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Visitors to MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition in San Jose, Calif., will get a chance to try out some of the popular myths from the hit show, and see many artifacts from the show's long history. [Read more]

David Rose loved Twitter, Facebook, and boob jokes. This is the norm for most 24-year-old guys. Except Rose was also a quadriplegic whose inspirational words...

The Met’s “Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop” shows how photographers have been cheating since shortly after the medium’s invention almost two centuries ago.

If you're a photographer who covers extreme athletes like mountain climbers and wants to capture a moment from a unique angle, you're probably willing to take some risks yourself. Like Corey Rich's use of an incredibly p...

It's time to once more check in with our start-up entrepreneur, Robin Thomas, who left his day job to start the social venture Really Great Freaking Things (- Invent really great things. Reinvent really great peopl...

eBay finished the first half of the current fiscal year on a strong note with the revenue growing 23% in Q2. The growth was primarily driven by PayPal which added one million new active per month in Q2 even as the Total ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is beginning MetPublications, an online resource that will allow users to search more than 600 catalogs, journals and bulletins.

They may look like fakes but their authors say they are very real. Excluding cropping or tone adjustments, none of these images have been Photoshopped (as in composed from many images or morphed or painted over). I look ...

What started as a donation paywall dispute has led to what looks like a break in ties between the two groups. [Read more]

Jeff Bezos revealed to the BBC that Amazon makes no profit off the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD. Both devices are sold at cost, which means, both devices' price is how much it costs Amazon to make them. More �...

The Red Bull Stratos mission control has announced that, after Tuesday's aborted supersonic space jump, the next launch is scheduled for Sunday, October 14 at 8:30am EDT. We will cover the Roswell event live. More �...

We've found the Shire and it exists in Switzerland. Just looking at these houses, built by Peter Vetsch, hidden in the Earth makes you think of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I want to live there so bad. More »

Restoration Hardware's fold away harp toolkit is equal parts beautiful and practical. Inspired by 19th century british design, the sleek instrument has a belt's worth of in one handsome stainless steel package. It includ...

The beauty of Tumblr is that it lets you share pictures in neatly arranged collections. Now you can post batches of images in that same style to anywhere using an app from Tumblr called Photoset. More »

Instagram is huge because it's a network made of people who are passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught on immediately with ever...

Rumours of the iPad mini continue to gather pace - with a source claiming a special Apple event will be held later this month.

How far will you go to get a free iPhone 5? What about embarrassing yourself in front of your entire country claiming that you have the tiniest penis in your homeland? More »

An Austrian daredevil aims to leap from the stratosphere Sunday in a supersonic plunge that would break the world record for the highest-ever skydive — a benchmark that has lasted more than half a century.

Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more scalable and more custom...

(Reuters) - International Business Machines said it was booking a pension-related fee in its third quarter of $160 million due to a ruling by the high court in London in a legal dispute over retirement terms at its UK bu...

Peoplesoft and Workday founder, Dave Duffield Enterprise software firm Workday finally debuted in the public markets this week. It did so in an anything but Facebook-like manner. The target price was raised before the IP...

If you had a choice between a new TV, a tablet, or a console, which would you buy if you had $300? Vote in our poll. [Read more]