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Taser, the company that's sold electroshock weapons to some 18,000 law enforcement organizations all over the world for years, has made its smallest weapon ever. And it's not for cops--it's for regular people like you an...

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new type of brain sensor that is tiny, wireless, and dissolves after a certain amount of time, eliminating the need for removal surgery. These sensors...

Doing the simple and mundane things we do every morning here on Earth takes on a completely new challenge in space. The challenge in microgravity is that things just don't work the same way they do here on Earth in norma...

Last week, astronauts Tim Peake and Tim Kopra scrambled around the outside of the International Space Station to replace a failed voltage regulator. The hard work didn't prevent Peake from taking a selfie, though.

Smartphone makers are obsessed with making their gear thinner, and Norwegian startup Elliptic Labs has come up with a pretty good way to help. Their answer: get rid of the proximity sensors in our phones (and the requisi...

You'd think, with the number of times cloud services are hacked and online retailers' data stolen, that we'd be more proactive with passwords. You'd be wrong. Once again, the research suggests that when it comes to being...

Everyone loves a story that races forward. There's a reason we love books that are "page-turners." But does a fast-paced story full of thrills and excitement mean you can't also make room for character? Hell no. Here are...

You might remember hearing about the global warming "hiatus" a few years back--a pause in Earth's inexorably rising temperature, which some used as evidence that climate change is a hoax. But scientists are now completel...

Verizon has introduced a new sponsored data program called FreeBee Data. Under this, companies are able to sponsor subscriber mobile data under one of four different categories, including things like covering the data us...

Here's a neat video showing ink being injected into the "yolk sac artery of 72 hour-old chick embryo to visualize the beating heart and the vasculature." It's from Nikon's Small World in Motion competition which is alway...

Apple's EEO-1 Federal Employer Information Report for 2015 was released quietly this past weekend, and in it we see a different snapshot of the company's workforce diversity than the one last presented by Apple. Yes, the...

It's the golden rule of crowded escalators: Stand on one side, walk on the other. But passengers taking the escalator in one of London's busiest tube stations were recently confronted with a weird rule: Everyone must sta...

Amazon has taken the wraps off its first round of available devices covered under the Amazon Dash Replenishment service, and they're comprised of printers, a blood glucose monitor, and a GE washer. Under the service, the...

Behold the GalacTac Project, an armor prototype being designed by AR5000 that happens to look just a tad like everyone's favorite Star Wars bounty hunter. But look fast.

In a court case that seems to have been going on since the dawn of time, Apple and Samsung remain at legal war with one another. As a result of that case - the same one we've been talking about for several years - Apple ...

The vast majority of external hard drives utilize 5400RPM platters, and while that might be fine for backing up your files, it's not ideal for tasks like photo editing, running applications, and expanding your game conso...

Given the shifting ice can suddenly close a massive crevasse that runs hundreds of feet deep into a glacier, safely exploring them is all but impossible. Unless you've got access to a flying drone that isn't sent flying ...

Few headliners, lots of memory handling improvements.

This week the folks at HP have revealed the HP Sprout Pro, a new version of the first HP Sprout revealed last year. This new version rolls with a 6th-generation Intel Core i7 processor inside (the newest and most top-cla...

While ladies may have more options for makeup and the ability to wear just about whatever they'd like, guys get the short end of the stick in that department. Women can easily dress in men's clothes or go without makeup,...

In what very well may be record timing, Microsoft's developer conference BUILD 2016 has sold out. No more tickets are available. If you want a ticket to Build 2016, you're going to be out of luck. Without some immense lu...

Thousands of famous and semi-famous people make money by posting photos of themselves with certain products on Instagram. Some people seem to make all their money this way--Lindsay Lohan , for example. Meanwhile, million...