 audit, buried in the documents, 2,...

Death by car is random and sudden--which, unfortunately, means it tends to fall into the category of "accidental," and hence, unpreventable. But with traffic deaths set to outpace AIDS/HIV and malaria in the developing w...

$10,311,220. It isn't sufficient to greenlight Canonical's innovative hybrid smartphone, but it is just enough to beat the sum raised by the Pebble smartwatch and thereby steal the crowdfunding record. Well, sort of, at ...

Is this the "big moment" for face computers? Does pairing a $2,300 Gucci turtleneck or $1,200 Balenciaga boots with a $1,500 pair of gadget glasses make them haute? Will you look like a model--or will the model look like...

If you happened upon architect Javier Corvalán's house in rural Paraguay while its roof was down, you probably wouldn't give it a second thought--this tiny aluminum box looks more like a bunker than a home. But thanks t...

Almost like a real-life version of Santa's bag, Unikia's new Compleat Foodskin lunchbag can magically expand--thanks to the wonder that is silicone--to accommodate even a massive midday meal. And when you're done eating,...

We'll admit to being puzzled by Sony's recently uncovered QX10 and QX100 lens cameras -- how do they work? Thankfully, SonyAlphaRumors has answered some of our questions with a leaked user manual. Both cameras are mostly...

Did you have a few too many cookouts this summer, and maybe pack on a few too many pounds? Here's a refresher on some healthy booze to get you drunk while keeping you trim.

Inspired by the seemingly random clouds of data points recorded when a performer's wearing a 3D motion capture suit, J.P.Meulendijks' Mocap clock requires just the perfect angle to interpret the time.

School buses are so much fun. The springy seats, the awkward-to-open windows, the rumbling engine--it all hearkens back to a time in your life when you were younger, happier and worry-free. But did you ever imagine livin...

Happy Friday! It's been quite a week. I know because my desk is a mess, and Wagner eyeing the heap with OCDisdain. It's making me a little nervous, really. What's on your mind though? As always, it's that time of the wee...

Let's face it: even clever 2D printers aren't usually fun to watch. Mugi Yamamoto's Stack concept livens things up a bit, however. Instead of relying on a tray, the printer swallows paper from a column underneath -- like...

Spending your life at home and never getting out of bed is not only considered socially unacceptable, it can lead to serious medical conditions like bedsores. But thankfully one of those two concerns has been eradicated ...

Granted, it's not exactly a traditional ATM -- for one thing, you feed cash in. It's not exactly a vending machine either -- there are no candy bars here, just a transfer of funds to your account. Lamassu's Bitcoin Machi...

Today in our time capsule news round-up we have a mystery time capsule from 1927, some ideas for building your own back-to-school capsule, and former classmates in Connecticut who went looking for a time capsule but woun...

What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA's IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the ...

Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have our very own Mariella Moon. I used to call my first mobile ...

The Nikon D800 is arguably the best camera you can buy. Its 36-megapixel sensor re-opened the conversation about megapixels, and in terms of raw image quality, the D800 is second to none. Roberts Camera (via eBay) has th...

Putting personal information on Facebook is never a good idea. And if you don't believe us, at least take it from this social media-savvy gospel choir:

It's been more than a week since Amazon launched Amazon Art, a marketplace for fine art where online shoppers can one-click-buy directly from galleries. And while it's great to imagine disrupting one of the wackiest, mos...

Families are all about growing -- an honest case of "the more, the merrier," if you will. Now, according to our friends over at SweClockers, ASUS is getting ready to make its own Vivo family a little larger by introducin...

Remember that time Chubby Checker wanted to sue HP over a penis-measuring WebOS app that was also called "Chubby Checker"? There's more fun to come: ol' Chubs just got the go-ahead to sue the pants off HP.