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Oddly enough, our current understanding of physics doesn't actually preclude the possibility that a black hole's inner workings are governed by the whims of Japanese fashion models.

Price: $45 100dB HiFi Bluetooth speakers with 50 hours playtime in white, grey, black, and champagne gold. Using advanced BMR technology, currently installed in the new Bentley Continental, the FS-X is able to produce su...

Google is updating Android to continuously check phones and tablets for rogue apps, picking out those with malware behavior even if they've managed to squeeze through the initial verification. The …

New rumors are circulating that have to do with the iPads that Apple is expected to launch this year. The source of these new rumors is analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from …

The French just made it illegal for many employees to respond to work emails after 6pm. A city in Sweden is trying out a 30-hour work week in earnest. But while the prospect of working less and enjoying more leisure time...

If you picture what sound looks like in your head, you'll probably think of some picture graph of a sound wave. But no one can actually see those up and down scribbles with their eyeballs. So what does sound actually loo...

Amazon is buying Comixology, one of the major players in digital comics. This is huge acquisition for Amazon which revolutionized the way we consume regular books with the Kindle. Can it lend some of that mojo to the wor...

In 2012, American homes consumed 3.65 billion kilowatthours (kWh) worth of electricity--up from 720 million kWh in 1950--more than double per household than our British counterparts, and second only to China. How did the...

Back in 2013, when Istanbul was still competing to host the 2020 Olympics, the city announced plans to build "the world's largest and busiest airport terminal." The Olympic bid ended up failing--but Istanbul still wants ...

The Asteroid Redirect Mission, which has a fairly self-explanatory name, is part of NASA's mission to develop technologies for redirecting and otherwise neutralizing possible asteroid threats. With the mission comes …

Samsung's Gear Fit and Galaxy S5 are here, promising a brace of new features and a reboot to the South Korean company's wearables strategy. Our full reviews of both are …

When Matt Oscamou headed out to Starbucks Wednesday afternoon, he had no clue he'd be leaving half an hour later in an Uber with a venture capitalist (VC) from Google. "My preparation window was not even seven minutes," ...

Most pocket-sized printers are really shrunken versions of what you'd see on your desk. Rather boring, don't you think? Zuta Labs' upcoming Pocket Printer robot may liven things up a little. Instead of using an old-fashi...

It might look positively adorable in this image, but don't be fooled: this pathogen, known as Entamoeba histolytica, eats human intestines alive, cell by cell.

It's a crapshoot: if you're descending into one of New York City's underground subway stations, you're probably going to drop a call. It's frustrating, but it'll be a little less likely soon. AT&T has expanded its contra...

We may not yet have achieved our Jetsons utopia, but advancements in robotics have happened at a clipped rate over the years, and slowly robotic devices have worked their way …

In the oncoming war of the wearable device, it's usability, not their power or aesthetics, that will drive the market. While Samsung releases three new smartwatch devices this season with …

Today in a special edition of Nintendo Direct, the game maker announced the upcoming arrival of the new title Tomodachi Life, a Mii-based game that allows gamers to turn their …

Walk around New York City, and you're bound to see the work of these "wall dogs"--the men and women who paint billboard-size ads by hand, high above the city streets. Their work is exacting, and the places they paint are...

This week there's little question that the internet security world has been tossed down a flight of stairs. With Heartbleed, a relatively major bit of a mistake was made in …

The US Navy will begin in-the-wild trials of a laser weapon that can bring down aircraft or small vessels this summer, controlled just like a video game and costing about …

If there's one downside to a summer spent relaxing at garden parties and backyard barbecues, it's having to dine with disposable plastic cutlery. It's flimsy and it's awkward--and thanks to designer Wei Young, you'd be f...