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Tomorrow, you could spend six hours cooking a stuffed 18-pound turkey for a bunch of ungrateful family members. Ugh but so much waiting—not to mention the tedious preparation. Instead, spend considerably less time...

Looking to browse with the full weight of your 64-bit hardware? Well, if you're a Firefox and Windows user, you're going to have to look elsewhere, as Mozilla has announced it's closing the development of Firefox for the...

Following the arrival of Barnes & Noble's e-reader products in the UK, today's the day that the company's tablets follow suit. The Nook HD and HD+ are a pair of tasty little high-definition tablets, which can be snagged ...

Evan Roth's Angry Birds All Levels uses black ink on tracing paper to show the gestures required to complete each level of the popular bird-flinging game. Roth placed the paper over his iPhone to capture each swipe and t...

Last week, Priceline.com acquired Kayak for $1.8 billion. That’s more than twice what Google paid for ITA back in 2010. Why did Priceline make this move? And why now? Priceline acquired Kayak for $40 a share, abou...

Skeuomorphism is a dirty word in iOS and OS X app design, but where exactly does it come from, and what makes a skeuomorphic design succeed or fail? Christopher Downer of Realmac Software has laid out what defines skeuom...

Spearing mantis shrimp hide in their burrows and wait for an unsuspecting creature to come along. Then, in the blink of an eye, they spear it with their long claws, like an underwater archer. How do they spear their prey...

Microsoft appears to be extending its product base by developing a set-top box-themed Xbox that plays only casual games.

Violet Blue visited Speck Products to go hands-on with its phone and tablet cases, and came back with her holiday hotlist.

Australian startups live in a smaller ecosystem, receive less funding, don't put their hands up for funding, and don't think big. So how can they survive compared to Silicon Valley giants?

Thanksgiving means turkey. Thanksgiving means football. Thanksgiving also means a helluva lot of people taking a helluva lot of flights to get home the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to Flightradar24.com, this ...

Stop-motion videos are always a good time, even if it's just a stick figure dancing in a flip book. So imagine how fun a stop-motion video made with velcro (yes, velcro) is. It's a freaking mind trip. More »

One of the really interesting things about Google Maps is that there's a huge, thriving community of people who love to help make the product better. Basically, when a road closes, or something is incorrect, there are to...

Nearly a year after bringing indoor maps to its Android platform, Google is announcing the same service for the web version of Maps. The company has just flipped the switch on floor plans for about 10,000 locations world...

Designed for neat freaks, the obsessive compulsive, or anyone tired of borrowed gear not returning to where it belongs, these simple location marking stickers serve as the perfect reminder as to where your stuff goes. Mo...

Yet another app sale for the Thanksgiving / Black Friday weekend is SwiftKey. Both smartphone and tablet versions of the custom Android keyboard are half off - $1.99 a pop.  For those unfamiliar, SwiftKey is a high...

Plop. A pile of vibrantly colorful pages lands on the doorstep, easily weighing a pound or more. Calling it a "newspaper" doesn't actually seem to do it justice. It's a time-tested tradition For millions of Americans, th...

Amy Kirby Streger Crowd smurfin'. Click here to view this gallery. This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for your photo submissions of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Many Mashable readers -- some up close and personal, ...

Popular Science has given Google Now its "Innovation of the Year" award, putting it alongside past winners like the Large Hadron Collider, the Toyota Prius and the Mars Curiosity Rover. It's august company to be sure, an...

Verizon's HTC Droid DNA may have already been released (and reviewed), but mystery still surrounds the possibility of an international version of the phone. Earlier leaks have referred to it as the "DLX" or "Deluxe," tho...

It won't arrive in time if you find yourself lacking company and a hot meal today, but you can ensure the same thing doesn't happen at Christmas with this mildly depressing self-heating Dinner in a Can. More »

Scroll through your Instagram feed today and you won’t be able to avoid the photos and #thanksgiving #turkey #stuffing hashtags. Yes, the Instagramming masses have taken to the popular app to share photos of the f...