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Word 2013 brings a fair number of new featuresto the word-processing table, but one of the most welcome (and business-friendly) by far is the ability to edit PDFs. Previously, that capability would require Adobe Acrobat ...

We've all seen the destruction that tsunamis can cause. It doesn't play around. But back in 1944, the US military wanted to play around with tsunamis in hope of creating a man made tsunami bomb--basically setting off 10 ...

This is not a mile high club you want to be a part of. On a flight from Reykjavik, Iceland to JFK yesterday, a drunken passenger got so unruly that the flight crew had to restrain him. To his seat. With duct tape and zip...

Harman has joined several other companies in jumping the CES gun, announcing five new products it's bringing to the show. First up is the JBL Charge, a hardy Bluetooth speaker which promises an impressive 12 hours of tun...

On February 16th, 2010, Dylan Yount stood on a ledge outside his San Francisco apartment and jumped to his death. Bystanders covered the tragedy in real time across a variety of social media networks, and SF Weekly News ...

The "Great Firewall of China," designed to prevent its citizens from accessing some overseas content, has apparently undergone an upgrade. And some observers say this may not only be an effort to stop citizens from readi...

SmartRod has a bite-sensitive accelerometer. Just sit back and wait for the alarm to ring. Then reel 'em in.

The 2013 free game engine hasn't really gotten rolling yet from the holiday season, so this week we'll take a look at a few games reviewing the end of the year along with a few others that got lost in the holiday shuffle...

A U.S. judge gives the leader of the IMAGiNE file-sharing group a record prison term for camcording movies in the theater and distributing them on the Web.

The fine people at the Linux Foundation have started a little project that deserves some attention -- some tutorials teaching beginning Android programming. So far things are pretty basic, but the beginning is always the...

Fellow cat owners: ever caught your feline stealing jealous glances at your laptop? Wonder why they keep walking all over your keyboard? Turns out they're not trying to catch your attention or steal your lap heat. They j...

Tens of thousands of Mexicans wolfed down a 1.9-kilometer (1.2-mile) long king cake on Thursday, polishing it off in less than half-an-hour during the traditional...

Something never quite added up in the conventional model of solar system formation. It dictates that planets are formed from the accretion disc around a young star, but it also dictates that a star continues to feed off ...

What a powerful moment: AC Milan and Pro Patria walk off the field mid-match after fans direct racist abuse at Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng. More About: soccer, Sports

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While the Federal Trade Commission absolved Google of monopoly accusations earlier today for prioritizing its own products in search results, it's questionable whether the search giant can ever be considered a monopoly, ...

BuzzFeed has built the site from just a repository for animated cat GIFs into a substantial media entity, and just raised a new round of financing -- and Tumblr also has a fairly deep war-chest and dreams of expansion. A...

An 18-year-old in Oregon joked on Facebook about driving drunk and getting in a hit-and-run accident, then was arrested after "friends" saw the posting and reported it to police. No one was injured, thankfully, but two c...

Are you a fan of @KimJongNumberUn, @AngiesRightLeg or @ThePresObama? Well, a new bill in Arizona could make the creation of some Twitter parody accounts a...

We and out our awards for best song in a video game, fan made video, downloadable content and best new character for 2012. NBCNews.com's Todd Kenreck reports. (In-Game)

Mobee, best known for its chargers for Apple's peripherals, has three new products that will debut at CES 2013, including a compact battery, a speaker, and a universal charging cable. Magic Juice ($79.99), Mobee's compac...

(Reuters) - A large Clearwire Corp shareholder on Friday stepped up its campaign against the planned sale of the wireless service provider to its majority owner, Sprint Nextel Corp, saying it plans to ask the U.S. teleco...