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High speed photography techniques have the ability to capture some pretty incredible stuff. We've seen "compressed ultrafast photography" used to track light before and NASA is showing off new pictures of shockwaves take...

This week a number of complaints on the speed of users' iPhones have popped up on Apple's Support Communities for iOS 9. It's suggested that iOS 9 has slowed down or otherwise begun to lag devices older than the newest w...

For years Mike Rowe has been traveling across the country to meet people whose laborious, often thankless work keeps the world moving forward. And across different shows and different television networks, what has remain...

Increasing global temperatures are upsetting the bee population, and in more ways than one. A new report details how alpine bumblebees in Colorado are experiencing a shortening of the tongue due to a decrease in the numb...

iCloud bug affects users who are restoring backups to new devices.

Feeling sluggish? Doughy? Increasingly short-winded? Well, my flabby friend, it's time for you to stop putting off the inevitable and get back in shape. You're not trying to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980, but w...

"IT'S FOR GAMES" has been the oft-quoted cry of VR headset makers and gamers when talking about virtual reality, but the opportunity for movies is unquestionably huge. Today, Oculus VR released a Netflix app for the Gear...

Anyone who has ever gone fishing knows that you don't always catch what you're trying to catch. In industrial fishing, that problem is called "bycatch," and it can have grave consequences.

Joining the same ranks as Uber and Lyft, GrubHub and a couple other companies have been hit with lawsuits challenging worker status. It's the latest legal matter challenging the sharing economy and its habit of labeling ...

If you’ve ever cooked with cast iron, you know you have to be very careful with "cleaning" it. You don’t want to put soap on it, put it in the dishwasher, or scrub it with steel wool, as the whole idea is to have it ...

Data is a splendid thing. And Netflix being Netflix, the streaming service knows exactly what people are watching and when they stop watching. During a set period of time earlier this year, Netflix used that data to figu...

My graphic design students love to design posters using the classic eye chart composition, and they frequently ask "What typeface should I use for this?" Not having a definitive answer has always been frustrating, so I d...

When Samsung announced the newest edition of its mobile virtual reality headset Gear VR, created in partnership with Oculus, it was less about hardware innovation and more of a statement: VR is consumer-ready. Yes, the h...

A set of photos released by NASA today shows off a piece of landscape that looks like snakeskin, hundreds of miles long. "[This new landscape] looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology," said William McKinn...

As with wearables for children, wearables for the elderly are usually designed for monitoring purposes, allowing loved ones and caretakers to keep an eye on the person and, if necessary, send help their way. These type o...

As great as Sling TV is, the user interface isn't the best. One of the biggest problems is that it isn't easy to find the content you're looking for, but the company's well aware of this and has been working on a fix. To...

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Today we begin to see what it'll be like to be part of the Star Wars universe in virtual reality. While we saw the Facebook release of a 360-vision speeder journey through a shipyard on Jakku yesterday, today we're going...

A fresh batch of images straight from the New Horizons downlink give us just what we've been waiting for: color views of Pluto! Ridiculously high resolution detail! Strange new snakeskin textures! Plus a first look at ho...

Google's note taking and to-do list app, Keep, has been available on Android devices and the web for quite some time. Well over two years, in fact. Looking to offer the productivity software to the Apple faithful as well...

Yachts are for chumps. People who really know how to spend their money get submersible yachts from Migaloo, a mysterious company that offers five different models of underwater palaces. But true evil villains just go for...

What are the most comfortable, driest, supportive and tractive all-round hiking boots for general outdoor activities? We tested the latest, greatest, affordable boots out there to find out.