Gadget News

With all of the focus on the imminent unveiling of a certain next-generation Nexus smartphone, another of Google's bestselling products could soon be set for a wider launch of its own. The company has begun lifting restr...

Though the event continues to be called “Editor’s Day”, this week we had an extended stay with NVIDIA in Montreal, learning about the company’s newest in gaming development and hardware innovation. The biggest ne...

When Microsoft said that it would release its Remote Desktop app for Android and iOS, it left many scratching their heads -- what, no Windows Phone version? There's no need to worry, though, as the company has just promi...

The second iPad mini will include a Retina upgrade and the iPad 5 will not have TouchID as was previously rumored, according to KGI Securities analyst Mingchi Kuo. These and a bevy of other predictions were released toda...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Rockets. Just the word sounds exciting. Rock-et. SpaceX's vertical-take-off-and-landing Grasshopper is how many of us here ...

In their ongoing teardown of Play Store 4.4, Android Police have found multiple mentions of a “Play Newsstand” that could turn out to be a one-price news subscription service similar in structure to Play Music All Ac...

Hey remember Twitter Music ? Hadn't thought about it in a while? Well apparently that's a common problem, and according to a report by AllThingsD, Twitter is very seriously considering putting the service out of its mise...

Some of the technical details behind Google’s Project Loon were revealed in a recent video explaining the inner workings of one of its global Internet antenna balloons. Network engineering lead Cyrus Behroozi popped of...

You've probably developed a pretty serious relationship with your computer, we all do. And whether you're one to name inanimate objects or not, your computer needs one to identify itself on networks. A perfect excuse!

It's one thing to build the most useless machine , but artist Thijs Rijkers takes things one big step further; his machines actively destroy themselves.

The new Windows Remote Desktop application for mobile devices, which was launched last week for iOS and Android devices, will soon be available for Windows Phone, reports The Next Web. The report comes in response to a q...

If you're one of the few people who own a Windows RT tablet (don't all raise your hands at once, now), you just got a chunk of your Saturday back. Citing a "situation affecting a limited number of users updating their Wi...

Who'd have thought one of the awesomest things we'd see this week would be a zipper. But that's not all! Join us for a tour of the cave beneath Central Park, at look at Windows 8.1, an explanation of the iPhone 5s accele...

Americans tend to talk a lot about the Space Race and how we made it to the Moon and we were first and no one else was second because we are the best. It's put into context by the fact that the Soviet satellite Sputnik w...

When Google first announced Project Loon, its plan to cover the world in a blanket of Wi-Fi using internet balloons , it was sort of hard to believe. It still is, but now Google's taking us inside the antenna.

Sono, a noise-cancelling device that attaches to your window, has been shortlisted as a top-20 finalist for the 2013 James Dyson Awards. Similar in concept to noise-cancelling headphones, the device detects ambient sound...

Google has done an admirable job of demystifying Project Loon (that ambitious broadband-via-atmospheric-balloon initiative), but its latest video takes it a step further: tearing apart one of its blimp-tracking antennas ...

In an effort to expand the understanding the public has of the developer program NVIDIA has in GameWorks, this week they’ve taken the stage with showings of a couple of new (or otherwise newly branded) technologies cal...

Some devices left unbootable after installing the update.     

The iPhone 5s beat out the LG G2 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 in Which? magazine’s latest independent speed test of top-performing smartphones. Using a phone simulation program called Geekbench, the test found that the iP...

I enjoy beer and cider so much, I decided to start rolling my own.     

The frequencies employed by law enforcement and first responders can be a source of vital information in emergency situations but you can't tune in using any old radio. But rather than spend big bucks on a conventional p...