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Price: $18 KeySmart has revolutionized the way we carry keys. The unique an patented design shrinks your bulky key ring into an attractive, compact unit. Made from Aircraft Aluminum, Stainless Steel hardware, and Laser E...

Price: $499 Birdwatchers and hikers can finally enjoy macro-effect viewing in their trips with the introduction of the Leica Monovid Monocular. Having 8-fold magnification, this is the ideal tool for viewing the finest d...

A mixture of regulations and increased energy costs have prodded many consumers towards LED and compact fluorescent bulbs, the former of which in particular comes with a (relatively speaking) high …

When a friend asks for money, you may soon be able to crane your eye up and speak to the cloud rather than hand them cash. Citing a "source close …

The House Judiciary Committee is getting ready to begin mark up procedures on the USA Freedom Act, a bill that would effectively end the NSA's mass surveillance program as it exists today. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has launched a new website and companion mobile app that allows people who are witnesses to large emergencies can submit photo or video evidence they might have recorded. On th...

A series of email exchanges between Google executives and (now former) NSA director Keith Alexander show that tech companies behind the services you use aren't being all the way forthcoming about how closely they've work...

Some musicians can visualize music, and soon that skill will be matched with a new sort of "instrument" -- the Mi.Mu, a pair of gesture-based gloves that allow one to …

"Absurd" move is another drone crackdown by regulators citing inapplicable law.

Given how hard antivirus software makers push you to sign up, you'd think that business was booming. Far from it, according to Symantec's Brian Dye. He tells the Wall Street Journal that antivirus tools like his company'...

GoPlug is a Kickstarter project aiming to cram backup batteries, USB charging ports, and--for the first time--a true three-prong outlet (or Euro-style two-prong, if that's your jam) into backpacks and luggage. Sounds pre...

Many of us non-Angelenos think of L.A. as a fairly flat place, but it's taken serious manpower to build this sprawling city on such rugged terrain. Among the more Sisyphean projects was the construction of Dodger Stadium...

I like many cities in Europe, but only a handful that I love dearly because they're full of welcoming people who enjoy fine drinking and eating as much as the Spaniards do. Madrid, Gothenburg, Berlin, Rome--and the seren...

Sure, you're likely not buying $300 fonts just for your Pages and Keynote work on an iPad, but for those who've already splurged for a bite of Hoefler & Co.'s catalog, the option is pretty tempting. The popular type foun...

The ability to text an emergency to 911 has long been in the works, and will finally be realized this month. Starting May 15, all four major US carriers will …

Fanless Bay Trail laptops and other devices expand the Chrome OS ecosystem.

The group known as Google Ventures operates "entirely" separate from Google. Google Ventures operates independently from Google, that is, and it makes entirely financially-driven decisions with how it invests its …

We doubt that there's a horde of wearable fans jonesing for Epson's second-gen Moverio glasses -- not after Google's one-day Glass sale, anyway -- but they're at last available, several weeks behind schedule. Spend $700 ...

Well, this is awkward. You're reading a 19th-century romance novel where the plucky heroine is finally reunited with her lover, so she joyously flings "her anus around his neck." Wait, what? It turns out this is a surpri...

To stoke maximum fear, ransomware geolocates users, targets them by country.

Post-NSA secrecy, many big tech companies like Google were outspoken about the practices used by the NSA to gather info. Since that time, they've gone on the offensive, trying to …

There's a new PlayStation Vita handheld out today. It's called the Vita Slim, and while for the most part it's unchanged, it does improve on a number of small things compared with the original Vita. Though there is the i...