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In 2009, when Kodak announced that production of Kodachrome film would be coming to an end, legendary photographer Steve McCurry saw an opportunity, and asked if the company would give him the final roll. Given his reput...

You'd imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep count as they go through and you'll see a whole 21 plows in formation (and a couple of sand trucks) painst...

The proliferation of organized "hackathons" has been a big story over the past few years. Quite a few developers that I'm friends with see them as a way to keep themselves sharp on their own products and ideas, especiall...

Google continues to make moves to infiltrate and replace your wallet, this week releasing a new "digital coupon solution" called Zavers. Zavers is essentially a coupon book tied to your phone: you add coupons to your acc...

I heard about the 1,000 year DVD several years ago. I didn't believe it it would ever work, but now I do. Here's why.

Pulse is one of the better-known RSS readers out there, with apps for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire as well as browser integration. Now, a new update to Pulse (for iOS and Android) lets users add social profiles from sit...

Liquid metal technology. That's Terminator 2 stuff, right? Well you better start running now, John Connor, because it's here. A new, flexible, conductive nano-coating lets liquid metal keep its form by transforming under...

Grey wolves are an evolutionary success story, giving rise to the domestic dog 10,000 years ago and now rebounding from centuries of persecution

This system of burners, pipes, flasks and gauges looks like it came straight out of a laboratory. In fact, though, it's a prototype coffee machine--and it could satisfy the technical desires of even the biggest coffee ne...

The Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington, DC, sure doesn't seem to have much difficulty with change. While it might trace a proud history dating back to 1856, the restaurant has moved at least four times, added OpenTable reser...

Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, reports the Wall Street Journal. The article said that "Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, hav...

A view of Kepler 47c and binary stars. ©Digital Drew. All rights reserved. What would it look like on a hypothetical icy moon orbiting the exoplanet Kepler 47c? Perhaps something like this. This is an illustration by an...

Insert a bad Apple Maps joke here: a car just slammed directly through the wall of an Apple store in Lincoln Park, and is now inside the Apple Store. More

Ever wonder what it would be like to hover 131 feet above the ground through rocket power? You could come close with a jetpack, or you could watch a new SpaceX video that shows the Grasshopper reusable rocket's own persp...

Databases offer a trove of medical information, without the cost of clinical research trials.

Which Golden Globes fashion statements sent your fingers running to Facebook to publicly react via status updates? Facebook and InStyle have the rankings. More About: 70th Golden Globes, celebrities, Entertainment, Faceb...

Nintendo's humble Wii may now play second fiddle to the recently-launched Wii U, but that isn't stopping Amazon from bringing its Instant Video platform to the older console. The new Wii Channel just launched in the Wii ...

WASHINGTON -- The federal prosecutor who reportedly insisted on jail time for the late Aaron Swartz was "very, very difficult to deal with," Swartz's lawyer...

Securing your home against intruders used to be as simple as barring your doors and locking your windows. But home automation services--offering everything from remote monitoring to keyless door locks--have revolutionize...

The U.S. Navy wants to pack aerial drones and other intelligence-gathering technology into special containers built to withstand deep ocean pressures and distribute them around the world's seas.

A new survey by children's book publisher Scholastic shows major increases in e-book reading among youths, though fully half have yet to try it. And lovers of paperbacks will be glad to hear that print books are still pu...

The National Rifle Association released on Monday a first-person shooter for the iPhone and iPad -- one month to the day after a tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., left 26 dead. The game, ...