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In some ways, it's an ominous pitch. By measuring the "magnetic fingerprint" of any building in the world, the Finnish company IndoorAtlas can conjure up a startlingly precise indoor map of any building. It's technology ...

Researchers and marketers often want to know what catches your eye, whether it's players on the basketball court or just a new shampoo at the store. They may have an easier time figuring this out with Tobii's latest eye-...

According to RatedRR, the "XS1 is the largest-caliber Precision Guided Firearm available today." This video demonstrates how its automatic targeting system works over 1,123 yards. That's 0.6 miles (one kilometer.) This i...

New information leaked from Edward Snowden says the NSA used a legal wiretap to jumpstart a wiretapping effort in the Bahamas. A DEA tap was surreptitiously tapped by the NSA, …

There is a lot to read between the lines of today’s Surface event from Microsoft. Microsoft’s vision for the Surface continues to be of a device both a great tablet and a great laptop. Previous versions of the Surfac...

Apple is believed to be in discussions with various Internet Service Providers (ISP) an a content delivery agreement that would see Apple content pushed to consumers quickly. The agreement is …

A team of engineers at the University of Texas at Austin recently created the world's smallest, fastest nanomotor. Designed to power microscopic machines that could deliver medicine or fight cancer, this thing will fit i...

The Surface Mini everyone was expecting this morning was likely in the works until recently. A new report by Bloomberg notes that executives at Microsoft nixed the smaller tablet at …

Twentieth century science was particularly obsessed with finding new ways to approach love -- or in some cases, lust. During the 1920s, technology magazines insisted that you'd be able to find the perfect partner through...

Malicious Android app contains remote bugging, SMS interception, and much more.

I really like David Lynch and I wish this wasn't just a trailer edited by a fan. It isn't too far from reality, though. George Lucas approached David Lynch in 1981 to direct The Return of the Jedi, the third and last epi...

This week the folks behind iWork for iCloud in the Apple software ecosystem have let loose a number of updates. These updates affect Pages, Numbers, and Keynote as well, with …

Sure, works of fiction are hardly subject the rules of science, but the folks behind It's OK To Be Smart set out to explain many of the enigmas surrounding Game of Thrones. In the PBS digital short that awaits after the ...

If you're tired of your local snail and slug population undoing all the hard work you've put into your garden, there's finally a tool that lets you choose between getting rid of them humanely, or turning them into ironic...

This 49-foot (15 meter) Bryde's whale came close to accidentally swallowing diver Rainer Schimpf off the coat of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The whale appeared right under Rainer, going up mouth open, swimming at full ...

The FBI has a problem. The agency needs to hire hackers to build out its cyber crime division, but it also will not hire anyone who's smoked weed in the past three years. And guess what? A lot of hackers like to smoke we...

Watching our small family of Roombas tidy up has been one of the biggest hits at Gizmodo's Home of the Future this week. They're just! So! Damn! Adorable! But in 1949--long before the sweet little guys were making our fl...

Dodge has outed its new 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, billed as the most powerful V8 Chrysler has ever offered, mustering over 600 HP, sitting atop of a new Challenger …

Good news: Twitter has backed out of talks to purchase SoundCloud, thus avoiding ruining one of the best services on the internet. Sounds like Twitter listened to our plea . [WSJ]

We'd surmise that a few folks were disappointed then Microsoft's Surface event concluded earlier today. Rumors swirled that the "small gathering" tease meant a more compact version of Redmond's tablet was imminent, but i...

This week an 11-minute documentary called "Emotions in a Different Light" has been released to the web for the public. This documentary is a relatively new way of going about …

Summer is nearly upon us, and we want to have bodies that we wouldn’t mind showing off at a beach. However, getting from winter frump to to a Baywatch figure is not such an easy task. You have to monitor the quality of...