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If your social feeds are anything like mine, they're full of folks squeeing with delight over their new BB-8 droid today. The folks at uBreakiFix got one too, but instead of playing with Star Wars: The Force Awakens' cha...

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for taking leisurely strolls, but leisurely subway riding? The concept is as foreign as ketchup on pizza. That's why most city slickers will have no idea that the longest non-repeating su...

You can debate specs, argue square versus circle until you're blue in the face, but the big Gear S2 vs Apple Watch argument is which is more fidget-friendly. Samsung's new Tizen-powered smartwatch, launched at IFA 2015 l...

Android Wear watches are cool and all, but none of them are especially fancy. (Even the new Moto 360 , with its flat tire screen.) Until now, at least. An alligator leather wristband, 23-karat gold plating, and a $1000-p...

In April of 2014 Martin "Marty" O'Donnell, then Bungie's audio director, was fired from the company "without cause." A court ruling issued last week in a case between the composer and his former employer sheds light on t...

Samsung has announced the first (consumer ready) Ultra HD Blu-ray player, alongside word that movie studio Fox is already getting its releases ready for the new format. That means 4K movies, yes, but also compatibility f...

Uber has fixed a gaping privacy hole which left ride details for some passengers visible in Google searches, with full address information available even months after the journey. The glitch was a side-effect of Uber's "...

JBL has unveiled the new Pulse 2 portable Bluetooth speaker. The device is more than just a wireless speaker making it easy for you to enjoy your tunes on the go, it's also a lightshow. Pulse 2 delivers synchronized flas...

The Philips AmbiLux UHD grabs your eyeballs by the...er...balls and puts them through some sort of kaleidoscopic interdimensional warp hole.

Dragon Con is in full swing in Atlanta, and hordes of cosplayers are strutting their stuff. From popular culture favourites to original creations, here's what we found while shuffling along crowded lobbies and dodging tr...

Hey guys, remember paracord bracelets? Those were cool for a hot second, right? I mean, strapping 20 feet of intricately woven, high-tensile rope to your wrist "just in case" seemed like such a good idea at the time. The...

A few days back we mentioned that the first production run of Tesla Model X SUV orders had begun. For the initial run the only version available was the high-end Signature Series with a few other options that could be ad...

Flat widescreen monitors? Glowing keyboards and mice? Controllers with analog thumbsticks? The late '90s PC gamer needed not such things.

It's coming, it's coming! The New Horizons space probe starts its intensive data downlink phase today! You know what that means? New, never-seen photos of the dwarf planet are coming right at us! Squee!!

If you were lucky enough to find one of Sphero's wonderful BB-8 toys on Force Friday and are curious how it works, the folks at uBreakiFix were kind enough to hack theirs open to explore its inner workings--so you don't ...

Beneath the swelling blue surf, ocean life is on the move. Marine species are swimming into new new communities and forcing others out. By the end of the century, the ecosystems that cover 70% of our planet's surface wil...

Wearables playing a big role at major trade shows isn't a surprise, and neither is the fact that most of the ones we've seen at IFA 2015 are smartwatches. Samsung, Motorola and TomTom all introduced new timepieces this w...

The four year evacuation of the Japanese town of Naraha has officially ended. All of the town's 7,400 residents were sent away in 2011, after the nearby nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Today, the government says radiation...

Last year, Peoria resident Jon Daniel, 29, started a Twitter account satirizing (loosely) his city's mayor, Jim Ardis, portraying the mayor as a hard-partying strip club patron. Ardis did not take kindly to this caricatu...

Chevrolet promised to oversee the restoration of a handful of Corvettes that fell into a sinkhole last year that opened under the National Corvette Museum. The first of those restorations is now complete and the car is t...

You've got to hand it to Huawei. Just a week out from Apple's iPhone 6S launch , it's revealed the Mate S, which has almost certainly stolen a bit of the Apple phone's thunder by including its iOS rival's expected lead f...