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I know it's hard to believe but the picture you see above? It's not a photograph. It's actually a drawing by amazing artist Diego Fazio. Like he drew this super realistic picture with a real pencil. It's stunning. MoreÂ...

Now that the iPad Mini has finally burst forth from a cocoon of rumors, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty and take a good look at which tiny tablet might be right for you. And of course, the biggest face-off is p...

So, the iPad mini is here at last! Smaller tablets have already carved out a real niche for themselves, and if you've always wanted an iPad but were scared off by its size, then maybe this is the day you've been waiting ...

When Microsoft first announced its plans to make Windows 8 an operating system that would work on tablets and traditional PCs alike, many considered the plan ambitious. Now that the OS is here, the Vivo Touch RT is the f...

Baikonur blastoff boosts Soyuz to station The latest crew of 'nauts are on their way to join their crewmates on the International Space Station after the Soyuz TMA-06M blasted off safely this morning.…

Teletext information service Ceefax will switch off for the final time on Tuesday evening after 38 years in British homes.

A dandelion-shaped ball aims to protect people from undetonated landmines -- just by blowing in the wind. Afghan-Dutch designer Massoud Hassani built the "Mine Kafon" by hand, according to the BBC. Powered by wind, the 1...

It's inevitable, right? With cameras becoming ever smaller and storage becoming ever cheaper, there will come a day when all of our life's memories are digitally preserved. Memoto, a Stockholm-based startup inspired by t...

Chases laptop into dumpster, escapes after screams heard before garbage compactor went to work A man in Perth, the capital of West Australia, has survived a spell in the back of a garbage truck after trying to find his l...

It's hard to imagine a Facebook without likes, shares, or even timestamps, but that's exactly the world created by Facebook Demetricator — a browser extension that strips all social metrics from your Facebook acco...

In a world full of great entrepreneurial ideas, how do you get your idea to stand out from the others?

If you're a Twitterer, you're probably very familiar with the Favorite button on tweets. It's Twitter's equivalent to the Facebook 'Like' and a way to show appreciation to a good tweet, a weird tweet, a tweeted link or a...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Chief Executive Marrisa Mayer promised to modernize Yahoo's websites and make them more smartphone-friendly in her debut appearance at the helm of the struggling company, faulting it for u...

I've never really been a fan of tapping a "Like" button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn't always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to say "hey I looked at this and it meant something", but maybe...

If you want to know the Internet's temperature on Obama and Romney in the race to become the next President, just check out this snazzy 2012 Election Mood Meter tool. It smartly calculates and analyzes real-time tweets t...

More than 527 million YouTube views later, you may be sick of "Gangnam Style," the bizarre and baroque Korean music video that's become a viral grand slam. But if you think the song and dance are dead and over, you clear...

When Instagram's roughly $750 million sale to Facebook closed, it seemed that the photo-sharing chapter in mobile app history closed. Instagram had definitively won, while many startups like Mixed Media Labs' Picplz and ...

Zynga confirmed that it started laying off U.S.-based employees ahead of what is expected to be a weak third-quarter earnings report. In all, 5 percent of the company's full-time workforce is being let go. As of the seco...

Now that AMD's fresh new FX processors based on the Piledriver architecture are out in the wild, the specialist hardware sites have seen fit to benchmark the top-lining FX-8350. Overall, the group feels that AMD has at l...

Watching someone else yawn can be a one-way ticket to doing the same. Now, research finds that the same is true for dogs — but not puppies.

Semiconductor company Broadcom this afternoon posted Q3 financial results that topped Street expectations.

I didn't think Apple would do it. When rumors of a new iPad 4 started to spread around the Internet, I ignored them. Try as I might, I just couldn't see Apple replacing a flagship product with another model in just seven...