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If you still think MySQL is too entrenched to be moved from its spot as the number one, open-source DBMS, you might to look at what Wikipedia is doing.

A leaked slide, published by Chip Hell, purports to show the specs of NVIDIA's next high-power mobile processors—and if the leak's accurate, it looks like NVIDIA is more than catching up with the competition. More...

Singapore-based pest extermination firm is in the midst of adopting public cloud services for a common operations system to eliminate duplicate processes and help overcome labor crunch.

Last year, Google published five digitized and high-res manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, as part of a collaboration with the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Now, the company is taking its historical initiative even fur...

Even with a growing number of private spacefaring companies, leaving Earth remains the province of government-sponsored astronauts, wealthy tourists, or big-name entrepreneurs. Copenhagen Suborbital, a group of about 20 ...

Has a papyrus from the time of the pharaohs exposed the ghoulish habits of the baleful Demon Star? Stephen Battersby investigates (full text available to subscribers)

While Zynga has had high-profile struggles to adapt to the rapid growth of mobile gaming, Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of the Social Gaming Network, said he's found a solution — MasterKey, his company's just-...

The search giant has big plans for next year. Here are some big things we're expecting, from Nexus to Kurzweil to Google Glass. [Read more]

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The photo sharing service Instagram has asserted its right to sell its users' photos. In an update to its terms of service, the Facebook-owned site...

Samsung today announced the Galaxy Grand — a five-inch Android smartphone apparently designed for mid-range consumers. Powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, the Galaxy Grand runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and...

The world's largest manufacturer is looking to locally-developed 3D printing tech to help improve efficiency among domestic production houses, but R&D and application efforts need to accelerate.

The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Yog One-Liner Pitch: An app that conn...

Though holiday parties are dressed up in festivity and good spirits and cold weather, they're still freaking parties. And parties, filled with people of the human race, all end up the same way. This animated short about ...

Check this out and get in the groove to enjoy some really cool fun from NASA NASA interns and NASA astronauts have joined forces to create a very humorous and entertaining music video parody of the “Gangnam Styleâ...

Apple has caught a lot of flak for the dearth of local data in its iOS mapping application, but that could get measurably better if rumors of a partnership with Foursquare Labs are true. According to The Wall Street Jour...

When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well. Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewh...

Yes. Pretty much anything you can pass during intercourse can also be passed during oral sex. Herpes? Yes. Chalmydia and gonorrhea? Yes. (They're both bacterial and can be cured with antibiotics, but there are more and m...

Lasers, Arudinos, cats doing funny things -- here's a student project custom built for the internet age. We popped by the Winter Show at NYU's ITP school to check out a new batch of works exploring the intersection betwe...

By Tyler Gray This story originally appeared at Fast Company. Facebook user Peter Thoeny brings this to our attention. The targeted ad appears next to...

Power Instagrammer John de Guzman says the devoted online community is outraged over the updated Terms of Service. Here's why Instagram may lose some of its most active users. More About: instagram, photography, privacy,...

After blowing its first chance to orbit Venus two years ago, Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft is ready for a comeback in 2015, mission scientists say.