Gadget News

Today we've gotten our hands on the TomTom Spark, a new sports watch aimed at runners, primarily. This device works with a preloaded set of songs on a list called Running Trax, including 30-minutes of upbeat tunes curate...

The folks at Marshall Headphones reveal a device they call the "biggest little speaker" in its class. This device looks like an amplifier - much like the last several independent speakers the brand has made - but it's a ...

Samsung is off to a great start with the Gear S2 smartwatch, with its great UX and broad Android compatibility, but its challenge is only just beginning. The circular-screen wearable is prompting broadly positive first-i...

I confess, I was a little suspicious when Samsung invited me to take a nap at its IFA booth. Turns out though, it wasn't a strange casting couch experience they had in mind, but a quick test of the new Samsung SLEEPsense...

Calculus: A word that triggers involuntary fear spams in the best of us. But the days of slogging through tedious textbook derivatives are over, if you want them to be. For the past few years, people across the world hav...

When 60,000 critically endangered saiga antelope dropped dead in central Kazakhstan in June, it had to have been a major bummer for the veterinarians who had just arrived to study the herd. Those wildlife vets have since...

Skype has introduced version 6.0 for both Android and iOS, and both updates are big -- the apps have been overhauled, with the starting point of that overhaul being redesigns. Skype says the newest version is both more i...

Back to school. Those three words can strike fear in even the hardiest of kids. We're celebrating the beginning of the semester a little differently, because, well, that's what we do on Playdate. Rather than spend the af...

Ricoh has unveiled its newest Theta camera, the Theta S. This camera is styled similarly to the maker's other Theta cameras, and is able to record 360-degree content. The camera maker introduced the new model at IFA 2015...

Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) are voracious coral consumers with a propensity for population explosions, which makes them very real threats to the world's coral reefs. And while they're typically held in check by fish ...

It's a common misconception that the best blogs in the world are the Gawker Media blogs and PerezHilton.com/nicki-minaj. But that's just plain wrong. It's hard to believe, but there's actually a better blog out there.......

After months--if not years--of bellyaching over slow speeds and shaky stability , Google finally announced an array of improvements to Chrome that could improve the lives of millions. The company says the browser will no...

Almost a year ago, Apple put a Retina display inside its 27-inch desktop. A report from 9to5Mac says we could see a high-res panel on the smaller 21.5-inch model soon as well. The word comes from Mark Gurman, who has a s...

Netflix recently released its long-anticipated Narcos original series, which follows the exploits of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and the related Medellin Cartel. The first season consists of 10 episodes, and has apparentl...

If you’ve ever played a survival game, you know that it’s mandatory to have access to fire. Gather up the necessary pieces and boom, you have heat and light in-game in no time at all. In a real life situation, it’s...

Samsung is making a habit of teasing its next announcement at the end of launch events. After today's Gear S2 official reveal, the company teased a new tablet: the Galaxy View. Of course, details are quite scarce right n...

Hulu's new "No Commercials" option might not be as "ad-free" as you may have originally suspected. While the option - revealed by the company earlier this week - is suggested to be made for those users that'd been wishin...

Megan Kelly, a 24-year-old project manager for a marketing company in Pittsburgh, is not former attorney and current Fox News personality Megyn Kelly. But unfortunately for Megan-with-an-"a", the furious pro-Trump suppor...

Roboticists at QUT develop a robot aimed at destroying invasive starfish, thereby saving the life of the Great Barrier Reef. First trials of this robot in the sea have been completed in Queensland's Moreton Bay. More tri...

Bang & Olufsen's Play series of more affordable, playful speakers has gained a new behemoth, in the shape of the fortune cookie-like BeoPlay A6. The unusually shaped speaker joins its smaller brethren in packing wireless...

Waze, the navigation app that Google bought and cops hate, is facing a lawsuit for allegedly copying a proprietary navigation database. The lawsuit is being brought by San Francisco law firm Kronenberger Rosenfeld, LLP, ...

Google and its mapping service Waze are being dragged to court over allegations that Waze stole data from a rival's map database. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday by PhantomAlert alleges that t...