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Nintendo Switch launch day is here at last, but if you don’t have a pre-order, that means you’re out of luck, right? Not exactly - a number of retailers have the Switch in stock for walk-in customers today, but it’...

Cut the cord in style with the Francois et Mimi ANC Bluetooth Headset. Featuring a classic combination of materials, this headset is comfortable for any activity. The Francois et Mimi Headset features plush ear cups to h...

Maven is General Motors' Zipcar-style vehicle rental service, letting you pay an hourly rate to temporarily borrow a ride. But the company is now targeting folks who want to get around for longer periods at a time with M...

NASA had a bit of excitement earlier this week, with its Jet Propulsion Laboratory's flight controllers having to send commends to the MAVEN spacecraft, making it perform an evasive maneuver to avoid smashing into one of...

We won't be seeing the Samsung Galaxy S8 later this month but it's already trying to wow the geek crowd. At least based on the supposed Galaxy S8 that just landed on Geekbench. With model number SM-G955U, which is for th...

The Moneyball-era Oakland A's improved their on-field performance by using advanced statistics to build the best baseball team they could. In the bedroom, wearable devices like SexFit and Lovely bring a similar approach ...

Japanese-based messaging app Line is wildly popular in other parts of the world and the company has even expanded from a simple chat app to a full-service mobile carrier. According to a new report from the Financial Time...

Now you can code like an astronomer. NASA released its software catalog for 2017-2018 on Thursday and it is chock full of cool app, code libraries and utility programs that have been made available to the public, free of...

The Achilles tendon is a powerful body part connecting calf muscle to heel bone, enabling springing leaps and hurdles that make sports stars seem superhuman. But exactly how it connects to the bone hasn't been fully unde...

A single Bitcoin is currently worth more than an ounce of gold, marking a new milestone for the cryptocurrency. The move follows a steady rise in Bitcoin value, a trend that itself ended the cryptocurrency’s long-runni...

There's a whole world of bad security advice going around about traveling in and out of the United States. It's largely because under the Trump Administration there has been an uptick in Customs and Border Protection age...

In its first detailed acknowledgment of connectivity issues that some gamers are having with its new console's controllers, Nintendo has offered suggestions--some of them incredible--about how to alleviate the problem.

If you're interested in some Descent-like shooter action, you could wait for Descent Underground, the crowdfunded game from from a developer behind Star Citizen. However, it's not expected to arrive until next year, and ...

Uber's very bad year just got worse. The New York Times is reporting that the company used secret internal software as well as good old-fashioned cyberstalking to identify law enforcement officials who were investigating...

NASA is looking into returning to the moon, and companies are scrambling to get in on that action. One such company is Blue Origin, which anticipates setting up a delivery service of sorts near the moon's south pole. Suc...

The Nintendo Switch is out today--hooray! Unfortunately, some customers who pre-ordered from Amazon with a promise of launch-day delivery are getting the short end of the stick.

In an age where developers seemingly bend over backwards to accommodate fan requests (cough, the Mass Effect 3 ending, cough), Team Ninja decided to buck that for its latest game, Nioh. That's not to say that the develop...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 features a new costume for Star-Lord, aka Peter Quill, aka Chris Pratt. This new costume features a t-shirt with a coded message on it – and you know we can’t resist investigating. As su...

Saying this week could've gone better for Uber is a massive understatement. After its SVP resigned over undisclosed sexual harassment investigations and its CEO argued with one of the company's own drivers for complainin...

You learn about three or four phases of matter in school--solids, which have a shape and volume, liquids, which have a volume only, and gases and plasmas, which have neither a definite shape nor volume. But using the law...

A possibly faulty fuse has led to the upcoming recall of a million Mercedes-Benz vehicles, Daimler has announced. The issue has resulted in 51 known fires, 30 of which happened in the United States. Fortunately, no one w...

As the sun sets on Bungie's shooter MMO Destiny, its fans look ahead to a new dawn, when the old game hands its reign (and playerbase) over to its sequel coming sometime this year, currently called Destiny 2. Unfortunate...