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Toying with the idea of taking BMW's first all electric vehicle on a road trip? You might want to look into its extended range options. For an additional $3,950 on top of the BMW i3's $41,350 base price, buyers can augme...

Amazon has long made a big deal of selling bite-sized books, and there's new signs that it may extend that love of short-form content to video. AdAge claims that Amazon has been pitching YouTube channel producers on brin...

Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and charged with the murders of 17 people whose bodies he dismembered and kept in freezers in his one-bedroom Milwaukee apartment. From the outside he seemed like just a regular guy. T...

News that the Google TV platform will get an update to Android Jelly Bean came at the I/O event back in May, but there's been little in the way of information since then. GTV Hacker team member CJ Heres points out a zip ...

Sunny summer days have all but disappeared to make way for the crisper autumn afternoons here in the northern hemisphere; give it another six or seven months, however, and we'll all spending lovely lazy afternoons in bik...

Despite being one of the greatest musicians of all time, David Byrne is a really awful futurist.

The government shutdown is killing dozens of beloved science programs? Whatever. Now it's causing a massive outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella? Who cares? Wait, what's that? It's standing between you and the del...

The Unity game engine likes to take things in small steps. First it was adding Linux and Wii U support. Then Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10. Now that most of the major operating systems are covered, it's ti...

You know what they say about people who live in glass houses--but what about plastic bubbles? For the next ten days, a British artist named Alex Schweder is occupying this teensy inflatable home--that attaches to a van v...

I recently invested in an AM/FM clock radio, and I will never look back. Why? Because radio in the morning is the best way to wake up.

Fox may have been making an empty threat when it said it would go the paid TV route, if Aereo continued to stream its content online. But, that doesn't mean the broadcasters were just going to stomp their feet and let th...

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Our weekly round-up of time capsule news includes a McDonald's capsule from 1970 that hasn't aged well, a Vietnam War-era capsule in Virginia Beach that "smells like rotten eggs," and more church time capsules than you c...

Qualcomm is developing a new line of Zeroth processors designed to help devices think and sense just like human brains and bodies.

That iPhone 5C you've got outfitted with a swiss cheese-esque Apple case might've looked pretty fresh at first, but it's been a few weeks and you're starting to wish those holes had something a bit more exciting to look ...

We all know that engines have been steadily improving for years. I mean, they better, right? What with all the researchers poking at them in their development cages and whatnot. But it's easy to forget just how much bett...

Starting October 25th, new AT&T customers have an option between shared data plans and...shared data plans. Existing users will be able to keep whatever plan they currently have; AT&T won't shunt you off. But anybody who...

Norway's got a major corpse problem that isn't going away anytime soon. Literally--they won't rot. What's the culprit behind this profusion of bodies that refuse to take their place in the circle of life? The same thing ...

Each week, our friends at gdgt go through the latest gadgets and score them to help you decide which ones to buy. Here are some of their most recent picks. Want more? Visit gdgt anytime to catch up on the latest, and sub...

When we first saw Valve's thumbstick-free controller specially made for use with Steam, we had some questions about how it would really work in action. Now, we at least know what it looks like.

You're alone in a room, or perhaps with a small group of friends, looking for a way out, searching all the walls and surfaces around you--even the furniture and objects--for clues. There is no apparent way out. There are...

That Nokia tablet we've been hearing so much about? Just a couple weeks before its likely appearance in Abu Dhabi at Nokia World, we're now starting to see what it actually looks like outside of blurrycam leaks and tiny ...