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Lutman Design has unveiled a gorgeous new wireless charger called Swich

Smartphone charges come in all shapes and sizes, and while the ones that are usually bundled with our phones are more than capable of getting the job done, aesthetically they...

Huawei is selling its smartphone through the WeChat app

Chinese manufacturer Huawei recently launched a new smartphone in China and to sell it the company looked towards an unconventional sales channel: a messaging application. WeChat is one of the...

Qualcomm made a DMCA takedown request on 116 code repositories

The Android community just got a big scare. In the space of a few days, Qualcomm has both made and retracted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request that took down...

NASA has approved a rocket designed for deep-space travel

For the past few years, NASA's been working on a powerful rocket called the Space Launch System meant for missions to the moon, Mars and other places far from our...

This man received $2000 in funding to Kickstart his potato salad

Zack Danger Brown of Columbus, Ohio wanted $10 to make some potato salad, so he went to Kickstarter. Now he has more than $2,000 to make potato salad, proving a...

German automaker, Daimler, has demonstrated a self-driving truck

Attention Google: Your self-driving car looks wimpy compared to this self-driving beast-turned-truck. On Thursday, German automaker Daimler demonstrated the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 to spectators. The New York Times reports...

The vast majority of NSA-intercepted data came from non-targets

Late Saturday night, the Washington Post dropped a bombshell of a report related to a trove of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The documents included...

Adrian Newey is reportedly working on an Infiniti supercar

Red Bull Racing Aerodynamicist and downforce extraordinaire Adrian Newey is famous for creating championship Formula One cars, but his resume may be broadening in the near future. Top Gear is...

How open will the internet be in 20 years?

There are four looming threats casting a shadow of doubt on the prospect of maintaining an open Internet by 2025, according to a canvassing of more than 1,400 experts by...

There is “healthy consumer demand” for the Vita according to Sony

Feel an ache in your wallet? Sweating palms that yearn to hold molded plastic? A constant craving to play games like Tearaway, Gravity Rush and Uncharted: Golden Abyss? Fear not...

Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients using credit card data

So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets...

NASA wants to send your personalized message to aliens

Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was...

Uber has been ruled legal in the UK

After uproar in the UK over taxi app service Uber, Transport for London has ruled that it is not breaking any laws. There has been growing upset over recent months...

The International Dota 2 Championships will have a noob-friendly stream

Dota 2's world championship tournament, AKA: The International, will feature a "Newcomer's Broadcast" this year to help those unfamiliar with the game's extensive jargon acronyms keep up with the action....

Mayday.us has raised $5 million to reform political campaign finance

This is the last day for the second Mayday.US fundraiser, where you can help Larry Lessig raise $5 million to elect Congressmen who will fight for campaign finance reform and...

The ‪invisible.im project wants to provide spy-proof chat for whistleblowers

A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message conversations...

RoboEarth is a cloud network that lets robots teach other robots

RoboEarth. No, it's not a lame SNES game from 1994, it's a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago,...

This t-shirt has a playable game of Tetris built in

In the 30 years since Alexey Pajitnov first launched Tetris, the world's most popular game has regularly been immortalized in fashion. Luxembourgian Mark Kreger wanted to do the same, but...

All personal data on Russian citizens must now be stored in Russia

A new law passed by Russian parliament today requires that internet companies store the personal data of Russian users inside the country's borders, a move that could make it easier...

On-demand music streaming has gone up over 42% in the last year

Digital music consumption is rapidly shifting from downloads to the streaming model popularized by the likes of Spotify and Pandora. According to Nielsen’s U.S. music report on the first half...