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Office meetings suck, and it's inevitable that you'll have to suffer through more of them than you'd like in your lifetime. But you'll survive, as long as you simply show up, try not to fall asleep, and try to follow the...

It didn't take long for Magnetic smartphone vent mounts to join our bestsellers club , and it's easy to see why. They're essentially invisible when your phone is attached, and there's just something cool about slapping y...

In the next ten years, Earth's population is expected to increase by one billion, and only 3% of our planet's water is fit for drinking or farming. Most of that relatively small amount is trapped in frozen glaciers. But ...

Microsoft isn't one to be modest about the success of its Windows 10 rollout. In its latest tally, more than 110 million devices have been upgraded since the OS launched in June, eclipsing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in ma...

Scientists in Japan say they've fashioned glass that's almost as strong as steel.

Well, that didn't take long. Back in April, we learned that the Seattle Police Department had hired hacker and transparency activist Tim Clemans to help move the department into the future. Clemans is already out followi...

In a report on Wednesday, NASA stated that the amino acids found in lunar samples from the Apolla era are likely the result of contamination from Earth, though there are a couple other possibilities. The space agency cam...

Go ahead and shut it down, because I don't know if we'll ever see a better Lightning cable deal. Monoprice is selling 3' cables for $2, and 6' cables for $3 right now, with $2 flat rate shipping for your entire order, no...

Facebook announced Friday that it is modifying the terms of its oft-criticised "real name" policy which demands users go by their "authentic name" when on the social network rather than a pseudonym. The trans and Native ...

Well, the chat may not be terrifying, but the game certainly will be. Today on Playdate, we're diving into two horrifying, Halloween-worthy games, SOMA and PT. SOMA is the creepy underwater game from Amnesia: The Dark De...

Why bother with fiction when you can be horrified by everyday life? We've found a paper about how to locate bodies in "clandestine graves" by analyzing the gas emissions they give off.

Mirror's Edge Catalyst has been delayed until May 2016, project Senior Producer Sara Jansson has announced. In a statement made Thursday, Jansson said the ambitious plans they have means a lot of work, and, unfortunately...

The video spot you're about to see takes on Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Christmas morning. Therein you'll find the fight for the Republic, as executed by a couple of youngling Jedi wielding some fabulous battery-lade...

Just about anywhere you live in the US, you will see people standing on the side of the road holding cardboard signs hoping that someone will help them out with food, money, or a job. Anywhere you live in the country you...

Hollywood people often say that it's a miracle there are any good movies at all. Because so much can go wrong, and so many random things have to go right, for a movie to avoid being a hopeless disaster. I can believe thi...

The SEC is making it legal for anyone to invest in companies through crowdfunding-but that does not mean you're safe from scams.

Amazon's making it even easier for you to spend your money outside of its own site. Re/code reports that the online retailer is expanding Pay with Amazon, which lets customers use their saved payment info for third-party...

The State Department just released over 7,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails. In one exchange with her senior advisor Phillipe Reines, the presidential hopeful has a very important question: "on this new berry can I get smi...

When you're not hanging out in Hangouts, Google wants to make it easier to find friends for hanging out in real life via its new "Who's Down" mobile app. The app, which has been dropped in the Google Play Store, is curre...

The same research and technological innovations that a team from MIT, Harvard, and Columbia University used to create a pitch-perfect xylophone with bars shaped like animals could one day help make your electronics quiet...

Ben works on Halloween inspired projects on this week's episode of The Ben Heck Show while Felix fights off the Ghost of Unfinished Projects Past. First, Ben tells the story of Mothman while he builds spooky blinking eye...

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