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The deal covers some existing patents as well as the next 10 years of filings.

Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice . It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life. Starting today, Wikipedia will make that possible with the Wikipedia Voice Intro Pro...

Documenting a crime scene well is super important. Once it gets reopened to the public, there's no going back. You can take all the pictures you want, and they might not cut it, but the Roswell Police have a new future-c...

It's amazing to see how different the sun looks depending on the filters you use. Here you can see it in ultraviolet light, looking as evil as the darkest pits of Mordor. I imagine those sinuous filaments are nefarious s...

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. CES wrapped just two weeks ago, ...

Gaming is about to get a bit more interactive. This "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" app goes by the name of Palantir - makes a lot of sense if you know …

Windows-based streaming could round out your SteamOS library

Snowball fight? Those are for idle teens who have nothing better to do than to go windmilling around, awkwardly flinging globes of snow with little speed and even less accuracy. Snowball war, complete with its own custom...

What appeared to be a relatively small news bit from the folks at camera-focused group Looxcie earlier this year during CES 2014 has suddenly taken center stage, as their Enterprise-focused …

It's thirty years since the birth of Apple's Mac, and new footage showing Steve Jobs' second, longer demonstration of the new computer has emerged to commemorate the anniversary. Coming only …

Multi-gigapixel panoramas are rad. It's like peeping at the world through a telescope from the comfort of your own ground-floor living room. But Microsoft has made the concept even more fun with its 20 Gigapixel "ArtZoom...

You'd have to be crazy naive to think piracy flag-bearer The Pirate Bay is free of porn, but you'll be forgiven for underestimating exactly how much is hiding out there. It's 35 percent. The Pirate Bay's new uploads last...

In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14,000-volt shock to his left shoulder , presented with "bilateral stellate a...

So maybe you're not too keen on the idea of falling in love with a completely artificial computer personality. Who could blame you? That's pretty weird. Maybe instead, the future will be a place where you can learn to lo...

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. China is facing a pollution crisis. In cities like Beijing, the smog has gotte...

30 years ago, the landscape of personal computing was vastly different. It hardly even existed, compared to what it is today. Footage of the Mac's initial unveil is out there, but this second, more polished run--a presen...

Originally built as a supersonic strategic bomber for delivering nuclear strikes on Moscow, the B-1B Lancer has played a variety of roles for the Air Force in its nearly 30 years of service. And thanks to a newly upgrade...

It's been 30 years since Apple first launched the Macintosh, and this week has been littered with clever tributes to the computer. Members of the Boston Computer Society, however, have unearthed a big treasure in the his...

Have you heard of BLU Products before? They happen to be one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world, and in their latest announcement, we have a spanking new smartphone to check out which will als...

iPhone cases come and go, there is no doubt about that. The thing is, I do wonder how many of them tend to lean more on the functional than the fashionable side of things? Incipio is surely a name that many people would ...

The Bose QuietComfort 15 is a limited-edition product that offers acoustic noise cancelling headphones. It's an ideal travel companion for frequent flyers who want to drown out all the noise within the aircraft and focus...

The Molla Space Car 8GB USB Flashdrive is a flash drive masquerading as a toy car. You can choose either a cop car or an ambulance. Both have the detachable memory stick tucked into the flashing light on top of...