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Use soundwaves to levitate objects with this real working device. Create a levitation engine or maybe a new hoverboard technology. This project focuses on SOUND and more importantly, ultrasonic levitation. No, this isn�...

Can you remember the last time you logged into PlayStation Home? Neither can anybody in Japan, apparently. According to a statement released on the Japanese website, the 3D social space will permanently close in March of...

We saw the stunning crystal clear photo, so now here's a 4K time lapse of Orbital's Cygnus cargo ship burning up in a beautiful fiery streak as it re-enters our atmosphere. The footage was shot from the ISS by German ast...

What in the world is that supposed to mean? Cloud Gaming means we're playing a game that's hosted on a server halfway around the country. A team including the University of Michigan, Microsoft Research, and Siberian Fede...

Manta rays are just amazingly cool. This GoPro footage of a school of giant oceanic manta rays off the coast of Maui proves that in mesmerizing detail.

Microsoft has a dongle in the works, and it is poised to take on Google's Chromecast by the look of things. The Miracast dongle would allow Lumia users to broadcast their mobile's screen to an HDTV, the benefits for whic...

Water is heavy--ask anyone who screwed up the Ice Bucket Challenge . And California and the rest of the West Coast have precious little of it . The water is so depleted, it's not weighing down the earth's surface--and ge...

From Foxtrot Alpha: A Proton-M rocket carrying a GLONASS satellite exploded just after leaving the launch pad last summer, and it was chock full of rocket fuel. The shock-wave from the blast is made incredibly clear some...

HTC hinted that it would get back into tablets this year, and there have been detailed rumors covering the effort. However, tangible evidence of that hardware has been hard to come by -- until now, that is. The Wi-Fi All...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is not done scrutinizing Airbnb's and its hosts' business practices just yet. He's now asked the company to hand over full, unredacted personal information on 124 hosts in the ...

It's hardly uncommon for smartphone batteries to lose some of their oomph over time, but Apple just might be able to help if your iPhone 5's battery has been flakier than usual. The folks in Cupertino have figured out th...

One of the biggest challenges behind Google's modular Project Ara phone platform has been getting processors to play nicely with the technology. How do you let someone swap out the very heart of their device as easily as...

Y'all must've been good little smartphone users, because Appaclaus brought a giant bag of new Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps for you this week. Why is there an app-focused Santa, and why does he visit randomly in t...

Just about everyone works on a computer these days at the office, and if you were to take a look at any cafe out there in the streets, you would also notice that many people use a tablet or a notebook to get some stuff d...

It may be mid-August, the time of year when there's usually nothing to talk about. But this past week bucked that trend in a big way. Here's the best stuff we wrote this week, including a deep look at Twitter trolls, a p...

I am quite sure that many of us do happen to carry at least a couple of mobile devices with us wherever we go each day – the smartphone would surely be one of them, while the other would be the tablet for some, and fre...

Welcome to the rebirth of the semi-modern age of castle defense. This game was originally born in the year 2001, and here in 2014, it's been reborn anew, baptized into the mobile universe by NVIDIA's TegraZone team for t...

This morning, the closely watched Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland officially went from rumbling to erupting under the ice. The Icelandic Met Office has already issued a red alert for planes, but it's unlikely to turn in...

I’m about to make some updates to a tablet report I publish through my firm Creative Strategies. Usually, this type of report is reserved for our clients only, or to purchase a-la-carte for $499. I decided to give Tech...

FXX network's gargantuan marathon of every Simpsons episode ever made the internet swoon. That sweet Simpsons nectar has turned a little sour, though: Some of the greatest sight gags from the show's golden era are being ...

When I reviewed the original ZTE Open last year, the Firefox OS experience was -- to put it modestly -- rough around the edges. The device was stripped down even by the standards of low-end phones, while the software was...

Looks like Twitter's plan for an in-tweet "Buy" button is moving forward: Re/code says mobile payment company Stripe is signing up businesses interested in Twitter sales. [Re/code]