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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...

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.

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. We've got a mixed bag this week....

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...

A survey of social media experts says President Obama is the most influential social media person of 2012. Mitt Romney came last. The same survey says politicians are the least influential people in social media. Um? [Re...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aurora over Komagfjord, Norway (northern end of Scandinavia, 70°N). Credit and Copyright: Thierry Legault. Used by permission One of our favorite astrophotographers, Thierry Legault from France, took a trip to Finland...

Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offers. The fear factor ...