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At the beginning of the year, Samsung showed off a few of its employees' experimental products at CES 2016 under the company's Creative Lab, or C-Lab, program. That included a smart belt, a smart wristband, and a virtual...

This week the folks at research firm IHS have suggested that, after all components are put together and counted up, the Galaxy S7 costs about $255 to make. They suggest that Samsung is creating a device, therefore, that ...

Although primarily aimed at film, music, and interactive media, SxSW has also become a prime opportunity for some companies to show off products and ideas that lie at the intersection of technology and the arts. Sony has...

The idea of a manned mission to Mars got in the public consciousness in a big way over the last few years thanks in large part to Andy Weir's novel The Martian and its excellent big-screen adaptation. I'll admit that I h...

Donald Trump is in the sights of hacktivist collective Anonymous again. On March 4 the group, posted a video declaring "total war" on the presidential candidate. It hopes to not only bring down many of Trump's sites, but...

This new app is musical wizardry: Hum into your phone, and the humming is instantly transformed into a digital song, complete with onscreen sheet music.

With increasingly more capable CPUs and GPUs, the bottlenecks of computing have lately been relocated to memory, both in RAM to some extent but especially in persistent data storage. The race is on among chip makers to p...

Sleep? Who needs that when you can watch one of the coolest Martian science missions of the decade blast off for the Red Planet? That's happening very early tomorrow morning--and if you're up at odd hours, you won't want...

Over the weekend, people noticed that Microsoft's Windows 10 Store FAQ had been updated, and claimed Bitcoin is no longer a supported payment method. Now, the company tells Softpedia that this update was "inaccurate info...

Mathematicians have discovered a surprising pattern in the expression of prime numbers, revealing a previously unknown "bias" to researchers.

After more than twelve hours of nail-biting anticipation, the European Space Agency's ExoMars probe has finally phoned home, confirming that this morning's launch was a complete success. The mission is now safely on its ...

It's no secret that living in a dense city--with cars pumping out endless amounts of pollution --isn't going to do wonders for your lungs. But one London tech company wants to know exactly how carcinogenic that air is, a...

There's no shortage of 360-degree cameras to add a dash of virtual reality to your adventure videos. However, livestreaming that portable VR hasn't been realistic for most people... at least, not until today. 360fly has ...

In light of Apple's ongoing legal battle with the FBI, other tech companies are looking to boost their own encryption, according to sources. Among them is WhatsApp, which is said to be prepping an encrypted voice calls r...

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The ideal virtual reality headset doesn't need anything else to work its magic: no wires, no tracking sensors, no smartphones. That's been largely elusive, but Sulon Technologies thinks it's on the cusp of making this wo...

The "missing link" between the smallest T-Rex ancestors and the larger Tyrannosaurs was discovered in the Kyzylkum Desert in Uzbekistan more than a decade ago. Researchers recently studied the fossils and have published ...

Bad news if you were hoping to take AT&T to task for throttling your unlimited mobile data: you probably won't get much help beyond government regulators. A Northern California District Court judge has ruled that the car...

When you decide to write a story set in the near future, or speculating about things that might happen, you're running the risk of looking like a jackass. Nobody expects a science fiction story to predict the actual futu...

John Kasich held a town hall meeting in Mansfield, Ohio this weekend where he told a crowd the one thing we've been waiting to hear from a presidential candidate: The flying car is on its way.

Verizon hopped on the annual phone upgrade bandwagon late last year, but only for iPhones -- not much good if you prefer Android-flavored devices. Thankfully, it's widening that circle today. The carrier is launching an ...

You know what I really really want when I'm on a plane? A computer strapped to my face.