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Price: $110 Find the combination of an extraordinary magnetic charging case and wall plate in this latest iPhone 5 Magnetic Conductive Charger by BlueFlame. The case serving as an all-purpose cover for phone protection c...

It's like Sega and Sony all over again. We don't mean the hardware arms race (although that's certainly happening), but how the smartphone world's two top players are now fighting over the most popular games... and their...

Our latest update on how Netflix is doing is here, and buried within the earnings details the company revealed two announcements that have been a long time coming: it's raising prices for new customers, and it is (after ...

Move over, Google Fiber. There's (maybe) a new gigabit internet game in town, and it's (maybe) coming to 100 cities and municipalities by way through AT&T, at some point in the future. Maybe.

An "electric horseless carriage " was unveiled at the New York Auto Show last week. At the ceremony, it was heralded as the future of tourist rides in Central Park by its builders and local politicians alike, a replaceme...

The time is upon us for this year's Lyrid meteor shower, which takes place every April, with this year's shower expected to peak early tomorrow morning. While there's nothing quite …

If you expected Google to sell the product of their recently-acquired company's works, Nest, to be sold by Google Play, you might have another thing coming. The product was listed …

A brief exchange in the back of last week's issue of New Scientist asks: "I understand that the lines and sagging skin we acquire as we age are due to the sun and gravity. If I lived in a space station in zero or microgr...

Last year, the original Xperia Z Tablet was one of our absolute favorite tablets . It was so wonderfully thin and light, plus waterproofiness? Fantastic. But the laggy software Sony put on top kind of knee-capped its pot...

For all but the T-Mobile HTC One (M7), the process of pushing HTC's Sense 6 to smartphones has reached Integration phase. The HTC One Max and the HTC One Mini …

Over the last couple of days you might've heard that a company called Palcohol has been cleared to market powdered alcohol in the United States. It sounds exciting! And scary! Are we all going to be drowning in boozy Ova...

Amazon Fire TV 's voice search is one of its best features, but at launch it only played nice with Amazon stuff. That's about to change--last week it got support for Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime, and later this year ...

According to international box-office count, Frozen is now the highest grossing animated film of all time. It's in international markets where Disney's Ice Queen-inspired feature has reached $729.3 million, officially �...

Another Russian meteor has been caught on camera, brightening the 2am sky across the Kola Peninsula and sparking a race to find debris, despite astronomers arguing it probably disintegrated before …

Why sip on a nice glass of scotch when you can get tipsy on salad instead? A new product called Palcohol takes the pesky liquid out of your favorite drinks; turning them into a potent powder you can just sprinkle on your...

Today, the Japanese tech giant Hitachi announced a contract to build two of the fastest elevator in the world for a forthcoming skyscraper in China. Seems innocuous enough, right? But buried within the press release are ...

Netflix has revealed plans to put up its prices, though the increase in fees will initially only affect new subscribers rather than those already using the streaming service. The confirmation …

Netflix will enable voice search on Amazon's Fire TV later this year if all goes to plan, the company has quietly confirmed today. Revealed as part of the firm's financial …

If you've been enjoying Mike Judge's (King of the Hill, Office Space) take on Silicon Valley, you aren't alone. After just three episodes, HBO has ordered a second season of the eponymous show. What's more, the outfit ha...

Bad news: Netflix will be hiking its prices for new subscribers. Per a first quarter letter to shareholders, CEO Reed Hastings says:

The newest version of Google Hangouts for Android now merges SMS and non-SMS messages into a single stream in the same hangout. Yesssssssssss. The update is rolling out to the Google Play store this week, but there's an ...

Since Google tacked on SMS messages to its Hangouts app, it has been tweaking the experience to keep convos on the up and up, and this week it's making a major change. In version 2.1 of the software, text messages and Ha...