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It's time to get in shape, so suggests Magellan with their newest smart sports watch Echo Fit. This smartwatch is able to track your activity, track your sleep, and look like a relatively non-obtrusive piece of machinery...

The USS Montgomery, the second of the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship made for the United States Navy. Out of the water, it looks like this 127.4-meter (418-foot) this high-speed trimaran (47 knots on sprint!) co...

Sony has been slapped with a lawsuit over the resolution of the game Killzone: Shadow Fall. The reason? It doesn't run at native 1080p in multiplayer mode, something the lawsuit claims Sony misled customers about. The pl...

The Great Unbundling has begun. Recode reports Facebook has begun to shut off access to chat within its main app. We've known about Facebook's plan to make everyone use Messenger by disabling chat within the main Faceboo...

Itching to squeeze in a last minute summer holiday? You may want to bring Yelp's updated iOS app with you as you traipse through the streets of Stockholm -- it now lets you translate foreign reviews on the fly with just ...

Believe it or not, when camping you can't just survive on toasted marshmallows and s'mores. You need vitamins and protein to keep you fuelled through canoe trips and hikes, but don't toss that pointy stick just yet. Gran...

If you don't know Paolo Nutini, I don't blame you. I just learned about this British singer when I saw this video of his song Iron Sky. It opens with a hard-to-watch 2-minute silent intro--and then the beautiful music hi...

A Hong Kong court has granted Albert Yeung Sau-shing's libel lawsuit against Google over an auto-complete search suggestion that includes the word "triad". Though automated, the court has found that Google is responsible...

With all the computing components AMD makes already, it's still hard to believe the company has yet to explore the solid-state drive space. But that's about to change soon -- it looks like AMD's finally ready to get into...

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This week Twitch continues to move toward a more standard setup for their hosted media, first porting to YouTube, now working with Audio Recognition. That's Audio Muting in a lot of cases, as Twitch is working with the g...

If you have been hearing about the new Play Music device deauthorization rules, it can be a bit sensational and frustrating. To clarify things, we spoke with a Google Play representative to find out what was going on. Tu...

Previously, we've seen researchers use everyday Wi-Fi signals like radar , able to detect shapes through a door or wall. Well, here's the logical next step toward the robot overthrow: Putting that tech on top of wheeled ...

Just when you thought Hoenn Hype couldn't get any more underground exciting, the team behind the film rights to Pokemon have granted a green light to a 2015 film. This film will include several Pokemon unique to the Poke...

Kanye West, purveyor of crazy/brilliant quips for us all, just came up with another chin-scratcher for you. If a drone falls on a baby, can it electrocute her? West set forth this Socrates-ish query in an assault lawsuit...

The living brain has always been a tricky thing to study. How do you figure out what's going on without poking, prodding, and jostling the brain so much that it's not working right? A relatively non-invasive new techniqu...

The world record holder for longest consecutive Pokemon gameplay might just be a fish. Grayson Hopper, a bright orange betta, has been "playing" the game for 135 hours and counting, with the event broadcast live on the i...

At one time, close-up sleight-of-hand magic relied on coins, cards, and currency, but since most tricks require an audience to pay close attention, it's hard to compete with distractions like Facebook and Twitter these d...

Robots are typically very complicated devices, full of parts that need a long assembly time and a myriad of hands working on them. A new concept may change that, as researchers at Harvard and MIT have been working on a r...

After a huge number of nominations , we have your five choices for Best Headphones. Even more compelling is that three of your five picks are the same as the contenders from Lifehacker's 2012 Hive Five , which really spe...

Earth's view from the International Space Station always makes for interesting imagery, and the latest to come from up there is no exception. Recently shared by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, the tellin...

What's wrong with learning to start a fire with sticks or drink your urine in an emergency? Stuff like that makes great TV, but piss poor survival advice that's misleading and potentially downright dangerous.