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Scooped, scalloped, creased, cut-up, and generally looking like it wants to chop you into little pieces, Bugatti's Vision Gran Turismo is enough to give you palpitations. While the astonishing hyper-car is intended for g...

TomTom has launched RoadDNA, a product aimed at bringing self-driving car tech to more potential developers. The system captures 3D roadside data from depth sensing cameras and compares it to a database of images, lettin...

The number of characters in the Star Wars universe is by no means small, but R2-D2 seems to have best captured the imagination of designers, and as a result we've seen the little droid reimagined as a variety of devices ...

The highways of California are about to get a wee bit more crowded, not with your run of the mill cars but with self-driving ones. California's Department of Motor Vehicles has just approved Honda's application for testi...

The GoPro line of action cameras, especially when paired with drones, have yielded a massive library of photos and videos that would have been otherwise impossible to take using commercial equipment. But when paired with...

Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster is known for not mincing words when it comes to trying to overthrow Google's iron hand over its own product. But now it seems that the startup's strategy for rivaling, if not ending, Google's m...

The Jeepers Creepers movie franchise is getting a third installment, it has been announced, with some of the original cast being slated to rejoin for the upcoming film. The movie will be called, most appropriately, Jeepe...

There are probably way too many ways to keep tabs your activity these days -- dedicated fitness trackers, smartwatches, and even your phone let you know how how healthy or lethargic you are. Motorola rolled its own fitne...

A new generation of meta-materials are emerging from a 17th century source.

Google's self-driving cars effort is ongoing, and as part of it, the Internet retailer has nabbed TrueCar's president John Krafcik; he will be CEO of Google's self-driving car division starting tomorrow, September 15. Kr...

When you mix molten aluminum with a watermelon, you get something truly awesome . So what about other melons? Here the Backyard Scientist tries pouring molten aluminum into honey dew and cantaloupes to see what happens. ...

Mozilla may be a non-profit organization, but that doesn't of course mean it's not interested in raising some cash on the sides. Even if the court of public opinion says otherwise. Months after it launched its contentiou...

Your alarm clock now becomes a stylish lamp if you bring home the Aura Connected Alarm Clock by Withings. The purpose of this alarm clock is to help you fall asleep faster and wake up with a refreshed mind every morning....

When we talk about Polaroids, most of us would have the image of an instant camera in our minds. After all, that was what we grew up with – an instant camera which is spat out after each press of the shutter button, wh...

In the Swedish county of Jämtland, two large craters mark the site of a rare event: a double meteorite impact. The larger crater of the pair, a few miles south of the city of Östersund, is about 4.7 miles wide. A few m...

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Yowza. Here's a crazy rigged contraption that uses microwave energy from cavity magnetron to generate plasma and burn the heck out of things faster than you can warm a Hot Pocket. We can see it squeeze out plasma in a li...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Universal Music Group in a 2007 Digital Millennium Copyright Act case that could change how and when copyright holders can send takedown notices. The case revolves aroun...

The start of the new TV season is upon us. But we no longer have to abide by the whims of network scheduling; these days we're the masters of our own television programming. What're you watching?

Several PlayStation 2 games have turned up on the PEGI ratings site as of this afternoon suggesting they're coming soon to PS4. Release on PlayStation 4 for these games will come almost certainly in the form of digital d...

DARPA has revealed a new kind of landing gear that allows helicopters to land on inclines and uneven terrain, a feat that's generally impossible using traditional landing skids. Rather than the fixed landing gear that mo...

Things seem pretty weird for YouTube's biggest star right now.