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Boston is welcoming self-driving cars onto its streets, with city officials giving startup NuTonomy permission to test its autonomous vehicle in a small region in South Boston. This will mark the first time a self-drivin...

This December 31st and January 1st, you can set off animated fireworks on your Facebook News Feed to welcome 2017. Simply click or tap a trigger phrase, such "Happy New Year" (of course), on your friends' or even your ow...

Microsoft envisions uses for augmented reality beyond digital pets and reading messages overlaid onto your environment -- namely, finding your lost keys, among other things. Such was detailed in a patent recently filed b...

Casting Harry Potter wasn't as easy as finding a cute kid who could stare wide-eyed as he was told he's a wizard. It turns out, he also needed to have the rocks to get down and dirty in a multi-year franchise...even if t...

Coming out of my cage

It's an age-old question: what exactly was going on when you laid waste to cartoon ducks with the Nintendo Zapper? The 8-Bit Guy is here to exhaustively explain exactly how this beautiful little accessory worked its magi...

Image: Getty A Maine farm owner believes that the only way to ensure a rare breed of pig survives is to get people interested in eating them.

In a weird moment of synergy, it turns out that Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is distantly related to the guy who first brought the character to life over 100 years ago. That's...kind of awesome.

In a new documentary on the RMS Titanic, a journalist who has researched the topic for 30 years claims a fire that burned continuously throughout its voyage fatally weakened the ship's hull before it hit an iceberg, blam...

We'll come right out and say it: 2016 wasn't the greatest year by any standards. In particular, divisive politics and celebrity death seemed to cast a long shadow over the last 12 months. There was the occasional ray of ...

Image: Yelp A San Francisco restaurant with three Michelin stars has discovered an incredible new iPad hack--it can also be a plate.

The new year is likely to be a tough one for NASA. There's a decidedly anti-science administration coming into power. Trump has already vowed to cut the Earth science division in order to kill climate change research and...

Lenovo's Phab 2 Pro has a mouthful of a name and a somewhat bland design. But what might seem like a forgettable phone really isn't: This massive 6.4-inch handset is the first available phone with Google's "Tango" 3D map...

Nikon has announced it’s teaming up with Verily, the company previously known as Google Life Sciences, to help improve the detection of diabetes-related eye diseases -- diabetic retinopathy and macular edema, two of th...

A Billion Dollar Gift for Twitter Anil Dash, Medium Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asked the masses this week what the company should focus on in 2017. After a year filled with harassment issues and the failure to court a buyer...

It's the last day of a stupid shitty year, so let's watch a bunch of superheroes take their shirts off.

The crew of the International Space Station has taken the ubiquitous Mannequin Challenge as far as it can go--260 miles above Earth's surface.

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing giant that builds Apple‘s iPhone along with dozens of other devices, has recently revealed its plans to eventually replace all the human workers in its Chinese factorie...

When the first smartwatches made it to our wrists a few years ago, we were willing to overlook shortcomings because the product category was in its infancy. But the technology has had time to mature, and 2016 should have...

The latest Doctor Who Christmas special doesn't look to have wowed audiences in the UK, but it turns out Americans love combining their Doctors with superheroes. It's the most-watched episode in BBC America history.

Photo: Getty As 2016 comes to a close, many people will countdown the seconds until midnight with friends and family. For some it will be a party, for others, it will be a burial--but they'll have their loved ones close ...

Today on In Case You Missed It: We are rounding up some favorite stories from the year before it's lost to us all. When next you see ICYMI, it'll be from CES. As always, please share any interesting tech or science video...