Gadget News

This year's Mobile World Congress played host to plenty of phones I couldn't stop playing with, and the $599, Caterpillar-branded Cat S60 was near the top of my list. First, though, a painfully obvious disclosure: I have...

Speed bump is exactly as impressive as the model number conveys.

While Twitter isn't completely opposed to third-party sites preserving tweets, it has its limits: the social network has effectively shut down PostGhost, a days-old service that archived the tweets of verified users with...

Back in 2011, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted dark streaks running down canyons and hillsides on the red planet, which indicate the presence of water. That was a cause for celebration, as having water on Mars ...

Nintendo has traditionally been steadfast in its dedication to hardware, even as rival consoles have out-performed, out-exclusived, and eventually out-sold it in the process. It's taken the company years to concede that ...

The Democratic National Convention will cruise through Philadelphia from July 25th-28th and the party would love for more people in and out of the event to engage with it. But instead of the usual Twitter and Facebook ou...

The families of five Israeli and US citizens killed by Palestinian attacks on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the West Bank are suing Facebook for $1 billion in damages, Reuters reports today. In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs cl...

A new method has been proposed that could allow scientists to develop a "3D brain-on-a-chip." Something which could offer researchers a new platform to develop a far better understanding of how brain cells react to medic...

Do you hear that sound? It's 65 million years ago and there's a dinosaur calling out through the wilds. But it's not a roar. Instead new research says that sound would probably be better described as a "coo" or a "mumble...

You've probably seen Amazon's work-in-progress spherical Seattle biodomes by this point -- they're essentially large glass spheres with a somewhat angular frame, and at least per the renders that have been released, they...

As someone living in a country where Pokémon Go has yet to come out, it's been certainly something to be an outsider looking in upon the sheer Pokémania that has gripped the U.S. this weekend--a touch disconcerting eve...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Tesla after it failed to disclose the fatal crash of a Model S cruising on Autopilot immediately to investors, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tesla sold $2 billio...

Considering all the complicated weapons that Man at Arms has made in the past, I thought forging Aquaman's Trident of Neptune would be relatively easy for them. But then I realized that Aquaman's trident is actually more...

History was made when the first in-flight movie was screened over Chicago in 1921 . But it wasn't until 1939 that passengers were treated to the first in-flight TV. What was playing on the boob-tube in the sky? Live foot...

The search for water in our solar system is one that hasn't turned up too many results, but scientists may have a lead on water in a rather unlikely place. According to new research, the dwarf planet Ceres has spots on i...

We were all quite pumped a few weeks ago when Anki announced its plan to move beyond smartphone controlled cars into emotionally intelligent robots . At the time of the announcement Anki indicated that it would release a...

It's happening quietly and you may not even know it. But starting next year, Universal Studios is rebooting their classic Monsters movies into one cinematic universe. The Mummy with Tom Cruise is filming , Russell Crowe ...

Signing in to Pokemon GO with a Google account is not safe - not at the moment, anyway. Security researchers have discovered this morning that the app seeks (and is granted) an unusual amount of access to players' Google...

As crucial as Tor's anonymity network can be for keeping your online activity private, it's not flawless -- a motivated hacker can compromise legions of users, whether they're crooks or privacy-minded innocents. Research...

A few days ago, Samsung quietly launched a new storage option: the 4TB 850 EVO, a SATA SSD hailed as the highest-capacity SSD available for anyone to buy. It's a welcomed storage option for those who've stuck with their ...

When you work in a field where you have to constantly measure things, you know how annoying some items can be to get an accurate number on. There are measuring tapes for all sorts of different jobs, some are loose and fl...

Amazon is hard at work on offering its employees something decidedly out of the ordinary when it comes to office culture. Instead of something frivolous like special chairs or a cafe, employees are getting a special gree...