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The aptly named Black Pal Dream-Line Pencils from Japanese company Kirin Pencil Co. allow you to write and draw pictures in multi-colors using a single pencil. For the record, it's called Black Pal because it's blacker t...

The North American International Auto Show kicks off today. This show is also sometimes called the Detroit auto show. There will be a number of new vehicles unveiled at the …

Google Street View is brilliant. It finds us when we're lost, it shows us where we are, it reveals places we'll never get to visit, and so on and so forth. But you know what's even more amazing? The crazy neural network ...

Google will own the makers of the Nest learning thermostat and smart smoke detector

We'll be honest: if you told us a big company was going to buy Nest, we wouldn't have guessed Google. After all, the home automation company was founded by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, both ex-members of the original iPo...

HTC has declined to update the 20- and 14-month-old devices

At the moment you'll find the folks behind the open-source project known as Limelight working on Android devices, attempting to make the PC streaming option for games through Valve's Steam …

When we last saw metamaterials, they were helping us create real-life invisibility cloaks . But, in even more exciting news for true nerds, light-bending metamaterial can also do math. Not just simple math, but calculus....

What a weird week for weather, huh? On earth, it was so cold that Canada got frostquakes . In space, a massive solar flare sent so many particles hurtling toward us that northern lights were visible outside of the Arctic...

This week the folks at Nest Labs, Inc. have spoken up on Google's intentions to buy the smaller company outright. Google will be dropping $3.2 billion USD in cash to …

The Kirkaldy Testing Museum in London was where materials were sent to die: to be tested to their breaking points, often pulverized, shattered, broken in two from sheer strain, punched clean through, or stretched--ripped...

On Christmas Eve, word surfaced of plans by HP to launch two smartphones by the year's end, something that didn't pan out but could add substance to the newest rumor …

Surprise! Google just announced it has acquired the home automation startup, Nest, for $3.2 billion.

You probably won't be surprised one bit to learn there's a new Bitcoin competitor out there. A group of cryptographers just announced the creation of Zerocoin, an ultra-anonymous cryptocurrency that's otherwise a lot lik...

Just Mobile was back at CES to sprinkle some magic dust on its new accessories, and this time it involves a mixture of batteries, Lightning docks, cables and styli. We're most excited by the company's AluPen Digital, a f...

Windows 8 was an incredible change , if not quite incredible. It wasn't until Windows 8.1 that a lot of the kinks were smoothed out. Now, Microsoft's annual BUILD conference is coming in April, and rumor has it that Wind...

Musical outings will be played from coast-to-coast this year in the first set of Outkast concerts since their appearance in Santa Ana, California, back in 2009. This tour will be …

Following security warnings and the eventual massive leaking of Snapchat usernames and numbers, the disappearing-messages service has been experiencing a glut of spam, something users have been reporting in great …

Adam Magyar is a wizard who knows how to freeze reality, capturing the passing of time into one single image, turning daily moments that are constantly ignored by everyone into fascinating views of humanity and the world...

Nobody knows the future. This may seem like an obvious statement, but it bears repeating. Nobody knows the future.

Portland celebrates another safe year for cyclists, Hamburg goes car-free, San Francisco rents its curbs to tech buses, Houston's got some wacky architecture, and L.A. is the city of the future--or a city in decline? It'...

It looks like Android 4.2.2 will be the end of the upgrade roadmap for the HTC One X and X+, two of the company's primary flagship phones in 2012. The phone maker tweeted out -- and later confirmed to the press -- that n...