You take a bite of a carrot. Snap! You nosh on soup. Slurp. You bite into a cookie. Crunch. The foods you eat make different sounds as you mash them with your teeth. University at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu decided to test whether technology can track food intake based on noises from eating. Xu …

Christian Willoughby had a bad day last week when he was taken in to the Grimsby Police Station in England on an unspecified misdemeanor charge. The one bright spot for him was that he reportedly managed to sneak a mobile device into the cell with him. He later posted a Facebook selfie, a series of photos and a review that …

Apple’s newest iPhone is believed to be coming at an event March 21. That means the usual flurry of rumors surrounding the updated smartphone is turning into a full-blown blizzard of speculation, hints and leaks. A video published Monday purports to show the new iPhone SE in the wild in China. The iPhone SE, if that’s what it ends up …

Most of us are still getting used to having Facebook’s new reaction icons around. Instead of just “liking” a post on the social network, we can now express a wider range of emotions, from love or “wow!” to sad or angry. The cartoony icons are inspired by emojis and they’re really pretty dull. Now you can spice up your Facebook …

Not every drone lives a life of luxury, flying lazily over parks with soft grass below to cushion its fall in case of an accident. Some drones live dangerously and get run over by flying jet skis in spectacular mid-air collisions. Filmmaker Guy Mac on Tuesday released the official event video for the 2016 Yamaha New Zealand Festival of Freeride …

Move over, Oscars red carpet, we’ve got a dress that blows your designer duds out of the picture. Lego builder Brian D’Agostine spent four months weaving specialty Lego pieces into a wearable dress so his wife could attend a Lego convention in style. The little black dress is made from about 12,000 individual Lego Technic pieces. Lego Technic is a …

Back in my day, McDonald’s fast-food Happy Meals came with little plastic toys like chicken McNuggets dressed as cowboys or Garfield the cartoon cat on a skateboard. And we were grateful. Kids these days are about to get a whole new dimension of reality with their Happy Meals. McDonald’s Sweden is kicking off a campaign with Happy Meal boxes that …

Nobody can truly see into the future, but a spoof website imagines what popular social news and discussion site Reddit would look like 1,000 years from now and it sure feels real. Reddit3016 takes a deep dive into a world where Mars is populated, people slice genes for fun, and pocket whales are the hot pet trend. The look is …

Families warred from within. Friends bickered. The Internet’s collective mind broke apart like an egg dropped on a tile floor. What was it that brought such a calamity upon our world? It was a photograph of a dress. Not just any dress. The Dress. Here’s a refresher. One year ago, on February 26, 2015, a lacy dress with horizontal layers …

Netflix could have released two complete trailers for the anticipated next season of its action-filled superhero drama “Daredevil,” but instead it went with a cliffhanger approach. The first trailer focused on vengeful, kill-em-all guest star Punisher, but ended with the enigmatic Elektra appearing at Matt Murdock/Daredevil’s place. The second part of the trailer dropped Thursday and picks up with more …