Author: Terren

We love DARPA's unsettlingly-lifelike BigDog bot. We love it in spite of the fact that it's absolutely terrifying in motion. Now it has some bestial competition:

Google's response to Apple's voice recognition/virtual personal assistant, previously dubbed "Project Majel" has reportedly gone through a name change, according to TechCrunch. Although Google has h…

If you think redheads are inherently different, well, you'd be right; they're better than you. In fact, they have a higher pain threshold than most of us, and can handle spicier food, too.
It turns ou…

Chrome: If you have a few browser extensions you love to use, but they cause problems on specific web sites or you don't need them enabled all the time, Extension Automation is a simple tool that auto…

It may come slightly too late for Caesar, but a post has appeared on Samsung Mobile IL's Facebook page saying that the long-awaited Android

With all the options Android users have for browsers, from Firefox to Dolphin to Chrome, it's still not that surprising that the most used is the stock Android browser that comes pre-installed on mo…

We've seen some pretty incredible smartphones and technologies at MWC, but it goes without saying that one of the hottest topics at the show was

General Motors is suspending production of its Chevrolet Volt electric car for five weeks amid disappointing sales.

The EPA has finished its usual gauntlet of tests and has found that this year's Ford Focus Electric is the most efficient five-seater

Rumours of an April launch for the Samsung Galaxy S III are becoming increasingly common, as ZDNet Korea has seemingly confirmed it with Samsung's marketing

While there's no shortage of child-friendly tablets, there's always been one sticking point: they're just a bit too expensive, given that they'll be dropped, slobbered on and generally abused.

No one, no matter how snooty, has actual blue blood. So why do veins look blue under the skin? Turns out, the answer lies in physics, not biology.
Although de-oxygenated blood is coded blue in medical…

Hockey fans were tweeting up a storm Thursday after TSN journalist Bob McKenzie wrote a column musing about the possibility of an NHL team relocating to Saskatoon.

Well, this is an exciting bit of news for green drivers. Envia Systems has come up with a new battery technology that could give a $20,000 electric car a range of 300 miles to a charge.

GSMA Awards: Samsung Galaxy S II wins Best Smartphone, Apple wins Best Mobile Tablet

Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year's CSUN accessibility conference and they're keen to talk up their latest efforts. For th

Over the past year, we've seen a lot to get excited about over this tiny computer, the Raspberry Pi. It can stream video via Airplay, can run Quake III, yet only costs $35.

Motorola created a bit of a stir yesterday when it released a video compared Android's Voice Actions on the Atrix 2 with iOS's Siri on an iPhone 4S. Fanboys screamed foul in the comments, so we decide…

It fires a 40-pound metal slug up to 5,600 miles per hour from New York to Philadelphia, slamming into its target with 32 times the force of a "1-ton car being thrust at 100 mph." Railguns aren't sci…

In yet another TechForum reveal, Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group has demonstrated a new interactive 3D desktop prototype. The system uses a transparent OLED screen made by Samsung along with…