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In our post-Snowden world, concerns about privacy are at an all-time high and tech companies have been caught in the cross-fire. Since the NSA leaks began, big-name companies have been …

Imagine you're a river herring, maybe about a foot long, swimming merrily upstream when you suddenly hit a giant concrete wall. How do you cross it? Engineers are now designing new fishways disguised as broad, rocky pool...

For wannabe thieves, nothing is more tantalizing than an empty street and a vulnerable ATM. Soon, though, they could be facing more than just failure. Taking design cues from mother nature herself, researchers are buildi...

It's that time of year again! Every six months or so, the media rave about the latest advancements in flying car technology. They insist your flying car is ALMOST HERE! No, no it's not.

It was a big promise: unlimited data, without quotes, throttling or restrictions. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has repeatedly defended the company's pledge to offer a true unlimited plan, but now the company is quietly eating it...

We built these cities. All over the world, the crumbling ones, the glistening ones, the towering ones, the little ones--cities are built for people. So when you see one that's empty, it's usually eery. Somehow, however, ...

Lawmakers questioned Comcast on their proposed Time Warner grab today, asking how the company felt it would benefit consumers. The $45 billion deal, expected to affect some 20 million users, …

You can already use your smartphone to do things like hail a pimp ride home or order an artisan pizza, obviously the next step is cancer detection, right? Researchers at the University of Houston think they've created a ...

Nintendo has no problem with its Mii-based Tomodachi Life being off-kilter, but when it comes to the handheld game's same-sex avatars being able to wed, well, that's a different story. Tomodachi Life is all about the int...

Now that we're this close to sending humans to Mars, NASA thought it best to start preparing for one of its biggest goals: deep space exploration. Three NASA Ames Research Center studies that aim to explore the effects o...

According to the Financial Times, Apple is closing in on an acquisition of Beats, the headphone manufacturer turned streaming music service . The $3.2 billion deal would give Apple control over a powerful brand, but at t...

Godzilla is nearly at our doorstep. In less than a week, Godzilla's 2014 big-screen movie will be bringing mayhem to the world. Understandably, the folks at Air & Space with …

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Human tracking doesn't stop with cabbies. One lawsuit might decide if you're next.

Folks living in retirement communities around the US may have just been given another activity option. As part of the Speaking Exchange project for language schools, creative agency FCB Brazil paired language students wi...

Sushi is a treacherous food to eat at a desk because of the potential splash factor--shirt-front soy sauce is not a good look. The good news: That will never be a problem with these adorable Nigiri notes! The bad news: Y...

There's a game out there right now being developed at the same time as Unreal Tournament 2014. It goes by the name Open Tournament, and it's a completely community-made new-age …

If you've visited Vegas anytime since 2009, you've likely seen the empty hotel. It doesn't have any signage, rather, it's often swaddled in ads, like the world's priciest billboard--a bloated Cirque du Soleil-wrapped blu...

Apple insists that the US government doesn't have backdoor access to its data (despite signs to the contrary). So what happens when law enforcement comes knocking at the company's door, then? We have a fairly good idea a...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is no stranger to making generally awful (and excessive) patenting decisions, but that doesn't make its latest grant any less absurd. Amazon has officially been granted a patent...

Need an action cam that can withstand drops and a dip in the pool? Rollei's newest offering can do all that and then some. Their rugged S30 camera offers shock …

You remember Popcorn Time, the Netflix for torrents that suffered a self-inflicted death ? Well, it never really died. The open source project lives on in the form a forked app version, available for download for Mac, Wi...