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The Scaccomatto Collection of chess candles are a creation brought to you by the Queenstown, NZ-based Seletti Boutique. This is a fine lifestyle brand offering select home and interior products. The chess candles are lar...

LG is expanding the "Knock" feature to its entire ecosystem of smartphones and tablets, the company announced today. The feature lets users tap the screen twice as an alternative way …

There isn't one central BitTorrent search engine to release top searches queries of the year, but Kickass Torrents is pretty close. It's definitely a go-to for standard stuff. And the most searched terms in 2013 were all...

A new examination of the seemingly bottomless well of Snowden documents describes an internal NSA catalog of dead ringers for consumer hardware that the NSA can deploy on unsuspecting targets' …

Screens and curtains are alright, but sometimes you want a real wall. Solid, substantial and offering some privacy. And if bricks and cement blocks are too boring, you can always turn to repurposed household items. Right...

There is nothing quite like sipping on your favorite beverage first thing in the morning, with your favorite breakfast menu laid out before you. The thing about coffee and tea is this, you only have a certain window peri...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson this weekend indicated that the game will not be available on Wii U anytime soon. He cited a heavy workload on existing projects as the reason …

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Well folks, we've made it through two major holidays, with just one more to go...

Samsung this weekend teased an upcoming announcement about its Exynos processor ecosystem. The company will formally deliver the announcement on Jan. 7, 2014 at CES. Details are scant at best, …

A few days ago NPD released numbers that caused many media outlets to proclaim the amazing success of Chromebooks as a data point in the market. These numbers were bring used in blog posts to suggest that the rise of ...

90 million unique visitors a month has to be good for something. But so far Reddit hasn't been able to stay consistently profitable even with all those people (yeah, you) banging down the door.

Don't think that the NSA always has to wait until people are using technology to start snooping on it. Spiegel has obtained documents which claim that the agency's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group can intercept com...

The Russian hacker known to cyber security firms and hackers as "HASH" and alternately "Rev0lver" gained access to a BBC server sometime prior to or on Dec. 25, Hold Security …

The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because shit continues to get real.

Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills. In the week's leading up to the biggest gadget show on Earth, ...

ASUS has released the second of two (or more) teaser videos ahead of its CES 2014 product launch. This one hints at 4-, 5-, and 6-inch handset offerings. In keeping …

Gold is something that everyone looks out for and would not mind owning lots of in their lifetime, and for the Pharaohs of old, even in the afterlife. The thing about gold is, it is extremely rare and limited in quantity...

Some devices might be extremely small in nature, but they sure as heck are extremely useful to tote around, especially when you consider the kind of capabilities that they offer. For instance, a tiny USB flash drive whic...

Did you ever watch CSI's tech boffins zoom into a photo, grab the reflection in someone's eye, and through processing magic generate a full facial image of the wanted criminal? If, like us, you rolled your eyes at the pr...

Ever hit the road and realized that your smartphone or tablet does not have enough energy left in its battery reserves in order to last the distance? That can be quite a bummer, especially when you need to get that all i...

The Dual Boards from Dual Electronics offer a new way to go snowboarding. They're a pair of snowboards you can strap on to your feet separately. You can obviously ride sideways and do everything that is possible with the...

This Ultrasonic Aromatherapy Room Diffuser from Ultransmit is not just an aroma diffuser. It's also an ionizer and humidifier. It looks kind of like an illuminated bowling ball, an effect enhanced by the fact that it com...