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Just days after Snapchat added a face-swapping lens, Facebook has made a similar announcement: it has acquired Masquerade, a popular face-swapping and live filter app that goes by 'MSQRD' in the App Store and Google Play...

Yeesh, this is a scary, weird year to be living on planet Earth. And we haven't gotten those danged off-world colonies set up yet, for some reason. There's no escape! Except, as Emily Dickinson would advise, to say "frig...

Don't be too quick to thank El Niño for the last wave of storms that blessed the West Coast with swamped reservoirs, replenished snowpack, and spectacular flaming palm trees . Turns out that El Niño had a little help--...

GE researchers have developed a new technology that uses CO2 to generate a substantial amount of clean energy, and it doubles as an energy storage solution for solar panels. CO2, of course, is one big cause of climate ch...

The face-swapping filter on Snapchat is getting plenty of use as of late, and Facebook is joining the fray as well. Zuckerberg & Co. bought the popular app Masquerade (MSQRD) that offers a similar feature. Masquerade's C...

It would appear that Mark Zuckerberg's word on social networking in virtual reality are coming to fruition sooner than expected. Oculus and Samsung have announced that anyone with a Samsung Gear VR (powered by Oculus) wi...

2K has revealed a launch date for the first XCOM 2 downloadable content: March 17th. Titled Anarchy's Children, the add-on pack will come with more than 100 "exotic" goodies, which you can use to deck out your soldiers. ...

I love time capsules. But I just had the strangest realization. When teachers have their students contribute items to time capsules, it's kind of like stealing.

Researchers from the Dutch Wageningen University and Research Center announced on Tuesday that they had successfully cultivated 10 food crops in soil that simulates what astronauts would encounter both on the Moon and on...

Google just combined music with its penchant for adorable animations. The result is called Chrome Music Labs, and it's a tool to help kids learn about music and sound. But even if you're not a youngster oblivious to the ...

The first time I went anywhere near the RSA information security conference in San Francisco, it was by way of a prank. Two things I love to cover are computer crime and and enterprise security, so when I met friends for...

Simplehuman dominated the nominations in our recent kitchen trash cans Kinja Co-Op, and Amazon's running rare discounts on several different models today, plus a handful of soap dispensers and kitchen accessories to matc...

Windows 10 already does a lot to spare you from typing in your password, but Microsoft wants to take that text-free login one step further. The company has quietly posted a beta Phone Sign-in app for Windows 10 Mobile th...

The film Open Season: Scared Silly will be coming soon - how well do you know its director? Did you know that he was also responsible for the cult classic cartoon Cow and Chicken - and (of course) I AM Weasel as well? Ba...

It'll soon be a lot easier for you to browse through Google Docs files on Android phones and tablets. With the latest version of Docs on Android, you'll now see a small overlay when scrolling through documents. Tapping o...

We spent more than 20 hours researching 160 USB battery packs, brought in almost 50 pounds of batteries, and tested them in a specialist lab in Vancouver, British Columbia, all to find the best USB battery pack for any s...

On a cold day, nothing hits the spot like a big steaming bowl of salty, fatty, delicious ramen. We can't promise it will fill you up in dessert form, but watching SweetAmbs work is satisfying enough.

Riot Games, the studio in charge of League of Legends, acquired Radiant Entertainment and all of its fighting game technology this week. Radiant is staffed by popular figures in the fighting game community, including for...

Sometimes the person you love is perfect except for one little, tiny, unavoidable, totally obnoxious thing.

The idea of growing your own produce and being self-sufficient is a wonderful one, but unless you live outside of a city and have a yard, that’s not happening. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t grow at least o...

Back at CES this year, Razer made a surprise announcement. Sure, the Core external GPU solution and the Stargazer webcam, I was shown something that had little to do with gaming at all. I'm talking, of course, about the ...

Google's newest software, Android N, has been released this morning, and with it comes a batch of new abilities for smartphones, tablets, and Android TV. We've combed through the developer bits and pieces to find the mos...