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With its latest device, LeapFrog's continuing to fight the good fight: teaching kids essential skills through the power of consumer electronics. LeapReader's a sort of spiritual successor to the company's Tag line, maint...

A good digital-to-analog converter (or DAC) can seriously improve your music. We've explained why, but this week we wanted to know which ones you thought were the best. Then we looked at the five best DACs based on your ...

If you haven't seen your kitchen counters in years because they're covered in a slew of tiny appliances all designed to cook one thing, Jamie Oliver wants to help. Well, technically he wants to make money, but he's also ...

Visit any tech-heavy conference and you're bound to find a sea of MacBooks covered in clever decals playing up the glowing Apple logo on the lid. But a sticker only offers so much customization; if you really want your h...

In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering US$17 billion in bonds, the biggest non-bank bond offering in history, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The...

Bloomberg recently TV interviewed Marc Andreessen, the guy who's famous for co-founding Netscape and currently works as a VC at his own Silicon Valley VC shop, Andreessen Horowitz. Towards the end of the interview, he wa...

Apple CEO Tim Cook will be the opening night speaker at the 11th D: All Things Digital conference next month. Last year, Cook joined hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg for a 100-minute session that covered a wide varie...

Lonely star-spotter stranded 1.5 million km from Earth The European Space Agency has formally retired the Herschel space telescope after nearly four years of operation, and has placed it in a parking orbit that will keep...

Every time we use a touchscreen on an iPad, we leave tons of oily fingerprints on it. Andre Woolery and Victor Abijaoudi have decided to...

If you didn't know, Mother's day is a few weeks away (May 12th this year) so it's a pretty good idea to tell your Mom you love her. Though you should do that everyday! Especially if you're the sons of amazing Nina Levy. ...

Programmer John Graham-Cumming tells a fascinating story about what coding like was back in 1985. Unlike today's programmers who wear hoodies, down energy drinks and use a paper thin computer, programmers in 1985 had to ...

A team of artists takes the funniest Twitter missives they can find and turns them into short comics that up the entertainment value considerably.

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By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery.comHundreds of mysterious spheres lie beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, an ancient six-level step pyramid just 30 miles from Mexico City.The enigmatic spheres were found during a...

E-tailer sees commercial opportunity in Weibo Alibaba has moved into social media with a $586m splurge on an 18 per cent stake in China's Twitter, Weibo....

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/30/2013 12:07 PM EDT on LiveScience April 15, 2013, the date of the Boston Marathon bombings, was the...

As if Google Glass fanatics aren't already restless enough to get their hands on one, Google has uploaded its how to use Glass video tutorial on YouTube, showing this amazing piece of wearable technology in action. Right...

Mobile enterprise startups are like unicorns. Nearly every VC I talk to wants to have a bet in this space, yet there really aren't that many new candidates each year. Everyone knows that workers are bringing their own de...

As Julius Genachowski winds down his five-year term as Chairman of the FCC, rumors of his successor are in full swing. Now, Engadget has confirmed with a White House official that President Obama will nominate industry v...

Netflix hasn't been coy about its ambitions with original programming this year: from House of Cards to Arrested Development, the company wants to become the next HBO. Those plans will keep moving forward on July 11th wh...

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In the never-ending turf war between tech titans like Microsoft and Google, a new service called Kloudless is trying to make some peace. The free extension for Google's Chrome browser lets you send e-mail attachments dir...