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Want to create a long exposure photo but don't have a camera that can keep its shutter open for extended periods of time? Mansour Moufid of Elite Raspberries is working on a script called "Hipshot" that can take ordinary...

Twitter is modern day people watching. Anytime you check it, you see what a person is thinking or doing or saying. But it's not all happening in a digital vacuum, they're on break at work tweeting about their boss, they'...

Hello Internet! We're now hiring Editorial Fellows for our New York office. More

DARPA already intends to set a drone ship out to sea, and now it's revealed plans for undersea payloads that lie dormant for years and launch themselves to the surface when remotely commanded. Dubbed Upward Falling Paylo...

OkCupid has risen to be one of the most popular dating sites on the web, complete with a mobile offering on iOS and Android. But today marks the launch of the first brand new stand-alone product from the company, aimed a...

What can a film's color scheme say about its narrative? According to Spotmaps, quite a lot. Created by Andy Willis, Spotmaps is a Python-based project that conceptualizes classic movies not in words or storyboards, but h...

Microsoft unveiled a neat contest for developers, giving them a chance to have their app featured in a Windows Phone television ad. The contest, which officially started Monday, is called Windows Phone Next App Star, and...

An international team of scientists has discovered the biggest known structure in the universe--and it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light 4 billion years to cross it. More

Apple pricing is unlike almost every other brand in consumer tech: consistent across each and every retailer, and rarely discounted. How do Cook and Co manage to pull that off? More

Udacity, a startup that provides online college courses, is set to announce a partnership with San Jose State University this week, in a move that could set the stage for broader, less expensive web classes across Califo...

Not content to dominate internet search in China alone, Baidu and France Telecom's Orange are partnering to capitalize on African and Middle Eastern markets as well. Today they launched a co-branded version of Baidu's br...

Author of "Think Like Zuck," Ekaterina Walter and I discuss Mark Zuckerberg and other ultra-successful entrepreneurs and innovators.

According to doctors, public lice or crabs or whatever the hell that makes people scratch down there is disappearing because everybody is getting Brazilian waxes. We're killing them off by destroying the forests they lov...

Canon today officially launched a new initiative including a pilot location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that follows the experience of physical retail projects like Apple Stores and Microsoft's recent brick-and-mortar lo...

The Web is up in arms and pointing fingers about a Street View shot of a prostrate beast of burden somewhere in Botswana. Google says it takes the safety of donkeys "very seriously."

At the 2103 Detroit auto show, Volkswagen unveiled cars using two key components for future fuel efficiency, a Passat with a new generation direct injection engine and a concept car with a new hybrid system.

Facebook just took a big bite out of Google. Today, the social network announced Graph Search, a new feature that lets you search the interests, location, and preferences of your friends. For anyone who uses the Internet...

In a ruling that could have dramatic consequences for online news agencies and digital journalists, a judge ruled Tuesday that two news outlets should have asked permission before using a Twitter picture from a photojour...

WASHINGTON

Rumors of the former Google and AOL executive's departure have been running through Yahoo for months and now it appears to be true.

Instagram's updated terms of service and privacy policy go into effect this Saturday, Jan. 19. At least for now, the new policies will mean little change for users. But when changes come, as they likely will, Instagramme...

Just last month, NASA ended the lives of Ebb and Flow, it's two probes that were orbiting the Moon, by crashing them into the lunar surface. But before they saw their ultimate demise, engineers at NASA turned on the prob...