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Volkswagen will add CarPlay and Android Auto support to its cars later this year, the company has confirmed, with the arrival of a new second-gen "modular infotainment platform" in models like the Golf. The system will b...

Mercedes-Benz teased something big - figuratively and literally - for CES 2015, and the F 015 Luxury in Motion autonomous car ticks both boxes. Latest in the German marque's F line of prototypes and proofs-of-concept, th...

Last year Sony revealed their first SmartEyeglass prototype to a bit of a tepid crowd - this year they've been a bit mum about the project as it hits a second generation. The "SmartEyeglass Attach!" as its called works w...

If you're in a public place, don't expect your phone calls and texts to stay private. At least not if the FBI flies a Cessna over your head or drives a car around your neighborhood while you're out for a walk.

Dell has rolled out their Venue 8 7000 series tablet today, taking a bold step toward Android tablet prowess. Featuring a "series of firsts", the Dell Venue 8 7000 is based on the Intel Atom Z3500 processor, and checks i...

We have featured plenty of extreme airliner landings and insane maneuvers, but not a lot of crazy take offs. Some Redditor made a GIF from a video of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in almost-vertical-take-off, originally filmed...

Walking outside when it’s cold for an extended period of time is not fun. No matter how many layers you put on, the cold will eventually seep in. If it’s frigid to the point of being dangerous for your lungs, then yo...

In our increasingly connected world, having to pause and connect a USB cable or swap in an SD card to transfer files is a cumbersome, nearly archaic process. Wireless SD cards largely solve that problem, making it possib...

Help us revolutionize athletic training with the first comfortable, 24/7 wearable heart rate monitor. Ask the world's best athletes “What's the single most important biometric you monitor while training?” and they al...

Three new hard drives are on their way from Toshiba, each of them tailored towards a specific type of user. Those who have large storage demands will find the Canvio Basic suitable to their needs, with it offering a soli...

Sous Vide cooking is nothing new, but chefs and home cooks the world over are again discovering just how subtly amazing it really is. The long-form cooking process brings your food to perfection more reliably than more t...

Razer has introduced another wearable, the Nabu X. This is similar to the company's previous Nabu wrist band, and is bid as an entry-level device for those looking to nab a budget-friendly smart band. As with comparable ...

Dolby doesn't want to limit its Dolby Vision tech just to Netflix and other streaming services so the outfits' partnering with film studios too. First up is Warner Bros. where flicks including Edge of Tomorrow, The Lego ...

In that famous scene in the movie Christmas Story, a kid "triple dog dares" another kid in the schoolyard to put his tongue on a metal flag pole to see if it will stick. Lo and behold, it sticks. The bell rings and all t...

Volkswagen's wading into the connected car space in a few different ways including more autonomous driving. First up is Golf R Touch hatchback. It's sporting three displays on the dashboard, with two being touchscreens. ...

Twitter appears to be down, or at least 40 minutes behind or so. We'll update if we find out why but in the meantime feel free to park your cool tweets here instead? Or feel liberated from the constant pulls to refresh?

Did you recently grab a 360-degree camera like the Bublcam or Ricoh Theta? You'll have an easy way to show off your all-encompassing footage very shortly. A YouTube spokesperson has confirmed to both Engadget and Gizmodo...

Rather than pack in ever more pixels or flex its screens , Sony is rolling out a number of technical and design tweaks aimed to make their benchmark-setting UHD televisions even better this year--and that includes a bran...

Toyota has thrown open its fuel-cell patent portfolio, offering royalty-free access to almost 6,000 patents used its Mirai car, in the hope of driving adoption of the technology. "At Toyota, we believe that when good ide...

Cambridge Consultants is a research and development company from, yup, Cambridge in the UK, that acts as a sort of DARPA for the private sector. That's why you're just as likely to see the outfit producing sensors for th...

Overwhelmed. That's how I feel when I zoom into this new panorama of the Andromeda galaxy. Yesterday it was the mind-blowing new photo of the Pillars of Creation. Today is this view of Andromeda with over 100 million sta...

Because Earth's rotation is slowing ever so slightly, we occasionally need to add an extra second to re-sync our super-precise atomic clocks to our planet's rotation. But you know who's not on board with that? Those damn...