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Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, just announced that it is rolling out a vertical for portfolio sites. This, the company says, is meant to allow photographers, videographers, illustrators, painters, desig...

Being out on the roads is dangerous, be you a donkey in Botswana, a deer in New York, or a Google Street View driver. Things don't get newsworthy, however, until one of the first two meets up with the third. That's what ...

Photographer Zack Arias created this video titled Signal vs. Noise to help his fellow photogs refocus their lives and careers. His advice: "Look for the signal in your life, and not the noise." Arias writes, As 2012 was ...

The White House's We the People tool, which mandates an official response to any online petition garnering a certain number of signatures, now has a much higher barrier to entry. While the government previously had to re...

Back in May, we shared the unique story of Lynda.com, the veteran, video-based education platform, and how it was able to generate $70 million in revenue in 2011 without taking a penny from outside investors. Since then,...

Ever since debuting back in April of last year, developers and journalists alike have been clamoring to get their hands on Google's high-tech headwear, Project Glass. Google gave U.S.-based developers a chance to pre-ord...

As Facebook refines its search processes with Graph Search, learn how to maximize your business's chances of showing up in relevant search results.

The Curiosity rover is having a "field day" exploring the rocks in shallow depression that scientists call 'Yellowknife Bay', which is chockfull of light toned rocks. One small rock or feature - the size of a pebble or l...

Here's a nifty little addition to Twitter's website. When you start composing your tweet, the text will change colors when you've added something clickable, like a username or URL. The text changes to blue, and this is t...

Facebook, home of the Like, News Feed and Timeline, is now a social search company. Or at least it desperately wants to be. AllThingsD Senior Editor and friend of Gizmodo Mike Isaac snapped a picture of the new front sig...

Facebook took pains today to tell the world that its new social search service, Graph Search, is only a very limited tool that it will roll out very slowly over a period of months and years.

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After recently purchasing a Nikon 1 V1, Swedish photographer Sven Hedin decided to work on making the camera work with an external flash. Not just any external flash, mind you, but a vintage flash unit -- the kind that u...

As rumors swirl about the Samsung Galaxy S4, I throw my own dream features into the pot.

Facebook launched Graph Search as a beta product for many reasons: its gradual rollout to only US English users; its limitation to people, photos, places, and interests (posts and Open Graph actions still aren't included...

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The subtle impact of Facebook Graph Search is that when you share openly, you share for the benefit of mankind. And when you don't, or share to just a few people, you're robbing the world of your knowledge, recommendatio...

City waste is an emerging source of clean power in India. Next month a company called Ramky Enviro Engineers plans to conduct a $200 million IPO and will use the funds to build a power plant that uses municipal waste as ...

eBay reported strong earnings today, thanks to growth in mobile adoption as well as improved performance in the Marketplaces business. The company also released its mobile commerce numbers for the year, which blew past o...

Do you like being that extremely annoying person at parties, concerts, or sporting events that everyone wishes security would quickly escort away? That's all but guaranteed if you show up with the Deaf Leopard: a CO2-pow...

President Barack Obama suggested more research needed to be done on the affect of video games and other "violent media" on children during his Wednesday morning address detailing his plan for lowering gun violence in the...

Facebook's new Graph Search will surface more information about you. Here are some privacy setting tips.