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It's Mothers Day! You should call the woman who gave birth to you! But don't stop there, give her the gift that will warm her heart and everyone else's: a retweet.

The guys from One Minute Science are back with a particularly grim explainer this weekend: Why just about every cubic foot of ocean is embedded with tiny bits of plastic. You've heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ...

​Microsoft's Cortana may be younger than counterparts such as Google Now and Apple's Siri, but the virtual assistant already stands out thanks to some unique features. One prime example is Notebook, which the service u...

Nintendo's Wii U is officially dead. There. I said it. I know Nintendo fans don't want to hear it, I know Nintendo doesn't want to hear it, and I know …

While clicking around through a long binge of truck-camping photographs--feeling totally and absolutely desperate for the summer--I found a listing for this old Fire Service truck in the Cairngorms National Park of Scotl...

We all know pi , at least the first three digits of it. If for some reason you forgot them though, there's good news. All you need to get that knowledge back is some aluminum foil, ingenuity, and a shotgun.

The 964-foot-long MSC Magnifica isn't just a luxurious, $550 million cruise ship. It's the world's first 4,500 passenger musical instrument, and it rocked a slow, loooouuud rendition of The White Stripes' "Seven Nation A...

Wouldn't it be great if everything was as good at healing itself as our own skin? That's the concept behind a new self-healing plastic that's been developed over at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Unlike ...

When it comes to digital cameras, I am quite sure that many people would think of names such as Nikon and Canon first, before they go down the pecking order for more conventional shooters (system cameras included), such ...

Parrot still hasn't released that MiniDrone we saw at CES, but its already got something new up it's sleeve: BeBop. Unveiled Monday, the indoor/outdoor quadricopter has a new accessory for extended-range flights, and giv...

RC cars and helicopters are cool and all, but if you want a combo breaker in your collection, here's something different: a multi-legged robot that runs. At the moment, you can only get this remote-controlled sprinter ca...

Job got you checking work emails even on your day off? Nostalgic for the pre-smartphone era? "When you left the office, you left work behind," you muse, wistfully. Quit fooling yourself: 25 years ago, the sportscar-drivi...

Sky's Now TV streaming service has experienced its fair share of issues in recent months, but today it couldn't have picked a better time to leave users in the lurch. While previous hiccups took the premiere of Game of T...

In honor of the women from whence we came, SNL aired an absolutely perfect Mother's Day Game Show skit last night. But of all the mom-related jokes, none hit quite as close to home as 'Which of These Emails Did I Send Yo...

Wile E. Coyote never had much luck with the ACME Corporation's seemingly infinite supply of wacky wares ; poor guy couldn't catch a break. If you are and always have been on Team Road Runner, these Firecracker Lamps are ...

Welcome to the Joystiq Weekly wrap-up where we present some of the best stories and biggest gaming news from our sister-publication....

Alfa Romeo's beautiful 4C coupe will get eight new siblings by 2018, owner Fiat has promised, pumping $7bn into sports-focused new platforms, evocative design, and a return to core "brand …

Move would be part of an effort to unify features across multiple platforms.

Glow-in-the-dark roads are finally a reality ; at least in the Netherlands. But we've been waiting on this particular vision of the future for quite a while now -- for over 50 years, in fact.

Google is readying a significant - and potentially controversial - Gmail update for the desktop, leaked screenshots of the new interface suggest, making considerable changes that may take some getting …

The Global Positioning System constellation of satellites has been helping lost travelers find their way for a while now, but they only really started showing up in cars in the mid- to late- 1990s, and in big numbers eve...

Assuming the rumor is true and Apple is indeed buying Beats, then reading between the lines becomes important for those of us who develop future outlooks for specific companies and product segments. There are pros and co...