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New Media Rights man on the 50 shades of grey in IP debate Sysdmin blog  A new intellectual property rights organisation has popped up in the United States called New Media Rights. New Media Rights strikes a different...

Facebook has reclaimed the top spot of best place to work in the U.S., according to Glassdoor's Employee Choice Awards, and it's got perks even for interns. Facebook's interns make between $5,600 and $6,300 per month -- ...

Last week The University of Chicago was the recipient of a mysterious package addressed to Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr., otherwise known as archaeologist Indiana Jones. The school has no idea where it came from, how it go...

This beautiful alien landscape is right here on Earth: a never-ending sea of ice flowers quietly floating over a thinly frozen sea. These strange ice structures are very rich in salt and bacteria—and very hard to ...

The sports network's college football unit is teaming with Ford and Twitter to bring clips of the college bowl games to a tweet near you. [Read more]

Ever want to play cards and don't have a deck? A new app called Bold Poker turns your mobile devices into playing cards. More About: Newsy, poker

Stephen Colbert has been promoting his new book recently, and as part of this he stopped by Google's New York office to sit down with chairman Eric Schmidt and participate in the company's Authors@Google speaker series.

The way that inaccurate news reports about a mass shooting in Connecticut filtered out through social media has brought up many of the same criticisms as Hurricane Sandy -- that social media isn't an appropriate forum fo...

Editor's note: Chris Potter is co-founder of ScreenLight, a cloud video collaboration service for video producers to review and approve video with their teams and clients. Google recently rolled out a number of enhanceme...

We all know that one of the biggest parts of keeping your accounts secure is not only using strong passwords, but also changing them frequently. But who really does that? How old are the passwords you've got in rotation?...

Feeling overworked? You're not alone. In fact, according to a vast majority of a recent survey's 1,915 U.S. respondents, overworking has become the norm in today's workplace. The survey, conducted by social project manag...

Interviewed by Eric Schmidt, Colbert is stunned to discover he can buy his own book through the great hydra that is Google. [Read more]

Last year, eight in ten holiday shoppers planned to give gift cards for the holidays. We bet the numbers will be even higher this year, and wonder if that changes how big a bag Santa will need. Comic by Mashable, Lance U...

Only 0.5 percent of the world's data is being analyzed, according to an IDC study that also identifies opportunities for companies that can protect and extract value from the massive amounts of data being generated daily...

Tumblr Is Down When Tumblr went down Wednesday evening, users flocked to Mashable to express their rage and disbelief. Click here to view this gallery. Where were you the day that Tumblr went down? Whether you were at ho...

I'm sorry children, but engaging in full-time writing has never paid my bills.

As part of a "winter cleaning," Google plans to drop support for its most powerful sync feature for customers of its free email services. What effect will this decision have on customers using the latest versions of Wind...

Apple has opened its new Third Street Promenade Apple Store in Santa Monica, CA. The store has the same design as the new Palo Alto location, with a slightly smaller implementation as the Upper West Side store in Manhatt...

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — reeled along with the rest of the world from the tragedy in Connecticut. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and vi...

Things in slow motion tend to be awesome-looking. Fire also tends to be awesome-looking. Put the two together and add a dash of extremely-dangerous-gasoline-flinging and you've got yourself a show. That's what the The Sl...

In the past, schools and cellphones didn't mix. Teachers saw them as a distraction, and many schools banned their use in the classroom. But in the wake of school shootings over the past 13 years, school districts are beg...