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Emerging out of stealth mode today, San Francisco-based startup BuyVia is throwing its hat into the ring as another shopping service and mobile app designed for price comparisons. The company is predominantly focus...

A competitor to the Google Glass headset will be on display at CES 2013, Jawbone Up is back from the dead, and retailers fight showrooming with in-store apps. [Read more]

While the big data buzz is making the headlines, it's also fast-becoming a genuine force in deriving strategic insight and actionable business intelligence from social media, as we see in each of these compelling case ex...

Yeah, it's absolutely an ad for Red Bull but so what. This extreme athlete-powered Rube Goldberg 'machine' is even better than the free running machine they pulled off a month ago. Watch the entire thing and you won't be...

The Internet is not, as Thoreau said of the telegraph, "an improved means to an unimproved end." Communication online has a very specific form that no one is exempt from.

Wrapped up in the Sony handheld's version 2.0 update, the PlayStation Vita is finally getting PS Plus. Detailing the offering for European users, the subscription-based service will add four free games per month, with th...

Life's biggest tease: endless amounts of beer without a bottle opener in sight. What do you do? Household Hackers has 6 different ways to open the beer without an opener and they all work really well. More »

In a touchingly discomforting ad for a solid-state drive, Samsung employs Laina, the online celebrity who once expressed her pathological affection for Justin Bieber. [Read more]

Good news for fans of Android alternatives: Google's just added binaries for Jelly Bean 4.2 to AOSP. Up until now, only the Nexus 10 and Nexus 4 had been privy to the company's latest OS version bump, but with the presen...

We didn't beat around the bush when calling the original Nexus 7 the best tablet your hard-earned $200 could buy, but those who wanted one with built-in mobile data were sadly left out in the cold. Today, Google's remedy...

Boarding a plane is like joining an assault course that demands you trample old people and bat small children out of the way you with your bare fists. Possibly. But perhaps not for much longer, because a Chinese mathemat...

Today's the day the Nexus 4 goes on sale, but if you're a Galaxy Nexus owner not quite ready to upgrade to Google's latest flagship phone, don't worry — there's still something to look forward to. We're seeing evi...

Totally bona-fide scientific research Saucy young college girls in the States are indulging in "casual, no-strings-attached sexual encounters" at such a rate that one needs a little lie down just after thinking about it,...

For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the world’s 130 million or so unique books. While the pace of new additions to the Google Books initiative has been slowing down, members of the team...

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows has posted Steven Sinofsky's full letter to Microsoft employees announcing his departure. Sinofsky says that, following the Windows 8 and Surface launch, he has "decided to leave the...

A year ago, some engineers and designers at Mozilla released the 1.0 version of a JavaScript library called Popcorn that let web authors remix and extend web video in some new and exciting ways. Well, at this past weeken...

Tracking the thousands of tiny objects cluttering up Earth's orbit is becoming an expensive proposition for the military. To save money and improve their coverage, they're soliciting help from amateur astronomers worldwi...

Today photo sharing app Tracks has announced version 2.0 of its website. New features include the ability to create photo tracks via the web. In other words, Tracks just opened itself up to the world wide web, allowing a...

Microsoft has released launch figures for Halo 4, and it's safe to say the company is happy with its performance so far. The latest entry in the flagship Xbox franchise made $220 million worldwide in its first 24 hours o...

Google has historically been known for encouraging creativity in its employees by letting them devote time towards personal projects, and it appears Apple has adopted a similar philosophy. The Wall Street Journal is repo...

CERN researchers said on Monday they have spotted a particle reshaping into two others in their Large Hadron Collider, a breakthrough that could be crucial in exploring physics frontiers once the realm of science fiction...

An electrode cap and computer program can translate brain signals into commands for a humanoid robot. Researchers in Japan are using a brain-machine interface to control the actions of a humanoid robot. The goal is to al...