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Forget the latest all-electric sports car, and don't bother with jet skis anymore, the coolest new ride is one that combines the two. Like the Quadrofoil, a Slovenian-made two-person electric watercraft that runs on leg-...

If you're ever made a gadget purchase at Best Buy, you've likely heard of the Geek Squad: the retailer's in-house fleet of tech support and repair specialists. Well, helping with your hard drive issues isn't all they do....

When you think of fast rides, bicycles usually don't spring to mind, at least not before souped-up race cars and sleek motorcycles. Watching Francois Gissy speed over 207 miles per hour on a bicycle with a rocket strappe...

One of the frequently-cited problems with electric cars is a lack of places to charge up when you're away from home. Rather than create an entire standalone network, BMW is looking to combine charging docks with another ...

So much for Google's Nexus phones being the first to get Android 5.0 Lollipop. LG has announced that it's rolling out the sweetened software upgrade to G3 users in Poland this week, ahead of seemingly every other smartph...

There is a reason for doctor-patient confidentiality. Our health is a private matter, which is why the news that Aids.gov and another major government website directing people to AIDS-related treatments have left user da...

There's no denying that the wearable craze is upon us, whether we like it or not. MC10 is quite familiar with employing sensors to deliver info on training and athlete performance, and it's looking to do even more. If yo...

When Healthcare.gov launched last year, it was a big old mess . But the health insurance marketplace website has steadily improved, and the next version should actually be easy to use . The next round of sign-ups begins ...

If you watched Interstellar and didn't fully understand its time dilation and loops complexities, the following timeline--made by Reddit user sto-ifics42-- explains it all clearly. Warning: Don't continue if you haven't ...

Just because you can do something, should you? Samsung thinks so. Its second experimentally screened phone taps into its hardware R&D and production clout to offer something not many other companies can make, let alone b...

Thirty seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but it can be the window between life and death when an earthquake hits. That's why Early Warning Labs is teaming up with the U.S. government on an early warning app that'll ...

When it comes to 3D technology, one of the first things that come to mind would be the kind of movies that we see on the silver screen, where you wear a special pair of glasses, and then will be able to see images jump s...

Paris' Eiffel Tower is part of the public domain, and as such your day-time photos are a-ok. But night-time photos are different story. The building is illuminated at night with various light shows, and those are ruled a...

The U.S. government's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has granted $11 million to Rice University for their continued work on a project that is essentially an auto-complete tool for programmers. Describe...

New York City takes a big step to save lives on the streets, but not everyone wants to slow down. And Twitter's proposing a way to keep its employees separated from the regular people of San Francisco, at least while the...

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. In recent months Ebola has ravaged West Africa, and there are currently more t...

It's no doubt by now that we are living in the age of wearables. While most offer a combination of features such as telling time, ways to interact with messages, and number of health tracking options, Everkey hopes to us...

It's been exactly 25 years since the wall came down and Berlin--a city that was once the epicenter of a worldwide ideological struggle--took its first, daunting steps toward reunification. Despite all odds, the graft too...

Best Buy and Target have kicked off some impressive pre-Black Friday video game promotions today, and Kohl's has an insane stackable coupon deal on the Xbox One if you're in the market for a new console.

Last week, a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Europol, carried out a widespread digital sting, arresting the alleged operator of the deep web black market Silk Road 2.0 and seizi...

They may be one of the most disgusting insects you've ever seen, and laying eyes on one in your kitchen probably makes you want to scream, but one day cyborg cockroaches could save your life if you're trapped in a disast...

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