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The poor reception for Apple's new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications, but it didn't actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them -- except for one. Israel's Waze boosted its marke...

Looking for something stellar to do this weekend? Wander outside of the city early Sunday morning and observe the Orionid meteor shower. [Read more]

This, over course, goes hand in hand with the related question "Would you/Do you trim your eyebrows?" This stencil, apparently getting popular in Japan, is aimed squarely at men. Worth the weirdness? [Japan Trend Shop vi...

Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator's annual Startup School event this morning for a one-on-one conversation with Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham. It was his second major sit-down, on-stage interview since...

Office warfare has ascended to new heights. The weapon of choice: the iStrike Shuttle, a heli-bomber that lets you drop ammo (read: ping-pong balls) on coworkers. Wirelessly controlled by an app that works with an iPad, ...

Editor’s note: Steli Efti is the Co-Founder/Chief Hustler of ElasticSales and an advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs. You can follow Steli on Twitter here. Selling to the U.S. market can be a significant...

In a warehouse in New Jersey, some messy, weird stuff went down. There was an explosion, but not just any explosion: a counterfeit ketchup explosion. No, nobody was trying to sabotage the illicit shipment, there's some s...

How's Your News began 15 years ago when a set of developmentally disabled adults hopped on a bus and travelled around the country interviewing folks on the street. The mixture of charm, astuteness, and fascination with t...

It doesn't take a genius to realize dry ice is awesome, and with Halloween right around the corner, you're bound to be seeing a lot of it. But did you know dry ice bubbles can be used as a practical effect to make whirli...

An underwater robot is helping to track sand tiger sharks off the East Coast of the United States.

Pheed -- the celeb-fuelled social networking site that has gone a bit viral in the last few days -- may be going on a diet.

A woman concerned that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will create black holes and destroy the Earth lost a court appeal to shut the atom smasher down on Tuesday.

A giant wave of super-hot solar plasma larger than the Earth erupted from the sun on Friday in a spectacular display captured by a NASA spacecraft.

Painting your house is a real pain in the ass. But you know what's worse? Hanging wallpaper. With these patterned paint rollers you can mimic the look of wall paper. Amazing! More »

Mark Zuckerberg has been understandably very busy in the months since he took Facebook public -- closing and integrating the billion dollar Instagram acquisition, overhauling Facebook's mobile strategy, jetting to far-fl...

Do we have a Microsoft-Apple rumble on our hands? Looks that way with the Surface tablet on back order a few days before the expected iPad Mini arrives. [Read more]

Looking for new apps? Check out some of our favorite iOS and Android apps from the week. More About: App, android, iOS, iphone, trending, weekly app roundup

A forum on Reddit, a community and social news site, has set off a debate about privacy and free speech after it encouraged people to post covert photographs of women.

Inspired by his parents, who worked in the health care industry, the chief executive of MEDfx turned a passion for computers into a business developing health information software.

Owners of high-definition televisions can use new wide-angle webcams to put their Skype video calls on the big screen.

When a blogger was wasting too much time on Facebook, YouTube and Reddit, he hired someone to slap him every time strayed from his work. More About: Social Media, craigslist, productivity

Busuu - the language learning community offering largely free audio-visual online courses - has been playing has been boostrapping away relentlessly for a few years and only last year raised an Angel round from FON-found...