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Here’s a short video that’ll wrinkle your brain a bit. Like debunking 50 common misconceptions, this video shows 13 facts you might not know are true. Like how Neil Armstrong had to clear customs after going to the Moon. Or that Russia is bigger than Pluto. Learning is fun. If I learned all this stuff [...]

This is China’s stealth combat drone, an airplane that seems very similar to the American Northrop Grumman X-47B. The unmanned combat air vehicle was photographed while performing taxiing tests. Given the development speed of China’s other military aeroplanes, it wouldn’t be surprising to see this in flight in the next few weeks. According to China [...]

Your skin shouldn’t look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that’s why we invented suncream. However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection — screw it up and you could get burned. It’s not the visible light from the Sun that causes your skin [...]

Upgrade your iPhone 5′s default sync cable with the thicker, posable Trunk and you’ll never spend another second of your life untangling that web of knots that magically appears in your pocket. Available now for just £25, the Trunk’s reinforced core can actually support your iPhone 5 in almost any position, letting you more easily [...]

Photographer Jared Lim has an knack for capturing colourful patterns around the world, and they make for some eye-catching photos in his series Urban Exploration. As he told MyModernMet, the project is a work in progress that’s spanned many years. The Singapore-based Lim travels for work, and over the course of his trips, he’s culled images from [...]

Kicking and screaming will the late adopters be dragged into the future. But if you want to stoke their deepest fears just the right amount, let xkcd be your troll-guide: Maybe before we rush to adopt <Google Glass> we should stop to consider the consequences of blithely giving this technology such a central position in [...]

The first crazy leaps into a Star Trek future just showed up in the latest stable build of Chrome. As of now, “Conversational Search” has now rolled out, which means that Chrome can now remember what you’re searching for if you ask a couple of questions in a row. Like Google demoed at I/O, the [...]

The all-new Xbox One is coming soon, and that’ll mean a whole host of brand new games to play on it. The thought of it is generating so much drool here that we’re all wearing Microsoft-branded bibs today. But let’s not forget about the humble, soon-to-be-obsolete Xbox 360. There’s still a bit of life left [...]

Bikes are great — cheap, light, easy to use, and super-duper-eco-friendly. But they’re also tiring. I mean, all that pedalling. It’s exercise. It sucks. So an electric bike, which gives you a subtle helping hand, would seem to be the best of both worlds.   What is it? A £1,450 electric bike, that combines the [...]

As did the Kinect before it, the new Kinect 2.0 with its insane heart beat-reading powers, is coming to the PC soon too. No exact date was given, but you can look forward to shouting at your Windows 8 box and have it basically know what you’re thinking before you do. [Shacknews via TechRadar]

One of the best blink-and-you-miss-it moments from the new Star Trek film is a pan across a whole bunch of models charting the history of flight and space travel, all sat on Admiral Marcus’ desk. If you missed them in the carnage of gunfire, explosions and beat downs, here’s what they look like up close. [...]

When Microsoft introduced Kinect three years ago, it brought pervasive computing into many homes for the very first time. Today, with the announcement of Xbox One, it’s poised to pull millions of people into the era of the truly connected home. And we’re all going to look damn good getting there. Xbox One is less [...]

Late last year we told you about Scanadu and its real-life tricorder, called the SCOUT. Within 10 seconds of direct contact to your left temple, the SCOUT analyses  records and spits back your vitals, including temperature, respiratory rate, ECG, blood pressure (systolic, diastolic), stress and oximetry levels. Today, Scanadu is announcing three upgrades to Spock’s once [...]

After Halloween revelers desperately wanted to buy his impressively detailed Daft Punk helmet (Thomas Bangalter version) Mauricio Santoro realised he could probably make a few quid from his creation. So he got a small production line going and is now selling the helmets on Etsy for £340 until they run out, or until Columbia Records catches wind of [...]

The crazy technology HQs war just took a step up in the bizarre-yet-ecofriendly stakes. Amazon unveiled drawings for its new downtown Seattle office, complete with massive spherical glass greenhouses packed with exotic plants and mature trees — a glassed-off bit of the Amazon for, err, Amazon? The mini rainforest-cum-park domes will saddle up next to [...]

Last night, Microsoft unleashed, with no fanfare and minimal ado, the Xbox One. From the looks of things, it’s shaping up to be a titan of the living room, but maybe with a little less focus on games than some had hoped. Handily, we live in one of those capitalist societies famed for competition, so there’s [...]

A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Twitter user Emma “Right Of” Way said, in a tweet since removed after the account was binned: “Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier. [...]

This version of London’s iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network — but in fact it is created entirely from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. That’s a pretty insane feat. Its creator, freelance web developer John Galantini, has recreated every symbol, line, circle and piece of text using HTML and CSS. [...]

Vodafone’s not quite ready to battle EE in the 4G market, with plans to launch a rival superfast network pushed back to the “end of the summer” when it believes there’s a “good commercial window” for it. Which we think means fleecing iPhone upgraders for an extra fiver a month, come the arrival of the [...]

Since 2005 BC over 35,000 meteorites are known to have hit the Earth — but just 1,107 have actually been seen falling. This visualisation shows how they pockmarked our planet over time. Created by Carlo Zapponi, the animated visualisation is based on data from the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. It’s quite fun to watch the animation, [...]