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A new tool to allow Snapchat users to check whether their username and cellphone number have been compromised in the recent database hack has been launched, with an estimated 4.6m …

Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth's circumference, which was also r...

Motorola is starting off the new year right. Yesterday we got word that the Moto G is coming to Verizon as a $100 prepaid device, and today Boost Mobile announced that it's also going to be selling the budget-friendly sm...

The Power Button Silver Ring from Smiling-SilverSmith is a power button in more ways than one. Handmade from pure sterling silver, this beautiful ring is shaped like a computer power button. Like the ring from the Lord o...

The Acrylic Wine Rack from Gus Modern is a simple yet highly efficient and visually appealing wine rack1. The rack is made from one-inch thick acrylic with openings for up to eight wine bottles. You mount the back panel ...

Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. Splooge, fold, press. The machines making Pop-Tarts are so mesmerizing. You just can't take your eyes off the black magic that is creating addictive processed food. My brain in...

"All Together Now" is Chris Ware's latest cover for The New Yorker and it offers, yet again , a pretty pitch-perfect perspective on our collective obsession with handheld tech; four years on, and we're still seeing the w...

You may be familiar with the Pandora of porn , but did you know that there's also a Netflix of porn? Probably! Assuming you're the proud owner of a Playstation 4, that is. Because according to online porn rental service ...

The Marvel Superhero Family Car Decals are brought to you courtesy of a partnership between ThinkGeek and Marvel. It's meant for a family of super heroes aka super-nerds. Ordinary car decals showing birds and trees or su...

Polaroid's been struggling with a bit of an identity crisis since the halcyon days of instant photography. Did you know, for example, that the company's been putting its name on TVs? Polaroid's celebrating CES with the r...

Microsoft has quietly upgraded the Surface Pro 2, with new hardware including faster processors being sent out to those who returned their Windows 8 tablets after the December firmware update …

Looking at this video, it seems like scientists at the University of Tokyo have mastered the Force and they're now able to make things levitate and move in space. But magic this is not, young Skywalker--it's the first ti...

To celebrate the New Year, Dubai decided to break the Guinness World Record for world's largest fireworks show. Because of course the world's largest fireworks show would be in Dubai. They put the best show on every year...

Sometimes, it pays to avoid the bleeding edge of technology. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that newer Surface Pro 2 tablets are shipping with a faster 1.9GHz Core i5 inside instead of the 1.6GHz chip that came wit...

You will not be surprised to learn that the NSA is spending nearly $80 million trying to build "a cryptologically useful quantum computer." The Washington Post just published details of the program, codenamed "Penetratin...

Users of the crypto-currency called Bitcoin have some competition out in the wild this week in the artist-inspired CoinYe West. This currency, while lovely to look at, will likely never …

ZTE clearly wants to make its presence felt at CES this year; it's coming to the show with no less than seven devices. The Grand S II headlines the pack as the company's first smartphone with "high-precision" voice comma...

Looks like the way we drink soda is about to get a whole lot smarter--or, at the very least, more connected. OpenStack Engineering Manager Alavaro Lopez Ortega stumbled across the fact that The Coca Cola Company recently...

The best camera is the one you have with you (especially if it has LTE).

Back in the 1920s, the New York Electrical Show was a bit like the Consumer Electronics Show of its day. New Yorkers could head down to Grand Central Palace to check out the latest in high-tech gadgets -- gadgets that we...

The city is the most complex machine ever invented. Running optimally, the city generates opportunity and provides a platform for interaction, ideas, and improvement. As a concept, the city has been iterated-upon, smashe...

Anyone can take a tour of this waste treatment plant in Valencia, Spain, to check out its automatized trash-sorting systems. The Israeli architects who designed the 759,600-square-foot system describe it as a public obse...