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Google initiates an unlocked/broken lock icon system in Gmail in honor of Safer Internet Day, showing whether or not emails are encrypted or not. Gmail email has been encrypted for some time. Not all other email services...

There are down sides to success. Australia's national science industry has announced that, as far as they're concerned, there is no longer any doubt that climate change exists--so they will no longer be funding research ...

If you didn't participate in The Division's recent closed beta, don't worry -- you're going to have another chance to play the game soon. Ubisoft has announced open beta dates for its new Tom Clancy title, which will be ...

In-game photo modes are cool and all, but beyond sharing your Driveclub or Arkham Knight snaps via social media, there isn't much you can do with them. Well, in the PC version of Firewatch (out this week, and on PlayStat...

No matter how fast you get at solving the Rubik's Cube, you'll never be robot-fast. The race has been on to build a robot that outperforms other robots, solving the colorful cubed puzzle at record-breaking speeds. It was...

Tests at a fusion reactor in China have hit a major milestone. The experiments have created plasma with a temperature of 90 million °F--hotter than the core of our Sun--and sustained the state for over a minute and a ha...

Researchers from 21st Century Medicine have developed a new technique to allow long term storage of a near-perfect mammalian brain. It's a breakthrough that could have serious implications for cryonics, and the futuristi...

Yet another annual promotion from Google, marking Safer Internet Day 2016.

Capture incredible footage of all of your snow activities with the HD Video Camera Goggles by Zeal Optics. These goggles do away more than just protect your eyes from the sun and snow. They also record a first hand accou...

Command your world wit ha flick of the wrist with Gestor, the air mouse and scroller. Resembling a high tech magic wand, this unique mouse is completely handheld and performs tricks, er, actions, in the air with your ges...

Slowly and bit by bit, Facebook is losing legal ground in Europe over what many member states are now calling illegal practices that violate the privacy of users and non-users alike. The case it faces in France, however,...

Now you can watch as well as listen as world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking expounds upon his latest ideas about the knotty black hole information paradox, playfully illustrated by chalkboard artist Andrew Park.

3D printed sonic ceramics. Credit: Studio van Broekhoven. Forget the traditional potter's wheel. The unique textures of these clay sculptures capture the vibrations of actual sound waves, thanks to a novel form of 3D pri...

Are you one of the early adopters who gave StreamNation a shot? If you did, you'll want to sit up and take notice. The company is shutting down its namesake personal-media-in-the-cloud service (along with Shutter) on Mar...

This week the folks at Nissan have revealed three new vehicles - concepts the lot of them. Each of them is ready to roll with winter weather preparedness - extreme winter weather preparedness, with full snow track system...

Crazy news from the outback, folks. Certain birds of prey are picking up burning sticks from brush fires and dropping them in dry grass. Why? Because then all the little critters will run away from the fire and out into ...

Since 1954, Kyoto University has been managing a population of fruit flies, living in total darkness. Now, after interbreeding some of these "dark flies" with regular flies, the researchers are learning more about the ge...

Get enough dots together and your faulty eyeballs start seeing things. With random dot patterns, a simple move of the dots by a few degrees can create trippy concentric circles or wild swirls that move all around the pap...

While Twitter is firmly behind keeping things in chronological order, Vine announced that users could reorder the videos of their favorite accounts from newest to oldest, oldest to newest and most importantly by the acco...

Like most tween crushes, the attraction was instant and overwhelming. I remember the first time I set eyes on the Atari Lynx as if it were yesterday. It was perched on a shelf, center stage, behind a huge pane of glass -...

Want to get into espresso without breaking the bank? This refurbished Cuisinart can make a single or double shot with 15 bars of pressure for just $75. Sure, there are better espresso makers out there, but you'd be hard ...

We've known for quite some time that Flash's days are numbered. When Apple first announced that they wouldn't support it on their crazy new phone back in 2007, people went crazy. But they were onto something, and the res...