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The Navy announced plans today to deploy an electromagnetic railgun that can do some epic damage. Set to go into testing on one of Navy's joint high speed vessels (JHSV) in 2016, the gun uses Lorentz Force to "rapidly ac...

Price: $19 Duet, and the PROTAG app, is an entire eco-system built upon latest Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy technology, to prevent you from losing your phone. It's your phone's ever watchful buddy. It is a small (2mmx2mm) ta...

Price: $41 The Samurai Umbrella with a sword-like handle and shoulder-mounted scabbard will make you feel well armed to fight the good fight against the vast army of raindrops that attack you whenever you step outdoors. ...

For the past week I have been using the Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and the Gear Fit health and fitness wearable. Both the Samsung GS5 and the Gear Fit highlight some of the ways Samsung is continuing to evolve. The biggest .....

Google could be looking to the put the main screen of its Chromecast to work, just before it beams videos to your TV. Reddit user asjmcguire recently uncovered HTML code for the dongle's home screen that references curre...

To us, the bridge is a way to get across the water, but to cormorants in San Francisco Bay, the old Bay Bridge is home sweet home. And the 800 protected birds currently nesting there are not very keen on moving to the ne...

Even if the mention of trigonometry, calculus, or algebra gets your heart racing and your palms sweating, you still might appreciate this watch that demonstrates the first proposition in book one of Euclid's Elements. Be...

We see wonderful images from space all the time, but now you can expect them to come dripping in Hudson, Sierra or Toaster--because Instagram has finally made it into space.

Jalopnik says that the top of the Porsche 911 Targa is completely bonkers . I think I agree. Instead of the entire hard top roof disappearing into the car like other hardtop convertibles, the 911 Targa gets to keep the s...

Titanfall doesn't officially release for Xbox 360 until tomorrow, but somehow a few gamers have gotten it early and, what's more, they've decided to show it off. The good news is that the game appears to play exactly the...

If there was a day to be joyful for the end of software builds, today is that day. Both Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 have officially been dumped by …

Star Wars fans, amidst all the speculation and excitement surrounding the upcoming movies, were almost graced with a video game based on Darth Maul, according to a demo reel that …

The Olympic Games are often a bittersweet milestone for a city, filled with economic and political ups and downs . But it would appear that Oslo's 2022 aspirations are set for success in the hands of Norwegian design fir...

Netflix just added 4K, but it won't work everywhere.

300 empty desks were placed in the street outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters earlier today as part of a protest demanding extra funding for disadvantaged youth. The 300 desks are meant to represent ...

Taking a full spoon of corn starch in your mouth and blowing on a flame while someone films it in slow motion looks like a lot of fun. Just don't do this if you don't want to burn down your home or your eyebrows, ok? OK!...

Picnic season is upon us: Time for outside snacking, beers on the grass, sun on the face, and wind in the hair. These good times are often--and unfortunately--punctuated by the scourge of ground-sitters the world over: t...

HTC was taking no chances with the HTC One M8, confirming not only versions of its new flagship for the key US carriers but a Google Play edition right at …

YouTube is chock full of falling domino videos, but Numberphile's Matt Parker may have trumped them all with a complicated 10,000 domino setup that just so happens to function as a very crude computer. How is such a thin...

Since a fix was released yesterday, a bug has been crawling around the internet for a staggering two years. Introduced to glom on to the system known as OpenSSL back …

MediaFire is going after Google Drive by offering some dirt cheap pricing for its recently overhauled cloud storage. If you sign up now, you can get 1TB for $2.50 per month--or $25 per year. Under the new plans, the regu...

Author Michael Lewis is best known for uncovering hidden corners of our present, whether in baseball (Moneyball), the financial collapse (The Big Short), or high frequency trading (this month's Flash Boys). But in the Se...