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Anker's new vacuum transforms from handheld to upright, has the impressive runtime you'd expect from the brand that makes your favorite battery packs , a washable HEPA filter, a good warranty, and a $105 price tag that's...

Another fireball has been spotted shooting through the sky, this time in Phoenix, Arizona, where the American Meteor Society says more than 200 witnesses have confirmed seeing the event. Unlike most of these fireball eve...

Before getting my first tattoo, I joked that I was about to make any potential future as a fugitive from the law a lot harder. Tattoos, even trendy ones picked from the same book used by hundreds of other people, can be ...

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Last night, Elon Musk suggested that Earth is simply a simulation from an alien race's video game. Why would Musk say this? Because he is one of those aliens.

King Tut was buried with two knives, one of which has an iron blade and another that has a gold blade. Though a gold blade isn't terribly practical in terms of usability, it's pretty and seemingly benefitting of a king. ...

First Elon Musk wanted to nuke Mars, and now he thinks he knows how democracy there should work. Even though we're not really that close to colonizing the Red Planet, the SpaceX founder has some rather utopian ideas for ...

Nothing gets a Tinder match swooning like a well-informed political debate. Quite fitting, then, that the dating app has added a new, temporary feature for UK users to help them to brush up on EU referendum issues when t...

For those making their way to this year's Olympic games in Rio this August, Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues -- a pretty sweet deal for the credit provider. But, rather than be satisfied with exclus...

A smartphone unit shipments report released today suggests that basically everyone in the world who wants a smartphone already has one. This week Mary Meeker from VIA Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have released her an...

The Sims 4 has received a free update that is removing gender customization options, allowing for players to set up a more diverse range of Sims that express the features they want. If you want a female Sim with a manly ...

Although smartwatches are relatively slower to gain traction, the fitness wearable market has exploded in the past year or two. Almost anyone and everyone has a fitness tracker, whether a smart wristband or a clip, or bo...

Disney is continuing the Lucasfilm tradition of doling out Star Wars licenses to every last company on earth who wants to make merchandise. A couple years ago, Vans showed us that Star Wars shoes weren't an awful idea, b...

​The newly announced Gear Fit 2 is probably the fitness band Samsung should have made in the first place, but does the world even need another wrist-worn gewgaw? In case your answer to that is "no," Samsung is unveilin...

Samsung's original Gear Fit was as flawed as it was ambitious, but the market for fitness gadgets is still growing. Of course Samsung was going to try again! That's where the new $179 Gear Fit 2 comes in: Samsung took th...

Remember that annoying bastard of a dinosaur from Jurassic Park that sprayed his face open and spewed out poison at people? Yeah, that damn Dilophosaur terrified me as a kid. Actually, I'm still scared of it. So if I saw...

Here's some chillingly beautiful shots showing what it's like to cave dive the 'El Toh' cave in Yucatan, Mexico. It's a completely different world down there. When you're inside the cave with water all around you, it loo...

Up until now, Tinder's gender options have been rather, well, binary. It's either men looking for women or vice versa. However, that's going to change according to Tinder CEO, Sean Rad. "There's a transgender community o...

A United States Navy F/A-18 jet belonging to the Blue Angels demonstration team reportedly went down near Smyrna, Tennessee this afternoon. The incident does not initially appear to be tied to an earlier crash of a U.S. ...

It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the ...

Is it aliens? Sure sounds like aliens--but these strange, glowing patches over Pluto are actually something else (almost) as mysterious.

It goes without saying that ASUS' first-ever home robot, Zenbo, stole the show at this year's Computex. As soon as it rolled onto the stage during the keynote, everyone rushed to the front to get a good look at this cute...