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The iconic TI-84 calculator's stark grayscale is giving way to a color screen, at least in one new model. A forum member at Cemetech posted a shot of a "TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition," which includes a color screen similar...

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — this one was recorded on location in Orlando at the Gartner Symposium late last month. It's the bleeding edge of LTE productio...

Facebook has just launched relationship and friendship pages in the Timeline layout. For some, these pages may seem like sweet pictorials of time spent together, but others may feel the pages cross the privacy line.

Once venerable names in consumer electronics such as Sony, Panasonic, and Sharp have been besieged by competition from rivals in the U.S., South Korea and, increasingly, China. [Read more]

It's not quite as cool as working next to other startups on a boat in international waters, but when it comes to appealing settings in which to build a business, the Rocky Mountains aren't half bad. Founded in Boulder in...

A cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice being worked on could extend the productivity suite to mobile devices.

NASA's Nicholas Skytland explains how NASA had to build its own big data capabilities and how it's dealing with the enormous data sets from space missions.

No matter how often you watch Mad Men, it ain't always booze, sex and cigarettes when it comes to advertising because of the brain numb clients. They always have ridiculous requests like making the Vikings nicer or makin...

Our friends at Wired have a great gallery of forgotten and/or failed Apple products. Do you remember iPod socks? The QuickTake camera? What about the iPod Hi-Fi and Apple Bluetooth Headset? Yeah, it's chock full of awkwa...

CIA Director David Petraeus announced his resignation today after just under a year and a half on the job. Petraeus, also a highly-decorated Army general who came to the public spotlight during the Iraq War in 2003, cite...

The neurosurgeons of tomorrow can hone some of the necessary skills on iPads thanks to a new training app called VCath. More About: ipad app, medical science, medical-students, neuroscience

Investors express concern that Google's SQL database play will impact Oracle's ability to grow its database business. IBM and SAP may also feel the effects.

The Onion's TED parody series strikes again, this time with a savvy exploration of the biggest rock on Earth. And if that's not big enough for you? My friends, don't worry. We'll just bring a bigger rock from space to Ea...

'Cosmo the God,' signing off A 15-year-old hacker convicted of multiple felonies was handed an unusual sentence by a Long Beach, California juvenile court on Wednesday, one that will see him all but banned from the inter...

3D printing is reshaping the way we think about manufacturing and prototyping, and now NASA is using a version of the technique to build the next generation of rockets. The process, known as "selective laser melting," us...

Six years ago, brothers Hank and John Green took their relationship to a new level by ceasing all textual communication for one year. On Jan. 1, 2007, Hank posted the first video blog to the VlogBrothers YouTube channel,...

If your Mac has two GPUs then you can set it to use the lower-power one to save energy; however, sometimes that's not enough. [Read more]

The cover of ShortList, a weekly men's magazine in the UK, took on a uniquely interactive quality this week thanks to Blippar. Using Blippar's augmented reality app for iPhone or Android devices, readers can scan the arc...

Very large messages sent through Facebook's chat client can make applications and devices crash in a form of denial-of-service attack, a security researcher has discovered.

Tired of your phone's tiny on-screen keyboard, but don't want to carry around an accessory to type on? This experimental app by a Swiss student lets you type using nothing but the surface of a table.

For the longest time Just Born, the maker of Peeps, has been on the forefront of novelty seasonal marshmallow technology. But the company's monopoly ends now, here, with a mug-friendly Frosty marshmallow. More »

This week, California rolls out the heavy artillery in its attack on climate change with a program called “cap-and-trade.” It’s like a stock exchange for carbon emissions, where the state’s bigg...