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Earlier this week, Christopher Nolan sat down with film critic Scott Foundas and talked Batman. A transcript of the interview has now been published by Foundas at Film Comment and it makes for an illuminating read. Nolan...

It seems the rumors of e-ink based displays' imminent death at the hands of tablets were greatly exaggerated. Despite a glut of portable color screen devices now on the market, e-book readers are more popular than ever, ...

You know when you watch a beer commercial or an ad about fruit or anything relating food and think, man, that looks absolutely delicious? And then when you go to the market to get that same exact food, it looks absolutel...

In a new book, authors from SOA Software outline the business basics of application programming interfaces.

Just because you're a small business doesn't mean you can't tap the benefits of big data, too.

AngelPad, the startup accelerator program founded back in 2010 by ex-Googler and investor Thomas Korte, held its fifth ever Demo Day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters today. The twelve startups that comprised An...

Several years ago I first joined Twitter after a terrible customer experience at a retail store. After failing to find jeans in my size at there different locations of the same store, I gave up and purchased something el...

Take a step back and consider both the facilities and IT issues that marry you to your current environment

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, the mysterious, satirical website .gwbush.com appeared on the web. The criticisms of George W. Bush on it gained media attention worldwide, culminating in a mention by the President...

China's censors have innovative ways of stopping its citizens accessing banned websites, including poisoning internet servers (full text available to subscribers)

If you are considering which way to go on big data, ZDNet's big-data directory for Australia should help you on your way.

A genius dad invented something to make dad life easier: a flying, camera-equipped quadrocopter that could follow his kids to the school bus stop. That's right, a personal drone for his kids. Genius, I say. Genius! More�...

What do you think of photographers in real life? Guys and girls with awesome jobs? Creepy paparazzi who sell their soul to TMZ? Truth tellers? Lighting obsessed? Here is how movies portray photographers. More »

Facebook and Zynga revamped terms of a years-old partnership that was widely viewed as giving Zynga preferential treatment on the world's No.1 online social network, according to regulatory filings from the two companies...

Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter and Google+, social bookmarking site Pinterest has unveiled pages exclusively for businesses. If your company is new to Pinterest, you can sign up for a business account. I...

Android users everywhere are all talking about Ingress. It's a cool location based MMO sci-fi game where you secure portals to help alter the course of human history. The back story is all at the Niantic Project we...

Adobe Flash: Can't live with it, can't live without it, at least for iOS users. But iPhone lovers now have a Flash alternative. More About: Apple iPhone 5, adobe flash, iphone

I implore you to ask yourself, "am I fully aware of what my actions mean?" and if not then please try and make sense of the terms and conditions of the numerous social networks you belong to.

NEW YORK -- A new survey finds that digital video recorders are now in more than half of all U.S. homes that subscribe to cable...

Rockmelt's recently released iPad app only offered signup through Facebook and Twitter, leading 50 percent of users not to sign in at all. So today it followed Pinterest and Spotify by moving away from social-only ...

You probably knew that it's impossible to pull apart two phonebooks put together with interleaving pages. But did you know that the bond—caused by the mechanical friction of the interleaving pages—is so str...

By any measure, Michael Jackson's Thriller was an unbelievable success — but at the time of its release, that success was far from assured. Between the death of popular AM radio, the backlash of disco that made DJ...