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Square is a company that has been around for a while now and is known for mobile payments among other things. One of the apps that Square offers is Square …

The Hawthorn is the second model from Melbourne Watch Company, a new brand of boutique mechanical watches from Australia. The Hawthorn aims to "bridge the gap" between sports and dress styles and features the robust Miyo...

Hey Mister Man, what are you doing filming us with that camera over there. Hey Mister Man, I don't appreciate you tempting me with food to trick me into dancing like a monkey. Hey Mister Man, that's it, I'm stealing your...

The hardware announced last week is now available to see.

Still unsure where unlocking your mobile device falls under the eyes of the law? Legislation just passed through the US House of Representatives that might clear things up, but there's a catch. The Unlocking Consumer Cho...

T-Mobile's efforts to transition customers from MetroPCS' aging CDMA network to its own GSM and LTE frequencies is going quite swimmingly. The company has been bragging that it's well ahead of schedule, and in some marke...

Google's got plenty of moonshots brewing in its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), but one of the most intriguing is its modular smartphone design, called Project Ara. Because Ara's a platform designed to lets user...

Tesla has announced a surprise $1.6bn convertible notes offering, and plans to use the money to accelerate its Gigafactory project to mass-produce Li-Ion batteries at more affordable rates. The news …

After almost two decades retired, Bill Watterson--the genius who crafted the universally beloved Calvin & Hobbes from 1985 to 1995--has published a new cartoon: A movie poster for Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder's Stripp...

Recall the SeaOrbiter we detailed back in November? It has hit its crowdfunding goal of about $444,700 USD, and as such is destined to set sail for ocean parts unknown. …

Meet Boneco, the world's first beekeeping donkey. He lives in Brazil and helps his owner, Manuel Juraci, make honey. Boneco also does not appear to like his beekeeping suit. But boy does he look adorable while wearing it...

Of course, this insano knife-throwing video is not real--after all, these guys are not Russian. But the fake is so well made that you'll swear it is real. I went through it frame by frame and you can't notice the trick. ...

Google will be hosting a Project Ara Developers' Conference this spring to walk devs through its modular smartphone platform , which might one day allow people to design exactly the phone they want. Not a dev? There will...

New secure smartphone for government submitted for FCC approval.

Immaculate Infatuation is a food blog run by some guys who aren't your average foodies. So they know that Instagrams of food are so overdone, which means they also know how to make them good. Just refer to their hunger-i...

The future of Bitcoin has become uncertain in recent times, with Mt. Gox finding itself the source of controversy in recent days and its closure spawning the mass-sale of the …

The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon Communications is investigating similar security breaches at two more as-yet-unnamed retailers that occurred around the same time as the massive Target credit card hack late l...

Sony Electronics is closing 20 of its 31 US-based store locations, the Japanese consumer electronics giant announced this afternoon. The news follows layoffs at Sony affecting approximately 5,000 employees worldwide; it'...

Hang out in a big plastic igloo; see a booth made out of red milk crates...

Last time we checked in with Peter Jellitsch, the Austrian artist was using modern alchemy (aka a radio-wave-measuring device) to turn Wi-Fi's invisible peak-and-valley signals into physical objects . Now he's gone 2D, c...

This is why I love data and data visualization: The larger the pizza, the cheapest the price per square inch is. Get the largest size, eat the rest at room temperature the next day.

As hotly-anticipated smartphones go, the Samsung Galaxy S5 ranked up there alongside the new iPhone, with all eyes on the dominant force in Android handsets at Mobile World Congress this …