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A drop of water might seem mundane, but if you take a picture of one the right way, it can be absolutely stunning. No one knows that better than Markus Reugels, the guy who took that amazing "world in a drop of water sho...

It's almost a truism that starter smartphones have poor cameras that struggle just to get pristine photos in broad daylight, let alone dim interiors. Thankfully, OmniVision's new OV5645 sensor could lead newcomers out of...

Sure, traipsing about the lunar surface is all fun and games when you've got a gold club and a flag for planting but if you're there to work, those puffy, sausage-fingered space suits are more hindrance than help. MoreÂ...

I'm generally resistant to treating a work blog as a diary, but after some kind inquiries from readers about low output lately: I went down with a chest/lung infection at the end of September, which has been why you have...

Hurricane Sandy may have put the kibosh on Google's gala in New York City, but it's not stopping the company from taking the wraps off of its latest pure Android phone. LG's Nexus 4 is finally official, after a cavalcade...

With the East Coast facing hurricane Sandy, one American university research team has built a “wall of wind” to help simulate -- and hopefully prevent -- a hurricane's destruction.

Fondletop shindig chaos in Beijing Vid  The big launch of Microsoft’s Surface slab got off to an inauspicious start in Beijing after an elderly couple invaded the stage in an attempt to halt proceedings.…

The first book ever purchased on Amazon has been finally revealed. John Wainwright from California purchased 'Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter on...

In case you hadn't heard the hype, there is a dedicated community of iPhone photographers around the globe. Well, Mashable discovered Android users can definitely hold their own with a camera phone. Flickr groups such as...

The mobile ad network is reportedly doing so due to low uptake of mobile phone-based marketing, despite the rising telephony penetration in those markets.

If you live in an area likely to be affected by Hurricane Sandy’s high winds and flooding, Google is providing a crisis map to help you prepare for the impact. As mentioned by Engadget, the map provides separate l...

We know tomorrow's Windows Phone 8 event will finally answer all of those burning mysteries that we've been yearning to hear more about since Microsoft first announced the new OS in June. After all, the company has kept ...

Back in June, I wrote about a startup called FastPay, which offers credit lines to digital media companies. At the time, CEO and founder Jed Simon pitched the service as an alternative to venture capital. Well, a couple ...

Ok, so this app made me feel really dirty when I downloaded it. It's called Badabing! and it basically goes through your friends' photos on Facebook to pull out the ones of them at the pool or beach. In other words, we'r...

Tech to predict and prevent crime before it happens

Microsoft's heavy schedule of launches and events this month, including the Windows 8 and Surface events in New York last week and its Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco on Monday, is set to reach its end with the Bu...

Silicon Valley isn’t letting Hurricane Sandy get in the way big tech announcements today. On the heels of Google and Microsoft’s big product launches this afternoon, Apple has just announced a big executive...

Google had already yanked the "In Stock" status from its Nexus Q as we awaited a re-envisioning of its purpose, but today's Nexus launch is making it ever clearer that we may never hear from the bizarre orb again. Launch...

Riverbed Technology said on Monday that it planned to buy Opnet Technologies for $993.3 million in cash and stock, bolstering its business in optimizing software on corporate networks.

Microsoft is going all out in an attempt to push customers to its new Windows Phone 8 operating system. All it has to do is convince people the platform is better than Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Easy, right?

Google unveiled the Nexus 10 today, its first 10-inch Nexus device. The new tablet runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Google's latest mobile operating system, and comes with some of the most cutting edge hardware ever seen in ...

Users uploading 10 pics per second related to the Frankenstorm, from the silly to the downright scary. [Read more]