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City driving is best done with small cars -- they're easier to park, easier to zip around in, and easier on gas consumption -- but small cars have a big downside. Models like the Smart ForTwo are only big enough for two ...

NASA is setting aside money to fund the most ambitious and odd-but-interesting projects that made it through NIAC's first phase. NIAC or NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is the agency's annual program that welcom...

Eliminate air pollution around you within seconds by using Breathe. This is one of the world's smallest and most advanced wearable air purifiers you can easily carry on the go. It comes in two colors of cadet grey and ma...

You're finally grasping the concept of the USB-C port and now it's time to keep your new laptop safe and sound with the Carry-On Folio Sleeve for 12" MacBook by Mujjo. Available in all black, this sleeve is built to last...

A group of Danish researchers scraped data from 70,000 OkCupid profiles, packaged it in a data set, and released it on the internet. While the profiles are technically public, collecting personal information on such a ma...

Xbox has rolled out backward compatibility support for games that span multiple discs, starting with Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut. This means players can look forward to even more classic Xbox 360 games hitti...

Researchers at Stanford University have created a drone that can perch on walls and ceilings like a bug, making progress on the problem of limited flight endurance that has plagued the devices.

Most streaming services aren't very useful when you leave your home country. If you don't lose access entirely, you'll probably be forced to look at unfamiliar content and equally unfamiliar languages. However, that shou...

Ben completes the Portable Atari 2600 while wrestling with the trials of laser cutting and 3D printing. Why won't everything fit just right? Ah well, nothing a bit of soldering can't fix! Felix updates us on a side proje...

Image: Hyundai Hyundai is developing an exoskeleton that it hopes will eventually become a transportation device. The future will look less like Iron Man, and more like Aliens.

Every week, a quarter of Americans take a painkiller that could be dampening our collective feelings of empathy. In a paper published online this week, scientists claim that acetaminophen, Tylenol's main ingredient, make...

Movie adaptations based on big-name, current generation video games, like Assassin's Creed, World of Warcraft, and Uncharted for example, are nice and all, but what the world really needs is to see the all-important clas...

Samsung thinks it has a possible solution to the problem of tiny, hard-to-read smartwatches: a projector. The company has filed has filed a patent for a smartwatch that projects a larger screen onto the user's hand or fo...

At a time when digital memories are a swipe away, instant film photography can feel tedious. But Impossible Project's I-1 camera makes the old school format feel new again. For its first instant camera, the German compan...

Replicating human movement is an engineering challenge, and robots are slowly getting better at delicate movement all the time. A research team funded by Disney has constructed a remotely operated robot sensitive enough ...

We often see mobile carriers throw in bonuses or discounts on plans in an effort to lure away customers from rivals, especially during the Christmas and New Year's holiday period. But here we are, in the middle of May, a...

By Cat DiStasio Air pollution is a huge problem in cities around the globe. The widespread burning of fossil fuels combined with the destruction of air-cleaning forests results in dense concentrations of smog in large ur...

In February, the White House formally asked Congress for $1.8 billion dollars to help combat the Zika virus this summer. Now, the Senate has worked out a bipartisan deal will allocate $1.1 billion in emergency funding.

For the last week and a half, there have been a growing number of complaints from Apple Music and iTunes users about locally stored music being deleted in exchange for copies available in the cloud. As James Pinkstone, w...

Tesla's recently shifted forecast of achieving 500,000 Model S, X and 3 deliveries by 2018 sounded laughably absurd, but joining the circus will be Audi's Peter Hochholdinger, juggler of production at the German automake...

Flying a drone can come with some unforeseen hazards: hawks have taken out drones on more than one occasion , but now, there's another hazard for pilots to take into consideration: Spear-wielding Russian reenactors.

Snowden Interview: Why the Media Isn't Doing its Job Emily Bell, Columbia Journalism Review NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sat down with the Columbia Journalism Review (virtually, of course) to discuss the power of the...