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1. "Favorite" Files for Offline Reading If you "favorite" images or text documents on your mobile device using the Dropbox app, you can access those files later, even if you're not connected to Wi-Fi or cellular service....

Pinterest users can now prove that they are who they say they are — or that they own the website they say they do, at least. The feature will be available to anyone in possession of a top-level domain (for example...

The Samsung Galaxy S III mini (aka the GT-i8190) may have a Napolean complex, carrying as it does the name of its bigger sibling while endowed with a garden-variety 4-inch, 800 x 480 screen and other downmarket specs. Bu...

Take the money out of the bins budget Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined £120,000 for failing to use proper cryptography, resulting in the details of a child-protection case being shared with the wrong people....

No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that product photos users collected had disappeared and links to Collect posts were dead. Now Facebook confirms its "comp...

The Apple Store just went down, and we know what's coming next in this instance: iPad mini pre-orders start Oct. 26, and if past experience proves anything, they'll come online first thing in the morning. So if you're lo...

I like Halloween but I'm nothing like these three guys from Fairhaven, Massachusetts. They live and inhale everything All Hallow's Eve and their decorations are ridiculously insane, in a good way. Check them out in the t...

Big Data darling Cloudera's Impala product promotes SQL to peer-level with MapReduce.

If there's one thing you learn living in a crowded urban metropolis it's that birds don't have any trouble finding a place to nest. And when they do, you hope it's not anywhere within earshot of your windows. More �...

The downside to compact, energy efficient vehicles is their lack of cargo space. But designers around the world are hard at work ensuring that doesn't inhibit your ability to properly furnish your home. Like Carl de Smet...

Psy Lookalike at HallowMEME Click here to view this gallery. Psy look-alikes were aplenty at the 2012 HallowMEME costume party on Thursday night -- but only one could be named the gangnam-iest of all. Attendees were chal...

We want to know if you plan to make the leap to Microsoft's Windows 8, or if you'd prefer to avoid it for now. [Read more]

If you've filed tax returns in South Carolina sometime since 1998, you might be in a little bit of hot water. An unidentified, foreign hacker has gotten into the state's Department of Revenue, pilfering around 3.6 social...

This week readers e-mailed Mac-related questions about iTunes not printing some information columns, and more. [Read more]

The next round of iPhone 5 launches will hit next Friday in several countries, including India, Greece and Thailand, according to several reports. [Read more]

Although they may be very valuable to you, your personal details could be sold on the Internet for fractions upon fractions upon fractions of a penny. That's what happened to 1.1 million Facebook users who had their info...

Slipshod security at #16;the state Department of Revenue leads to a massive security breach: 3.6 million Social Security numbers are stolen. The state's population is approximately 4.7 million. [Read more]

Who needs hunky space miners wielding megaton nuclear warheads when an new MIT paper argues that paintballs could save mankind from asteroid annihilation. Graduate student Sung Wook Paek estimates that reflective paint-c...

Microsoft was warned that its decision to enable Do Not Track (DNT) by default in Windows 8's Internet Explorer 10 would encourage web content providers to ignore the request to keep advertisers from following user's mov...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless service provider Clearwire Corp said on Friday it will use equipment from China's Huawei in a high-speed network upgrade it starts in 2013, with the blessing of the U.S. government.

This week saw a launch of epic proportions, where a product created by geniuses was finally released after many years of tinkering to a grateful public. The iPad Mini? No, we speak of the Onion Book of Known Knowledge, a...

The Apple CEO is engaged in his own campaign to highlight faults of competitor's products in contrast to his unbridled delight in Apple's products. [Read more]