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A typical lunch outing with friends lasts about an hour-and-a-half. If it's bottomless brunch, maybe tack on a few more hours. But supermassive black holes don't care for our human constructions of time--it turns out the...

A little over a week ago, seller valuestampsinc posted a listing on eBay for a Flaming Hot Cheeto vaguely resembling Harambe. On Monday, this inevitably became a viral story due to its exorbitant price--as of 11:45PM, th...

Pokemon hunting is apparently a messy business. The Milwaukee County Board passed an ordinance requiring the creators of location-based augmented reality games like Pokemon Go obtain permits before using parks as in-game...

It seems Chinese company ZTE has a new product in the pipeline, and it comes in the form of a smartwatch. Reportedly called the ZTE Quartz, this smartwatch is poised to become the company's first Android Wear product, si...

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Twitter‘s history with abusive users is pretty well known at this point, and it’s been in the news a lot lately. Twitter has been promising to implement new tools that will combat abuse for a few months now, and toda...

Tesla's Model S P100D is the fastest accelerating production car in the world, thanks to a Spaceballs-inspired software update. In a recent Motor Trend test, the Model S P100D hit 0-60 mph in 2.275507139 seconds using a ...

Apple’s obsessive attention to detail has delayed its spaceship-like Campus 2 almost as much as it has frustrated those working on it, a new report suggests. The donut-shaped facility which, eventually, will house more...

A Congressional hearing held Tuesday, "Making EPA Great Again," condemned the Environmental Protection Agency before it even began.

The PC you had a decade ago might be a clunker in comparison to what you have now, but it might just make you a little extra money. In the wake of a class action settlement with major optical disc drive makers over price...

The Renogy Phoenix is revealed as a solar-powered generator that’s fit in a carry-friendly suitcase size. This device looks quite like a briefcase from the outside – not a standard-looking suitcase, mind you, but a b...

The world seems like it's only full of ugly and terrible things right now, but find a microscope and you'll discover there's still beauty to be found. These microscopic crystals, invisible to the naked eye, look like for...

When you're new to making music, affordable gadgets provide a nice introduction without a hefty investment. As far as tiny synths go, Teenage Engineering's $59 Pocket Operators are an easy sell, but Zeppelin Design Labs ...

You most certainly know someone taking fish oil pills--those fishy, translucent gold capsules--for their purported heart benefits. But evidence continues to mount that fish oil might be snake oil. At the very least, it d...

Remember the ancient Chinese beer discovery publicized last year? It was a notable discovery for multiple reasons, including shedding light on agriculture in China at the time and giving modern humans an ancient recipe u...

When a black hole eats a nearby star, the resulting X-rays typically fade within a year or so. That's why astronomers are excited about a giant black hole that's been shedding telltale radiation for close to 10 years.

Facebook's problems of late are legion: fake news, hate speech, trolls, and the hideous and unpredictable violent outbursts on its Live platform. Now, apparently, the German court system is in the mix.

From kindergarten to my senior year, I attended public school in Wyoming, the state whose "grizzly bear school" became a flashpoint for Betsy DeVos's confirmation hearings. Because I was in the city of Cheyenne, though, ...

New York's ban on short-term rentals has officially started cracking down. As the New York Post reports, a notorious Manhattan landlord and a Brooklyn real estate broker were hit with 17 total violations of the new law. ...

The team at Google Brain has made an impressive breakthrough for increasing the resolution of images. They've managed to turn 8x8 grids of pixels into monstrous approximations of human beings.

Protests on the day of President Trump's inauguration were mostly peaceful, but over 230 people were arrested on allegations of rioting... and law enforcement appears bent on scouring their internet profiles for evidence...

Nintendo has been giving out a lot of free stuff to celebrate the launch of Fire Emblem Heroes but what’s coming later this week is by far one of the biggest prizes. Nintendo held a promotion on Twitter, asking for a F...