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After an extremely close voting round, the Wusthof Classic Cooks Knife has cut through the competition as your choice for Best Chef's Knife. You praised it specifically for its durability, hand-protecting shape, heft, ba...

Different eras have different ideas. Different folks like different strokes. Different people in different countries have different definitions of what beauty is. So here's an amazing experiment to see that, well, differ...

The Amazon Appstore already gives away one free app each day, but now it's gone and decided to give away 30 apps, worth a combined total of $100, for free to anyone with an Android phone. Here are the pick of the bunch t...

The world's largest diamond, the Cullinan, is a tad over 3,100 carats uncut. It's estimated value is some $2 billion, and it only weighs about 1.37 pounds. That stone, while enormous relative to others like it, is but an...

The largest oil rig* in the world got placed today on its drilling spot off the Russian Pacific coast, near Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. The $12 billion, 200,000-ton structure--without counting its base--will suck up...

If people here on earth already fight over diamonds, imagine what they would do over one the size of the planet itself. That might actually be what David Kaplan and astronomers from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have...

Network equipment expert NETGEAR is once again trying to claim an "industry first" title. With the Nighthawk X6 AC3200 (R800), it is unveiling the first Tri-Band router to hit the market, promising to deliver to home use...

YouTube is about to get smoother: Google has announced that its video site is getting support for videos running at 48-and-60 frames-per-second. Slick.

A bat signal from the streaming stick will let you pass videos to the TV.

Dan has summoned the team together to deliver some important news, so we have a full house today. With 65 episodes under the belt, the Eurocast is joining the likes of the HD podcast and taking a hiatus. We're restructur...

GE is getting into the smart lighting industry, revealing its upcoming connected light bulbs. As with the competing Philips hue (read our review), these bulbs will let users control the lighting in their home or office u...

Now that the fine folks at Fleshlight have made a fuckable iPad case , it's a good time for a crash course in how to clean your, um, personal fluids off of Cyberskin. Cyberskin, yeah. That's the official name for the stu...

There are some emergencies in life that don't leave you panicked. Like if you happen to stumble across a sunset at a gorgeous park and desperately need to picnic, or you've wandered into an outdoor concert and need somew...

Beer may be as old as civilization itself, but modern molecular biology could teach craft brewers some new tricks. Troels Prahl, a brewer and microbiologist with White Labs, is currently analyzing the full DNA sequences ...

Google tackles car infotainment, but safety concerns limit third-party apps.

Google announced its plan to take on the billions of TV viewers in the world with a groundbreaking product that would blur the lines between internet and broadcast -- four years ago. Executives from Dish Network, Best Bu...

Astronaut and Vine aficionado Reid Wiseman just posted this video of a thunderstorm over Texas as viewed from the International Space Station in space. Just try and take your eyes off it. I dare you.

I'm really digging all these Guardians of the Galaxy -style trailers. This movie's vibe is so good and fun that it can even make the Star Wars prequels look good! What is this black magic? Maybe Disney should give all th...

Well look at that, just as it happened seven, 14, and 21 days ago, it's Friday. The weekend's so close you can taste it. Just a few more hours left at your desk. Come, let's drag ass together.

The Clapper may have been little more than a joke in its day, but it's stuck around for a reason: Simple home automation is the basis of our Jetsons-fueled dream . And Reemo--a combination wristband, receiver, and nothin...

Seven years ago, the original iPhone was released to the public. Serving as a catalyst for change in the markets of mobile computing, music, and communication, the iPhone essentially single-handedly ushered in the age of...

It used you be that if you wanted to round up some chums on a Google+ video hangout in Chrome to figure out how Sherlock really faked his death, you all had to download and install a plugin first. 'Twas hardly a dealbrea...