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The video above is only 44 seconds long, but we’ll bet it’ll take up at least a minute and a half of your time — you’ll just have to watch it twice. It was created by British psychological pro...

Back in 2008, Jonathan Nelson was working as an ER nurse and tinkering on code at home in his spare time. As someone who wasn't a full-time engineer, he had a hankering to get out of the house and rub elbows with other t...

Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred (acquired ...

Some express their love for a show or movie by sharing it with others, some draw their favorite characters or write fanfiction, and artist Tim Prince creates intricate sculptures using animal bones. This Facehugger sculp...

LROC view looking obliquely of the south rim of Aristarchus from the west (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) Flying over at an altitude of 135 km, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this lovely oblique...

Popular photo site denies being a security threat and says it's trying to resolve the situation with Google. [Read more]

Every weekday, What's Trending brings you the best that YouTube has to offer. Now that we're wrapping up an unbelievable year in Internet history, we're serving up a definitive guide to the 20 biggest, most incredible an...

Test your knowledge of the year's most stimulating stories How much do you remember about what really mattered in 2012? You're about to find out.…

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Neil Armstrong's brother tells the BBC that he gave the late astronaut feedback on his history-making speech months before it was uttered on the moon.

Popular Twitter-based photo service TwitPic is currently being blocked by Google's malware checker. Upon trying to access TwitPic.com, the service's Twitter page, or any Twitter page containing a TwitPic, users are prese...

The use of electronics in flight is a contentious subject. Well, contentious in that the FAA doesn't want you to do it whereas pretty much everyone else thinks it's probably OK. There is a danger though, according to the...

A video of what is reportedly the Russian plane crash that killed five people in Moscow Saturday, has surfaced on YouTube. In the 30-second video, captured on a dashboard camera, two cars are hit by debris from the airli...

Not as fast as a Japanese train Readers may wish to skip to the video, below, if they’re too holidayed to want to read too many words. For the rest: a group of Aoyama Gakuin University researchers has demonstrated...

PC makers who were hoping for Windows 8 to kick off a surge in sales have been disappointed. Apparently, no one climbed on Santa's lap and asked for a new PC. The real question now is whether the industry can grind out a...

Zero-day vulnerability affects versions of the Web browser from IE 6 through IE 8 but not later versions, the company says in a security advisory. [Read more]

It’s CrunchWeek time, wherein a few of us writers turn on the TechCrunch TV cameras and shoot the breeze about some of the past week’s most interesting stories. This week, we decided to reflect on some of t...

With Christmas a few days past, you've probably gotten a good chance to get familiar with whatever gadgets you may have gotten as gifts. Maybe you got a new iPad Mini, or a Nexus 7. Maybe it was a new phone, or even a ne...

RIM's January unveiling isn't going anywhere without federal approval, and it seems the FCC is happy to oblige. Regulators put an unnamed BlackBerry device with a RFF91LW model number through the standard tests, giving i...

Looks like the Christmas wish of our own East Coast editor John Biggs just came true. Hackulous, the company behind the popular (and controversial) app Installous which let people easily download pirated apps on jailbrok...

Find a Baby There's got to be one crawling around somewhere. What's cuter than kissing a baby's fat cheek? Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Click here to view this gallery. Do you find yourself in a panic every New Year...

Pakistan's government lifted its three-month ban on YouTube yesterday, only to completely reinstate the block just three minutes later, according to The New York Times. The ban was first implemented in mid-September, in ...

Could 2013 be the year of the TV for the high-tech industry? With Apple chomping at the bit to revolutionize TV and Google renewing its efforts in the market, now Intel appears to have its ducks in a row to launch its ow...