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This is Part Two of my ongoing review series of XCOM Enemy Unknown. Read Part One here.

An anti-semitic Twitter hashtag is sparking outrage in France, as a wave of highly offensive posts flood the social network site. French newspaper LeMonde reports...

Boxee's origins were humble: once a free-to-download media center app for computers and Apple TVs, the software evolved into a full-blown media streaming box for home theaters, and a powerful one at that (if ultimately f...

Amateurs pluck nugget from Kepler data A group of amateur astronomers trawling through the vast store of data captured by the Kepler spacecraft has helped turned up a gem: a planet orbiting a double star, with another tw...

David Fischer, Facebook's vice president of marketing and business relationships, just offered a new statistic on the Facebook Offers program: He said that among the 100 most popular offers on the social network, three-f...

The more functionality you can squeeze out of a piece of furniture, the better it is for your cramped bachelor pad. So if your home life is a constant struggle with space, check out Agnieszka Mazur's Takka stool set whic...

What would you do for a car ride? This adorable cat sacrificed himself to both a lawn mower and cement truck, stuck himself in a railing, and quite literally threw himself to the dogs in order to hitch a ride to the vet ...

Tap for Tap, a Victoria, B.C.-based startup is changing course with a new initiative just over half a year into its existence, based on feedback received from its initial crop of developers. The ad network will now focus...

As rumored, Apple has sent out invitations for a special event, where the company is widely expected to debut a smaller iPad model. [Read more]

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's top three telecoms companies bid 41.63 billion baht ($1.36 billion) on Tuesday to obtain spectrum for new 3G services as part of the country's plans to expedite the introduction of long-del...

Remember when Path was super quiet with your nice group of fifty people? That's all going to change now. As I broke at TNW, Path has been tinkering with the notion of importing items from other social networks. The featu...

The chemist Paul Chirik at Princeton University has learned how to make iron function like platinum in chemical reactions that are crucial to various manufacturing processes.

The phone once coveted by the elite and the powerful is becoming an object of ridicule as Androids and iPhones corner the smartphone market.

In a warning issued by a government task force, mobile users are told to beware of malware that is especially lured to Android's operating system and ways to avoid it. [Read more]

Time lapse videos always make for a beautiful show but this one by Reid Gower might be the most impressive time lapse in a very long while: it shows places from all over our world—Vegas, Instanbul, the sky, the mo...

American Assembly research also finds copies of friends' tunes rivals piracy A preview of research conducted by The American Assembly, a “national, non-partisan public affairs forum” attached to Columbia Univ...

Some visitors to the microblogging site are being greeted with the message that the network is "over capacity." [Read more]

If your job is being a mythbuster, well, you're bound to have awesome stuff in your workshop. Tested visited Adam Savage in his shop and found some ridiculously awesome technology, like a 1981 1GB hard drive that weighed...

Albert Einstein first published his theory of special relativity back in 1905. Although the physics are complex, the theory has one simple rule: the speed of light cannot be broken. And, since then, it's kept its place a...

"What am I getting arrested for?" said Alvin, a 17-year old New Yorker. "For being a ***ing mutt", the NYPD officer can be clearly heard saying on the recording from Alvin's iPod, the only known audio from the 1,800"Stop...

Reworked Google Play Console brings better UI, more stats Google has overhauled the developer dashboards for its Google Play online store, with the aim of making it easier and faster for Android developers to publish, ma...

Marissa Mayer just made her biggest hire yet. Yahoo has poached Henrique de Castro, a top executive from Google (Mayer's previous company), to serve as its new chief operating officer, the company announced Monday....