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This picture, found in a Japanese Elementary School, depicts the mushroom cloud which formed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More

We got some details on Verizon's (and Time Warner Cable's) so-called six strikes policy for dealing with piracy back in November, but TorrentFreak has now turned up more details on just how it will work. According to a c...

While Casio's G-Shock GB6900 was among the company's main focuses at CES 2013, there was yet another watch to be seen inside the company's booth. Interestingly enough, though, the Japanese firm wasn't exactly showcasing ...

If you're an avid Dropbox user, then you have probably figured out that the site and service aren't working properly right now. A lot of tech professionals use the service to share files with distributed teams. It's a li...

It's easy to hate CES. It's a vapid, broken wunderkammer filled with booze, waste, and gadgets no one will buy for months if not years if ever at all. The show floor is a crass place where marketers try out ways to get i...

California's Attorney General Kamala Harris released new guidelines targeted at mobile application developers to ensure consumer awareness of privacy and data practices. This trajectory could be influential in creating f...

IBM's Watson-the super computer used to sweep Jeopardy! contestants- became such a foul mouthed computer after ingesting the Urban Dictionary it required a swear filter. In an effort to "humanize" the super computer when...

As noted by The Next Web, Apple has added support for new movie and TV streaming service Watchever to the Apple TV in Germany. Essentially a German version of Hulu launched by Vivendi this month, it offers local, Europea...

Facebook is testing some "extreme price points" to let users pay to send messages.

'Booth babes' have been one of the more unfortunate features of tech trade shows for years. Women (we've never seen any male booth babes) chosen for their looks are paid to hang around a company's booth and attract the m...

The German Enterprise software behemoth brings its core applications to its HANA in-memory database.

These are NASA's GRAIL twin spacecraft's final videos before crashing. Ebb and Flow--as the spacecraft's were affectionately known at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory--turned on their video cameras for one last time three d...

One of the clear automotive technology trends at CES this year is cars that drive themselves. From Audi to Lexus to Ford, the world's largest car companies are beginning to follow Google's lead in an effort to produce ca...

LAS VEGAS - At last year's CES, advertising on Internet-connect TV's was presented as an emerging opportunity. This year, major brands including American Express,...

Millennials are stuck navigating a new romantic landscape in the age of technology and the hookup.

Here's a cool little Kickstarter we ran across today, and for once it's not already funded 5-times over in the first few days, so you'll have the chance to be a part of it. The product is a lens holster designed specific...

As John F. Kennedy once noted, the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of the characters for "danger" and "opportunity." So characteristically, amid the hand-wringing at CES about the show's decreased relevance, a hand...

Konka phones rarely (if ever) grace our desks at home, but the company certainly makes a solid effort to show them off to the masses at trade shows like CES. The latest device featured at Konka's booth is the Expose 970,...

Fleksy, the new mobile keyboard that debuted on iOS back in August, was showing its stuff at CES this year. The trick of automatically predicting what you're typing without requiring much more than your relative tap posi...

Here's a small but really cool customization for app developers that Google just announced: You can now build the Google Play badges (you see them whenever we write about an app) in 47 languages, from Afrikaans to isiZul...

Of course it's Portland. The weirdest story in tech in 2012 has resurfaced in the Northwest. McAfee's going to be spending the next 18 months in the city, and we're trying to figure out what, exactly his next move is. Mo...

A one way electric scooter trip -- is that the answer to getting you to the train station every morning? Startup Scoot Networks has now launched one-way trips for its growing network of shared electric scooters.