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Each year, the president picks a national turkey. This year, President Obama is letting Facebook users choose between Cobbler and Gobbler. But don't worry, the loser won't be anyone's dinner. [Read more]

(Reuters) - A federal jury convicted a New York man on Tuesday of hacking into AT&T Inc servers and stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 Apple Inc iPad users, a U.S. attorney in New Jerse...

If brands won social awards, then National Amusements, Inc., a Viacom company, would own the title of most powerful social business. The index ranking, according to Dachis Group, “Analyzes the effectiveness of stra...

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It's the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein "that functions as a molecular ...

Today, DirecTV finally unveiled pricing for its 12Mbps satellite broadband service geared toward rural customers who don't have easy access to fiber or cable. This follows ViaSat's earlier announcement of its Exede satel...

Nearly a year after Mazda announced its i-ELOOP regenerative braking technology, the company has finally launched a car that implements it: the 2013 Mazda Atenza. Known as the 2014 Mazda 6 in the US, both sedan and wagon...

Remember all the hard work you put into sand castles as a little kid? Crouching, scooping and shaping. It was tough! And it was always for naught because the stupid ocean would eventually swallow your castles whole and w...

Eternal September is now somewhat of an antiquated term, but its relevance as a concept is nonetheless alive and kicking on the internet today. Once upon a time, September was the month when a whole new group of individu...

It's an Asus Padfone 2. But, it's an Asus Padfone 2 in white. That's really all there is different here, but as a series of press shots obtained by VR-Zone show, there's a white version of Asus' phone/tablet combination ...

It's not a question of either/or with SOA and REST. It's a matter of how the two design approaches can be brought together.

This comedic infomercial features big-name sports starts pitching "Tweet Discreet," which magically turns potential Twitter gaffes into innocuous posts. More About: Sports, Watercooler

If you think music repeats itself and that some songs sound exactly the freaking same, there could be a reason for that (well, other than piss poor artists being gobbled up by the machine): there's a finite limitation on...

If you feel like you're being watched when you're shopping, you might be right. Some stores, like the ones owned by Benetton Group SpA, have set up EyeSee mannequins that have a camera embedded into one eye. It then feed...

500px, the Toronto-based startup known for its slick photo sharing site, has already come a long way toward being the darling of the digital photo buff set here in North America. In 2013, the company is setting its sight...

The old cliche trick for getting over stage fright is to imagine the audience naked. We like to imagine everyone naked. That's what this app is for—except it censors out all the dirty bits and pieces. More »

The 2012 holiday shopping season right around the corner, but it's not too late to make changes to your ecommerce site to take advantage of the holidays-even if budgets are tight or you have little in-house technical exp...

In a triumphant victory for the producers of Hoarders, the city of San Francisco gave developers the go-ahead on Tuesday to enter a trial run of 375 "micro-apartments." More »

Amid all the Black Friday frenzy, it's important to check in with wireless carriers because, at least in this country, they basically dominate cellphone sales. Translation: If you are in the market for a phone — e...

Sparrow for iPhone may be considered abandonware at this point, but its developers did promise to update it for the iPhone 5's larger display, and today they did just that. The updated version of the email client now tak...

Sorry, democracy fans. The world's largest virtual nation, a billion citizens strong, just officially became an oligarchy. You probably weren't even aware of it, but until Wednesday, you had voting rights on Facebook. Th...

A few months after the Sept. 11 attacks, when crippled phone networks thwarted communications across New York City, Congress called for the creation of what...

Many employees will spend a portion of their day hunting for bargains on the Monday following Thanksgiving weekend, and companies should prepare for the increased security risks, experts say. The potential damage on Cybe...