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Get control over all of your devices with Neyya, the Bluetooth enabled smart ring. This ring really does it all. With just a 60 second setup, Neyya can integrate with PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi so you can present lik...

Create your own energy to power your life with the PULSE Jump Rope by Uncharted Play. Inside this unique toy is a rechargeable lithium ion battery for emergencies. In addition to providing you with an all over workout, y...

The saga of startup lab Theranos continues to get increasingly complicated. The firm, known for its proprietary tests that only need a finger-prick's worth of blood for analysis, has recently faced accusations that its t...

While most of us will ring in the new year with family and friends, science doesn't take a holiday. And neither do the scientists responsible for big ongoing experiments. One of the more famous historical examples of thi...

In late November, BlackBerry announced it would be exiting Pakistan due to the nation's alleged desire to "monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic" within the country. BlackBerry's withdraw was scheduled to tak...

Thanks to the miracle of vaccines, we're close to wiping out the polio virus. But that very success brings its own set of fresh challenges. We need some safe form of the virus in order to keep manufacturing vaccines, but...

As you might guess, infosec memes aren't as straightforward as Pizza Rat or Left Shark. That's because most of the time they run on one part inside jokes and two parts hacker history. They're usually technical, and they ...

Carrier IQ came under scrutiny in 2011 as the public learned about its practices of capturing the user data on more than 140 million mobile devices. The company logged where and when people made calls or sent text messag...

What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope? With the 9th of 18 segments installed last week, we're that much closer to ...

Bats find their way around at night by emitting noise and listening to the way it bounces back to them. But since bats often congregate in large groups, how do they keep from losing their own signal in the din? A new stu...

King George III was quite the map collector, and his massive catalog of cartographic relics is being digitized by the British Library. In total, the collection encompasses over 50,000 maps, including the Klencke Atlas wh...

E Fun might not have the kind of sales volume as Apple does with their fair share of iPads in terms of tablets moved across the counter, but this does not mean that they are not going to roll out any kind of hardware and...

New Year's revelers will be heading out to all kinds of parties tonight, and chances are a good percentage will be tempted by the presence of a chocolate fountain--just a teensy bit of indulgence before those resolutions...

Recently, rumors have started to swirl regarding a new Xbox. No, I'm not talking about the standard generational leap that consoles go through. Instead, the rumors suggest a smaller, underpowered machine that competes di...

Sometimes facing each day can be a bit of a challenge. If it wasn’t for coffee and having to be at least somewhat responsible about keeping ourselves alive, we would likely live in our warm, squishy beds. If you think ...

The year 2015 will go down as many things, but normal isn't one of them. We saw record-smashing temperatures, exceptional droughts, deadly heat waves and massive wildfires. Add in earthquakes, landslides, and a brewing E...

A recently filed patent application suggests that Apple has bigger plans for its peer-to-peer mobile payment system than just iMessage. The company is apparently also looking at integrating it into other iOS services inc...

A Facebook bug is seriously overestimating some friendships today, with some users being congratulated on their 46 year anniversary. The social network has long celebrated the day on which users first friended each other...

Samsung is well known for rolling out a slew of consumer electronics devices over the years, and you can be darned sure that they are not going to stop anytime soon. In fact, with CES 2016 set to happen in just a few day...

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Wildly popular messaging service WhatsApp has suffered significant downtime today, throwing many New Year's Eve plans into disarray. The service, notorious for being acquired by Facebook for a hefty $19bn back in 2014, c...

Oculus Touch, the innovative controllers designed for use with the Oculus Rift VR headset, has been delayed until the second half of 2016. The final consumer version of the Rift is still expected to ship in the first qua...