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Developers and players pour themselves into building up MMOs, but the games can't always support themselves, and then those worlds blink out. All too often, MMOs close but don't offer closure for the workers who spent so...

It seems like unless you've assembled a giant broadcast antenna in the middle of your house, or filled every room with a repeater, your Wi-Fi signal strength always sucks. Oh, except for that bizarre sweet spot in your b...

It's been official for a while now: iOS 6 Maps suck. Everyone from Tim Cook to my mother knows it, but now it's getting scary. Victoria Police are advising people not to use iOS 6 Maps due to safety concerns. What are th...

While Yahoo has had a tumultuous last few years, one unit that has consistently been at the top of the heap is its sports news division. At the same time, NBC Sports has been getting a boost -- even without the NHL's hel...

The company says that a host of new features will be available, including a new camera option, called Best Face. [Read more]

Some of these fake, Photoshopped Instagrams of dead rock stars—created by Brazilian designer Butcher Billy—are really good. My favorite are these two, Cash and Mercury, but there are more. More »

Forget 3D printed guns, Syrian opposition fighters are taking backyard weapons manufacture to the next level with a homemade tank. First reported by Russian Today (video below), the Sham II (which apparently gets its nam...

This week's apps are: Gmail, Fantastical, ACCC Shopper, Snapseed, NHSD, Carsales, Flight Specials, and Nexus 4 Stock Alert.

Each year, the great tech prankster Google hides tons of Easter Eggs in its products—from its search engine and email service to its Android operating system and Google Maps. And each year we try to find them all....

Whether you're upfront about it or firmly in the closet, the search data doesn't lie: we all have a pop culture crush. Which is why Microsoft's expanding Bing's snapshot pane, one of three columns within its revamped lay...

Previously only available for viewing at England's National Archives, the 1940 census which documented every single bomb dropped on London from October 7th 1940 to June 6th 1941 is now accessible via an interactive websi...

Hong Kong operator launches its mobile TV service in a bid to increase revenue from smartphone subscribers by boosting data traffic.

If you’re at all interested in the history of photography, Henry Fox Talbot is a pioneer that you need to be familiar with. Although French pioneer Louis Daguerre is often credited with being “the father of ...

A professional Mac site reports a bug named Time Machine Exclusion that blocks various volumes and drives from being backed up without the user's knowledge.

Big Blue says its silicon nanophotonics technology could have big data implications now that it can be used in standard semiconductor manufacturing processes.

The Harvard economics department has joined the "Call Me Maybe" parody craze, thanks to an administrator's idea and her 10-year-old son's editing skills. More About: Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen, Entertainment, Harvar...

If you want to enjoy some eye-popping infrared landscape photographs, look no further than the portfolio of French photographer David Keochkerian. He photographs gorgeous landscapes using an infrared sensitive camera, wh...

Pandora has fully launched in Australia and New Zealand, the only two places outside of the U.S. where the service is available in its entirety, with the addition of mobile access via iOS and Android apps today. Previous...

The chipmaker is putting more emphasis now on system-on-a-chip tech, which is used widely in smartphones and tablets, where the company's largely been absent. [Read more]

By stacking all major product releases at year's end, it leaves the whole rest of the calendar as a giant question mark. What new products will Apple introduce in the spring? Some evidence points to a six-month product c...

The Kindle Fire line of tablets is the latest set of electronics to grace GameStop store shelves in the US, the Texas company announced recently. From the baby 7-inch all the way to the larger 8.9-inch, the entire Fire l...

This past Friday, TED sent out a mass email to TEDx organizers, ominously titled "A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science." TED, which has become synonymous with "big ideas," is getting serioius about figh...