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A few years ago, when I was going back and forth to India for work, I’d routinely carry with me the eye prescriptions and a few old frames for some of my family members in the States. They didn’t want to pa...

You remember The Most Useless machine, right? The one that encapsulates our entire interaction with technology by boiling it down to a zero-sum back and forth that ends in a meltdown? Well here's its big brother. More�...

No matter the occassion, fireworks are always festive. Usually you'll launch them from a boat, or the ground, or maybe for your back porch, but for the Taunggyi Fire Balloon Festival, they're launched from a hot-air ball...

Flickr has a Christmas gift for all of you disgruntled Instagram users: three free months of its Pro service. While each month of Pro is worth just over $2 (or $24.95 per year), the offer still has its perks. You don't n...

My desktop and inbox are littered with items from across 2012. Here is a 3-dot list, my Dozen Shades of Mac and iOs rants that I hope you may find interesting here at year's end. (First of two parts)

Right on the heels of the kerfuffle over Instagram's privacy policy, food journaling and discovery app Burpple has released its new Burpple Camera, which features six filters (named Tapas, Loco Moco, Tiramisu, Teriyaki, ...

We’re not sure how many punk rock fans moonlight as photographers (or the other way around), but those who are may find the new CamCuff a tempting camera accessory. It’s a fashion accessory wrist cuff that ...

When Bret Taylor announced last June that he would be leaving his role as CTO of Facebook to work on a startup with another ex-Googler, Kevin Gibbs, little else was divulged about what that project would be – e...

Today, if Santa Claus solely relied on snail mail to communicate, things would never get done in time. That is why he sticks to texting when it comes to quick conversations. But ho, ho, hold the phone. Unfortunately, mos...

Color-composite of Dione made from raw Cassini images acquired on Dec. 23, 2012. (NASA/JPL/SSI. Composite by J. Major.) Although made mostly of ice and rock, Saturn’s moon Dione (pronounced dee-oh-nee) does have s...

Mobile health is on the upswing but, to date, consumers have mostly gravitated to apps for fitness tracking and general wellness. In 2013, however, the field could make its biggest strides yet in the actual delivery of h...

Last week we shared a guest post by photographer Martin Legeer on how he built a Matrix-style bullet-time camera rig using 50 Canon DSLRs. Shortly afterward, Greek photographer Theodoros Tziatzios of Real Creations sent ...

One of the principal things that’s new about Nintendo’s new Wii U gaming console is its new WiiTV feature. WiiTV wasn’t quite ready when the console shipped last month, though — and even the v...

By Dan Seifert and Andrew Webster Traditionally, the holidays are for family. For many people, it’s a chance to see family members that may live a great distance away, spend time with new in-laws or new arrivals, ...

At the giant electronics convention, CES 2011, Samsung showed off their flexible AMOLED displays to great fanfare. Soon after, rumors ran rampant flexible displays would be available in 2012. The year brought many ...

Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications - some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple's App Store and Google Play. And yet, we're ...

When we started talking about cloud computing five years ago, it meant one thing: Services such as Amazon or Salesforce that customers could self-provision over the Internet and pay as they go. That’s what we call...

Not sure that pushing out OS updates on Christmas Eve is the wisest of moves, but we're not going to knock them either. HTC's following in Motorola's footsteps today, pushing out the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update for t...

You might remember that we hooked with Google last week and set up some giveaways for Nexus 7 tablets and Google Play gift cards. That's the kind of awesome stuff we do around these parts, and spreading the Android love ...

Launching a startup is tough, but moving past start-up and into phase two can be even tougher. More About: features, mashable, open forum, startup growth

A coming version of Google Chrome on Windows is going to prevent extensions that don't come from the official Chrome store from quietly installing without your say-so. [Read more]

Feeling that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 could use some more grunt? There's a chance you'll get your wish. An unannounced Galaxy Note GT-N5100 has popped up in benchmark scores with what looks to be a 1.6GHz Exynos 4412, ...