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Cheery piano music and then *drop* DUBSTEP BOW WAH KEKEKEKE CHIGGCHIGGCHIGG BADOOM chop your stupid hand off music. It's kind of hilarious to see the two tablets (and its ad strategy) next to each other, no? Kind of like...

Until SSDs get big and cheap, hybrid disk drives—which combine a traditional high-capacity hard drive with speedy solid state memory—are a great compromise. Particularly now that Singapore's Data Storage In...

In a ridiculous fire story that even firefighters couldn't believe, a vodka bottle acted as a magnifying glass for sunlight to burn through a liquor store. Seriously. More »

The Geek Picture of the Day is the world warrior.

Not only did Kim Dotcom's Megaupload reboot get its domain name seized by officials in Gabon, it seems ‘real pirates' have taken offence to Dotcom, and have hacked his domain to redirect to a group calling themselv...

Samsung's experiment with a Ghost Recon SSD bundle must have been a hit with gamers, since it's coming back for a second round the very same year. The upgrade-minded buying 128GB, 256GB or 512GB versions of the SSD 840 P...

Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload's new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn't look likely because Me.ga has already been ...

Bobcats that take up residence in urban areas not only share turf with humans but also diseases, a new study shows.

LED lights are more energy efficient than fluorescents, but they're also more expensive. And for commercial buildings, a higher upfront cost -- even if it makes a return on investment over time -- can be hard to overcome...

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard this afternoon reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter.

Bob Dylan took to his Facebook page for the first time ever to say he was right about his prediction that President Barack Obama would be re-elected. More About: Facebook, Social Media

Maybe we should call this Windows NR, for “Not Really.” At the GigaOm Roadmap conference, which I attended in San Francisco this week, I met Danish tech writer Nicholas “Charbax” Charbonnier, who ...

According to a report by the Verge today, Microsoft is planning to release Office for the iPhone, iPad and Android in early 2013. Relying on inside sources, the Verge reports that Office Mobile will be offered as free...

The former Democratic representative who fell foul of a Twitter scandal offers a tentative tweet. The currently emotional Donald Trump immediately tweets back calling him a "pervert." [Read more]

We've seen photos of New York's beloved L train being drained of flood water left over from Hurricane Sandy. Now the MTA has released video footage of workers toiling away to get the beleaguered line back up and running....

Qualcomm shares are trading sharply higher in late trading Wednesday on better-than-expected results for the company's fiscal fourth quarter ended September 30, a clear beneficiary of the continued rapid growth of the mo...

Is that a hashtag on Nicole Scherzinger's hips? CuteCircuit's haute couture gown for the social-networking celeb makes its debut at a launch party for U.K. 4G mobile network EE. [Read more]

We're very lucky at TechCrunch to get some really interesting and brilliant visitors. When I step foot into the office, I never know who's going to show up next. Today, we had a great group of folks come in that are part...

In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away th...

A jaw-dropping picture of the planet Saturn was recently released by NASA's Cassini probe orbiting the ringed giant. The black-and-white photo shows the gas giant tilted, with its iconic rings draping striking shadows ag...

The first thing we noticed about Nintendo's next console when we last got our hands on it was the length -- the Wii U is Nintendo's longest console yet. Sure, sure, there's a tablet controller and HD graphics and yadda y...

New York City officials and Airbnb said Wednesday they had struck a partnership to help connect victims of Hurricane Sandy with free short-term housing. Airbnb,...