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Cover of The Fires of Heaven After last year's fight over the TV rights to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Jordan's widow Harriet McDougal has said that the legal situation is sorted and a new adaptation is already on its...

A day after Twitter posted yet another quarter of mediocre growth, the company is making a small but notable change in how it positions its app on the iTunes Store. Starting today, Twitter is categorized under the "news"...

There's a new messaging app in town and it's called Talkshow. But unlike most other messaging apps, the conversations you have on it aren't private. Co-founded by former Twitter exec Michael Sippey, Talkshow's big idea i...

Chromebooks are Google's answer to the laptop. If you're not familiar, these devices run ChromeOS, which is essentially an operating system built around the popular browser. Today, HP announced their first high-end Chrom...

Forget using a trampoline to up your dunking game like some half-time NBA mascot. Go find yourself a bridge over a lazy river like the Dunking Devils did, attach a swing and a hoop, and you'll be pulling off dunks like t...

Samsung's Gear VR is one of the cheaper ways to get into good VR, but it's soundly surpassed by the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. But Samsung is determined to stay in the game, which is why it's developing at least one stand...

The complex battle between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone was tough for most people to fully grasp. But for Senator Barbara Boxer, who represents Apple's home state of California, it's as easy...

Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley, have detailed how the so-called "semantic system" in the human brain works, and their work could one day help form treatments for injuries and diseases that affect...

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Devoted NPR listeners on the West Coast may have noticed a sudden minute-long drop-off of audio during this morning's broadcast of Morning Edition. The reason: Today is Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and some ...

We have a smartphone here that exists in the space between the top two mobile device makers in the world: Samsung and Apple. This is the Meizu PRO 6, a device whose hardware and software find themselves at a point near s...

Peacocks, perhaps nature's most trippy bird, shake their tail feathers when it's time to attract a new mate. Why? Shaking those feathers -- called "train-rattling" -- causes an illusion where the eye-like circles on the ...

Artist Prasad Bhat made this fantastic art series, The Evolution, that tracks the career of famous actors and the iconic roles they've played in different movies. It's great because the expression of each actor never cha...

A few weeks back, you might have seen a video floating around of what appeared to be a Viner Kevin Parry playing catch with his own reflection. It's hard to look away from, but it's obviously impossible. That led comment...

New division sucks up Nexus, Chromebooks, Chromecast, OnHub, ATAP, and Glass.

Kindle's latest e-reader is out and it's a damn fine product--the best e-reader ever made even. It's also the most expensive e-reader currently available. So if the idea of spending $290 on a portable library makes you s...

In a biannual transparency report, Facebook has revealed that 60 percent of the data requests it gets from world governments includes a gag order. That means they include non-disclosure directives that prevent the compan...

Harman Kardon has taken the wraps off its next-generation GO + Play, a wireless speaker that supports three devices at once and includes a built-in handle for easily toting it around. The company boasts 'premium' materia...

Rick Osterloh, former president of Motorola, is now Senior Vice President at Google in charge of a new hardware division that includes the company's Nexus devices, living room gadgets and Glass, Re/code reports. This mea...

Many people have pointed out that Donald Trump's idea for a wall along the entirety of the US-Mexico border is silly. Most undocumented immigrants enter the country legally and simply overstay their visas. But what do Bo...

When you step out of the shower with a head full of dripping wet hair, you need to make sure that it’s dried before you try putting on clothes. If not, you get to deal with wet patches all over your shoulders and down ...

Last week, aspiring startups found out just how harsh kids can be when it comes to offering criticism. To see if his jokes were funny enough, a standup comedian put his skills to the test in front of a panel of school ch...