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You know, in case you're trying to conceal your location (or a murder suspect's). John McAfee--anti-virus pioneer, "person of interest" in Belize murder investigation, and launcher of increasingly bizarre media stories--...

Technology is about making and using cool new things that enrich our lives. But technology is also about using idiotic, tired words that mean next to nothing, designed to confuse us into wasting money. Here are the year'...

Individuals and micro businesses hoping to open a small Google Apps account for free will find that, from today, they will have to pay.

Google, the word not the company, has become such a common word for anyone who uses a computer (other than the yahoos who still use Yahoo, I guess) that it's surprising to learn that other languages have a different word...

Ladybugs have returned to the Oakland Hills and Redwood Regional Park. Find out why they're here and how you can help track ladybugs in your own yard or neighborhood.

The Internet's favorite file format is an old friend at this point, having just celebrated its 25th birthday. The GIF -- an acronym from Graphics Interchange Format -- lived it up this year, even scoring the coveted hono...

Tommy Edison, the wonderful blind film critic who once showed us how he used an iPhone, has a new video describing something nearly impossible for blind people to understand: color. What's great is that even though Ediso...

The World Wildlife Fund plans to use a $5m grant from Google for high-tech anti-poaching efforts: everything from camera-equipped drones to next-generation animal tags that send text messages with critical information to...

For over 40 years, the ‘Blue Marble’ images of Earth taken from space have provided a new perspective of our planet, and the sometimes life-altering experience of such views was described in Frank Whiteâ€...

Murdoch's tablet publication, "The Daily," is closing, but another app rises in Phoenix, combining the power of local media with the creativity of the iPad. [Read more]

Selfies are hilarious photographs people take of themselves. It's a close cousin to the MySpace mirror shot and birthed from the proliferation of smartphones and point and shoots and really, there's nothing more awkward ...

Apple has had to take security more seriously when a larger user base and the cloud have opened up greater risks. Thanks to a just-discovered hire, we now know 1 Infinite Loop isn't messing around. While many of us were ...

I occasionally mutter a version of this inane line: "I've never had to use physics, chemistry, or geometry in a job." It's a common, if benighted, refrain that has the ring of seeming truth. Conventional wisdom says that...

Activist and free software guru Richard Stallman on Friday hammered Ubuntu for including what he termed spyware in new versions of the popular open-source operating system and urged GNU and Linuxusers to avoid the distri...

Surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital have successfully implanted a deep brain stimulation device with hopes to slow the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, one of the first operations of its kind for the United Stat...

Facebook is doing away with the "subscribe" buttons on its site and replacing them with "follow" buttons — but nothing's really changing, except maybe your feelings of self-worth.

As potential cord-cutters mull the possibility of dropping pay TV, live sports on channels like ESPN have become a point of frustration, both for people who can find almost everything but sports online and for non-fans w...

The slow process of updating the rules that dictate when and if you can use electronic devices on airplanes is inching along, with one major agency urging more freedom to use tablets, e-readers and other gadgets.

Steve Jobs would probably approve of this iPhone dock's elegant design simplicity and logical functionality. More About: apple, kickstarter

Gone are the days when you kept all your contacts in one place. Nowadays they're probably spread out across not only your address book, but also your social networks. Cobook for iOS puts your local and social-network con...

A Pennsylvania newspaper is using Pinterest to post mug shots and find people wanted by police officials. More About: crime, pinterest

Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with the detritus of industrialization. There's no doubt that humans have radically reshaped the planet, and th...