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Solar Impulse 2 has made history yet again. Earlier this month it finally completed the US leg of its "around the world" journey bourne on solar-powered wings. From New York, where it made a pit stop last June 11, it has...

The natural gas leak at Aliso Canyon earlier this year was already one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. Several months later, however, it has now gained the additional distinction of being the first in...

The brief mention of differential privacy at WWDC earlier this month seemed to be in line with Apple's image. When senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi talked about the ways in which the company would contin...

What used to be considered as a luxury can be said to a necessity in this day and age – and I am referring to the air conditioner. After all, there are those nights when it is simply way too hot, where even the ceiling...

If you're an avid Facebook user and American Express customer, you might want to pay attention. American Express has announced Amex Bot, the product of a collaboration with Facebook to offer its card members special ways...

Our phones are always with us, and they're our only tool for doing most things anymore: getting in touch with someone, finding an address or phone number, navigating somewhere, taking a picture, and all that fun stuff. A...

Apple's next iPhone might not have a headphone jack, and it would appear that you're not excited about that. Not excited about that one bit. We've run a couple of polls on the subject this afternoon on Twitter, coming aw...

Securing exotic, high-performance vehicles for a video shoot can be an expensive and arduous ordeal. Between dealing with availability of the vehicle, location, and filming, setting up the perfect shot for movies or comm...

Fact: The Hubble Telescope is a better photographer than you or I will ever be. Now, it's going to keep right on showing us all up...at least for the next five years.

In any household these days, there are many different kinds of devices under a single roof, even if it is just the two of you – or heck, a single living there. This means that at the end of the day, many of the power o...

Brexit! It's a word! And thanks to a vote yesterday, it's a Thing! Most simply, it means that the United Kingdom is going to leave the European Union. But it might mean a hell of a lot more than that simple explanation f...

In a big move for openness in the VR landscape, Oculus has stepped back from its position of blocking its games from working on the HTC Vive. The company quietly issued an update for its desktop software today which stri...

And you cannot blame the guy. He has been asked about it a billion times, he said he had no problem returning, and now people think he's pushing for a movie. So count him out.

It's Pride Weekend in San Francisco, which means there will be over a million extra rainbow clad lovelies parading, dancing and celebrating in the streets and that's always fun. There's nothing San Francisco loves more t...

Sweden has launched its first electric highway, something that is serving as a test of sorts for a potential wider rollout later on. This is part of the nation's stated goal of ditching fossil fuel-based transportation i...

ATM skimmers are so successful is because they're nearly impossible to catch. They're cheap and easy to make and just slide onto anything you might use to swipe a card, stealing your information in the process. They're a...

Ha! I trapped the drink you ordered in a weird ice sphere. Bet you weren't expecting that. Don't even try melting it with your tongue or some shit, because I also lit the glass on fire.

In the legal back-and-forth surrounding the FBI's hack and subsequent arrest of 1,500 users of a dark web child pornography site called Playpen, the FBI has now moved to classify the Tor Browser exploit they used, Mother...

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With many of us sporting more than a single smartphone these days, it goes without saying that there are way too many different kinds of chargers to choose from. However, this does not mean that you need to throw up your...

Standard remedies for a hangover are generally limited to greasy food, a strong cup of coffee, or more booze. Order those mozzarella sticks from bed, because we've got the other two covered. You can thank us later.

New evidence shows that insects were using camouflage to hide from their predators as many as 100 million years ago--and wow did these ancient bugs ever employ some strange forms of deception.