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The Gasper Ceramic Bio-Fireplace created by Italian design company Acquaefuoco is a lovely and portable mini-fireplace. The transparent and curvy look makes it look like a candle in a holder, but with a lot more flame an...

Looks like a new chapter's just been added to the recent bit of Google strangeness that's been going on. Except instead of coming to us by sea, this particular mystery seems to want to take on both land and air in a Jets...

Did you move to the Kansas City area too late to register for Google Fiber? Don't fret -- Google has both reopened sign-ups in the region's 180 current fiber neighborhoods and detailed an upcoming expansion. Those in exi...

NASA has published an incredible photo that shows a "far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth." What's amazing about this is that you...

Samsung's other behemoth of a smartphone, the Galaxy Mega, is most definitely not one of the newest on the block. Still, we can't imagine why MetroPCS users would complain about having yet another Android device to choos...

Just when you think you have the rug pulled from under you, Microsoft seems to want to put it back again just as suddenly. That's what's appearing to happen this week when not one day after the music player app Winamp wa...

A few weeks back, Mojang and Twitch announced plans to bring world-building livestream abilities to Minecraft. Now, that feature is live. Once players link their respective Mojang and Twitch accounts the fun can begin th...

De Rotterdam, a massive tower designed by Rotterdam darling Rem Koolhaas, has opened. It is the city's largest building--a little bit of Manhattan, in Rotterdam. It's also, in an odd way, a tribute to the original World ...

Pinterest doesn't want to just be the place you hoard random internet goodies, or aspirational items for hobby boards -- it wants to become a real social tool. And it's doing that today with Place Pins: private or collab...

A federal jury ordered that Samsung must pay Apple $290 million for copying iPhone features. This is far less than the original ruling by a judge for $1.05 billion but probably won't be the final figure as Samsung is exp...

A new verdict has been reached in the Apple vs Samsung case, a verdict which has awarded the former with $290 million in damages vs the latter. This is the latest in the ongoing battle between Apple and Samsung over pate...

Top deal is on Parrot Zik Bluetooth headphones for your listening pleasure.     

While the FAA has cleared the use of electronics on US passenger airplanes at all stages of flight, there's still one major restriction in place: you have to shut off all cellular access. That rule may not exist for much...

Humans have a knack for making visual associations, but computers don't have it so easy; we often have to tell them what they see. Carnegie Mellon's recently launched Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) supercomputer bucks...

Things aren't looking so good for Ross Ulbricht, the alleged Silk Road mastermind . Federal prosecutors in New York just filed paperwork accusing the 29-year-old of ordering six murders for the lofty price of $730,000. U...

Following loads upon loads of evidence that the ban on smartphone usage during flights is absolutely ridiculous, the government will finally formally take up the matter. According to the WSJ, the FCC is now formally cons...

Amazon's Subscribe & Save service is perfect for eliminating a few shopping trips every month, and it will generally save you money over brick and mortar prices . If you haven't tried it out yet, Amazon is offering Prime...

A few months ago, we told you the story of Oliver Hotham , a British journalist whose reporting on Straight Pride UK was silenced by a spurious DMCA takedown request from the hate group. Now the Hotham's web host, WordPr...

Belkin’s WeMo Insight power-tracking wireless power socket has finally launched, offering internet-of-things and home automation fans a way not only to remotely control appliances, but see how much electricity they’r...

Fears over "designer babies" were common long before we understood the science of genetics well enough to actually produce them. For many, the idea of predetermining a child's eye color or trying to influence their intel...

The gamestravaganza continues! Last week's PS4 talk turns to Xbox One o'clock. And this time we've actually got our resident gaming guru Ben Gilbert on-hand to tell you precisely how many gaming consoles you'll be buying...

Gone are the days of buttons, switches and dials. We're all touchscreen and trackpad now. If you're among those that miss the tactile sensation and precision that switches and toggles offer and have $100 or so burning a ...