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The words "some assembly required" often strike fear into parents when they've bought their kid a new toy, but that's half the fun with Phil Conigliaro's new book called Colossal Paper Machines. The 128 pages of the mass...

How much trust can you squeeze into a microSD card? If you're Google ATAP, the search giant's outlandish research arm, it turns out the answer is "a huge amount." Today at I/O the ATAP team revealed Project Vault, a full...

The Raintrain Traveling Sprinkler will traverse your lawn based on the pattern you lay out for it. The hose will allow you to cover it from ground and keeps your greenery well hydrated as and when required. There are 3 s...

Google's virtual reality ecosystem is now prepared to handle the public, with everything from low-cost VR headsets to YouTube 360. What we've got here is a full ecosystem, with the three main components ready to roll. Th...

Wearables may bring your digital life to your wrist but that doesn't make it any easier to interact with, a problem Google believes it may have solved. Handiwork of the Google ATAP team, the internal skunkworks cooking u...

The holes in Swiss cheese lend it a very distinctive appearance. But new analysis reveals that they're not a result of gas produced bacteria in the cheese, or cheeky nibbling by mice--but something else entirely.

You know what happens in a real earthquake? A pause. And then slight confusion. And then frantically trying to remember what elementary school taught you on where you should go. And then panic because you don't remember....

When it comes to having a good pair of earphones, you would first need to sit down and consider just which particular situation are you going to listen to your music or audio book in – is it while you are relaxing in t...

In the world of online dating, nothing is as it seems. But that doesn't stop many of us from leaping to the wrong conclusions about people. A recent paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communica...

This shower smartphone holder lets you use ANY smartphone in the shower, pool, hot-tub, beach or wherever it needs to stay dry. Yes!!! With ShowerCase now you can use your Smartphone in the shower, bathtub, pool, hot tub...

MIT's scientists spent years making the Cheetah robot a more efficient runner. Now that's done, its creators probably thought it was time to give it a major upgrade: the metal quadruped can now autonomously jump over hur...

I have taken 1235 photos and videos with my phone since May 28th, 2014, most of which I will never look at. Even if there are good photos, I'll probably miss them. It's just too much shit to crunch with my puny human bra...

There's a new branch on the human family tree. Anthropologists say they've found a new human ancestor, who lived 3.5 million years ago, right beside Australopithecus afarensis on the plains of what is now Ethiopia.

Uber is many things: controversial, successful, and usually undeterred. It's also wealthy, and what better way to demonstrate that wealth than a big glassy campus in tech-heavy San Francisco? The ridesharing service has ...

This was not a toy. This was supposed to be a medical device to cure all female complaints.

Amazon's Echo home assistant has quietly added another talent to its PA abilities, with a new update integrating Google Calendar with the cylindrical speaker. The firmware upgrade, which will be automatically pushed out ...

Woohoo! Google I/O is just the best. We just got a view of Google's plans for the your future. Here's all the most interesting stuff you might have missed.

Windows 10 won't have Media Center included but this week Microsoft revealed that it will have support for surround sound in some new ways, and it could make Netflix streaming even better. Beyond supporting Dolby Digital...

The most futuristic projects at Google come out of their advanced technologies and projects group, or ATAP. And today at Google I/O, the ATAP team unveiled their vision of tomorrow, where your body, behavior and clothing...

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Project Ara may not have had the staring role at I/O today, but that didn't stop Google's modular phone from making history in its scant moments on-stage. The Google ATAP session was dominated by Projects Soli and Jacqua...

Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the Silk Road online black market for drugs and other illicit goods, has been sentenced to life in prison. The news comes after a long legal battle spanning many months, one that included su...