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Tomorrow hundreds will meet up for Startup School, YC’s annual event for gutsy hackers thinking about founding a company. It’s one of my favorite events, and this year’s attendees will get to hear fr...

At this time of the year, with the major league baseball playoffs in full swing and the World Series right around the corner, I occasionally find myself thinking about the legendary sports cartoonist, Bill Gallo.

Wave goodbye to the days of inaccessible, high-priced video editing tools -- they're long gone. Anyone with a smartphone and a free YouTube account can create a video that could reach millions. For context, there are now...

Nicholas Allegra, better known as Comex or the hacker who released several versions of the iPhone jailbreaking tool JailbreakMe, is no longer working at Apple. Comex was quite unexpectedly hired by Apple as an intern app...

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Is this heaven? No, it's Greenland — lit up by a display of refracted sunlight. 'Tis the season for stunning atmospheric effects, and not just in the Arctic.

Insurance industry bosses say millions of people could potentially save money by using smartphone apps which monitor driving standards.

Newsweek, the magazine that wasn't U.S. News & World Report or Time, is going completely digital and will offer something called Newsweek Global in place of its international selection of paper tiles. Editor Tina Brown d...

San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup Apsalar got some plum access to Facebook's new ad network for promoting mobile apps. The company can now help developers see in real-time how their spending on Facebook ads is...

Google just announced a small but interesting update to its Knowledge Graph panels. Instead of just showing you a list of related items that other people also searched for, hovering over these icons now shows you how the...

I'm a sucker for OS X menu bar applications, and I'm also a big fan of browsing Instagram as a way to break up the day. Now, those two things come together in a single convenient package with Instabar. The Mac app debute...

If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a YC company. There are still questions about its legalit...

In the future, U.S. soldiers abroad may see their supplies come in carried under the bellies of zeppelins.

A British firm based on Teeside says it's designed revolutionary new technology that can produce petrol using air and water.

Just four months after a much-hyped introduction, the video chat company has laid off employees and is tweaking its features.

Online dating takes guts and gumption. It's not easy to put yourself out there and meet strangers for blind dates. San Francisco-based startup Tandem has recently launched a meetup platform that's changing the online dat...

He's been called one of the Internet's biggest trolls, responsible for disseminating offensive and, at times, questionably legal content via popular social news site Reddit....

People around the world were thrilled by Felix Baumgartner's space jump this week. We watched in awe as he set a new record for skydiving, launching himself from the stratosphere and landing safely in New Mexico. His act...

A British man hunted down his wife's alleged rapist on Facebook then beat him up before convincing her to report the alleged crime, according to the Telegraph. The man apparently used Facebook to speak to friends and fin...

Will Ferrell is one offbeat dude -- we've known that for some time. But these Swedish television ads for Old Milwaukee beer only burnish his bizarre legend. Funny Or Die shared the ad embedded above on Facebook on Thursd...

Imagine millions of people taking a photo all around the world at exactly the same second. That's what'll happen if enough people download a new free app — and then remember to use it when the moment arrives.

Every once in a while, you come across a smartphone app that you tell your friends they must download. It could be a game about...

Hey websites, here's a newsflash: Navigating the web on your phone isn't as easy as on your computer. Don't remind me by suggesting that I download your stupid app when I click on a link to your list of GIFs. As if I'm g...