Lenovo brings Google's Tango to consumers with Phab2 Pro smartphone, enabling a whole new class of augmented reality applications. | Continue reading
Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 is coming, but the console won't be on display at E3 this year. | Continue reading
Spoiler: we are not calling any of them "Elementy McElementface." | Continue reading
Lenovo is helping to jumpstart its Moto brand with an impressive new accessory connection technology it refers to as Moto Mods. | Continue reading
Google is working on keeping robots from learning the wrong things, filtering their perceptions in a way we're going to have to do more and more over time. | Continue reading
Google claims it wants to start building wireless gigabit connections to its fiber customers to cut costs, but whether it can deliver what it promises through the 60GHz spectrum is open to debate. | Continue reading
Blizzard met with the Nostalrius team this week, as promised. While there's no near-term plan to develop custom servers, the company is open to the idea. | Continue reading
The Shield TV box is now the cheapest all-in-one Plex media server you can get. | Continue reading
Nvidia has announced that they'll no longer support three-and-four-way SLI configurations, save in specific circumstances. This isn't likely to mean much in practice, however, as scaling above two GPUs has never been truly useful aside from bragging rights and benchmark scores. | Continue reading
Radio interferometers high in the Atacama desert just provided us with some of the first direct evidence of how black holes feed -- and it means we have to change our assumptions. | Continue reading
Amazon is currently selling an entire year of Xbox Live Gold at a 33% discount. Whether you have an Xbox One, an Xbox 360, or both, a Gold membership makes your console experience significantly better. And with today's $20 discount in play, it's hard to pass up. | Continue reading
A second group of small hominid fossils has been found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. | Continue reading
After six years in off-and-on development, Mozilla's Electrolysis project is finally coming to users with Firefox 48. | Continue reading
Fifteen months after Superfish, Lenovo still hasn't learned its lesson. The company's latest hardware is still shipping with critical security flaws, and the company is still trying to protect itself by claiming it only affects its consumer product lines, not business or enterpri … | Continue reading
This could lead to treatments for migraines with aura and even IBS. Spiders. Why did it have to be spiders? | Continue reading
Déjà vu all over again: another Tesla crash, and another claim that something mysterious happened in a car with self-driving features. | Continue reading
LISA Pathfinder has produces astonishingly accurate results, paving the way for LISA to reveal the secrets of the universe with all new insight into gravity. | Continue reading
With E3 2016 just a week away, there are rumors that Microsoft will unveil a major new push to bring PC and Xbox gamers together. If that's going to work, the company needs to make some significant changes. | Continue reading
HTC announced today that it will ship all Vive headsets within three days while Oculus own ship-dates are still stuck in the August timeframe. That's a significant coup for HTC, even if its hardware is more expensive. | Continue reading
AMD and Intel are both planning a refresh cycle for 2016, but new rumors suggest that the two companies could delay in 2017. It's not impossible -- but it doesn't make much sense, either. | Continue reading
How do you capture an image of a black hole? Use the entire planet as one huge telescope. | Continue reading
Premium luxury sedans are all fabulous; who's on top when they all have great engineers? Often, it's whose car is newest. | Continue reading
Could nanoscale vacuum tubes replace transistors in future devices? Caltech thinks they could, and it's building proof-of-concept devices without the leakage that plagues modern hardware. | Continue reading
The Apache AH-64E has been upgraded to coordinate reconnaissance and air strikes with drones that fly ahead of the chopper and send back real-time video data of the environment and any human activity within the target area. By combining drones with attack helicopters, the militar … | Continue reading
Intel's new Broadwell-EX CPUs feature up to 24 cores, new RAS features, support for stacked 3D DRAM, and they're drop-in replacements for motherboards that support the Xeon E7 v3 family. | Continue reading
Humans entered BEAM for the first time, but they didn't stay long. | Continue reading
The $25 Far Harbor DLC takes the player to a new location off the coast of Maine, and adds a thick layer of radioactive fog that causes the frame rate on the PS4 to drop in a big way. Thankfully, Bethesda has already released a new version of the DLC that significantly improves p … | Continue reading
Apple could be planning a major refresh for the MacBook Pro with an OLED panel replacing the function keys, a MacBook-style keyboard with butterfly switches, and a thinner chassis. | Continue reading
After more than a decade of QuietComfort headphones, Bose has unveiled the flagship QuietComfort 35, the successor to the wired QC25 and the first version that's wireless and contains active noise-canceling circuitry. | Continue reading
There might be a new kid in town in the GPU/motherboard integration game: How does a 1070 attached to Skylake sound? | Continue reading
When you buy games on Steam, you're locking yourself into that platform, and you have to abide by Valve's restrictions. Thankfully, the folks at GOG.com have put together a clever solution that allows developers to offer DRM-free versions of their games for free to existing Steam … | Continue reading
Eighteen months is apparently not long enough for Samsung to develop Windows 10 drivers. | Continue reading
The GX800 is a water-cooled gaming laptop that takes "desktop replacement" literally. | Continue reading
ARM unveiled new plans for its CPU and GPU line-ups today, with parts expected to launch in 2017. The Mali-G71 and Cortex-A73 should both be upgrades and improvements on existing parts. | Continue reading
Sony is rumored to have made backwards compatibility mandatory on the PS4, but comments from an anonymous developer may indicate otherwise. If the PS4K is necessary for good VR performance, it's going to double the cost of buying into Sony's VR technology. | Continue reading
Mazda crossovers have always been fun to drive. The new CX-9 begs to compete with Pilot and Highlander with new levels of technology and better NVH. | Continue reading
Modern medicine is formidable in many areas -- but can it take on aging or bring on the singularity? | Continue reading
We may have to dig deep to detect the remains of ancient alien life in our solar system. | Continue reading
This tiny robot can fly and land like a real bee. | Continue reading
Moog Music announced it's reintroducing the classic Minimoog Model D synthesizer with a pilot production run at Moogfest 2016. | Continue reading
Astronomers have spied a star that looks like it's in the wrong galaxy -- but no, it's just a sign that nuclear physics could be about to change. | Continue reading
It's not quite a Babelfish, but it's close enough to prove that a real universal translator is just around the corner. | Continue reading
Need an affordable portable gaming rig? Take a look at this 15.6-inch Alienware 15 R2 from Dell. It can handle 1080p gaming while you're away from home, and when you get back, you can get the full experience on the big screen. And thanks to today's 10% discount, you can grab this … | Continue reading
New research suggests Mars didn't just have a liquid ocean -- it may have suffered devastating tsunamis up to 400 feet high. | Continue reading
IBM Watson came to Moogfest, but there were no Jeopardy questions this time -- it's moved far beyond that. | Continue reading
If you're looking for a killer MIDI controller that feels like not just one "real" instrument, but many of them, Artiphon could be your salvation. | Continue reading
Will the next Human Genome Project be the Human Genome Synthesis Project? It's possible this could be a bridge too far. | Continue reading
New research into HIV vaccines could have found a good target for antibodies -- but what does that mean, exactly, and why might this be different than the cures that have come (and gone) in the past? | Continue reading