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Want to focus your camera simply by looking at a particular area of the viewfinder? If you're a Sony shooter, you might be enjoying that feature as early as next year. The company is reportedly working on building Eye Tr...

Is your Adobe Lightroom running slowly on your computer? Adobe regularly receives questions through social media regarding sluggish photo editing, and recently decided to start compiling the non-traditional solutions tha...

We're well into the new year now, past CES, and we're cruising. This week we've got the worst GPS error, the best sex toy, the most resourcefully lazy employee who out-sourced his job, tips on how to rid your browser fro...

A time-lapse of the aurora borealis captured from several different locations throughout Iceland would be a good enough way to start off your Saturday, but MIT neuroscientist Alex Rivest's time-lapse from a few months ag...

Aaron Swartz died a week ago, from suicide. A public memorial service in New York City begins later today. You may have read much about Swartz's life in the interim, including his work on Reddit and the RSS specification...

This is so incredible that I think I've seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn't, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the ban...

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On Friday John Cornyn, the Republican Senator from Texas, wrote a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers on the "prosecutorial conduct" surrounding Aaron Swartz's case -- specifically, whe...

Her story was my story and it still is. So much of her life is about my life. So much of her needs and wants emanate and reciprocate through me. It's consumed, exhausting, baffling and overwhelming, but it's my life. Thi...

1. Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month Google announced plans Tuesday to hold a "Glass Foundry" in San Francisco and New York in the coming weeks: Two full days of hacking that will allow developers to get a...

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commentary With its serious processor, and its guts-behind-the-glass design, Microsoft's Surface Pro may well be the template for the new PC. And device makers should pay attention.

We don't feature a lot of tripods on PetaPixel because, frankly, once you've seen one you've just about seen them all. That's not to say that tripods don't vary hugely in both build quality and functionality, just that i...

Today, Electronic Arts announced that it is currently developing SimCityEDU, an online educational game based on the latest reboot of the company's popular SimCity franchise. Created in a partnership with GlassLabs, SimC...

Kim Dotcom's long-anticpated 'Mega' file-sharing site is now open to the public. More About: Dropbox, file sharing, Kim Dotcom, megaupload, Small Business

The Transport Security Administration says its techies have failed to create software that would allow passengers to appears less naked when going through scanners, so it is removing the devices.

Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form of a piece of jewelry such as a ring. In a research paper, two of its e...

One of the most vehemently argued conspiracy theories of all time is that, in 1969, NASA did not actually land on the moon. Many different breakdowns of the photo and video footage have been used to make this point (thin...

Think twice before skipping out on tipping your contractor, or else small businesses may end up blacklisting you. A former landscape company owner created NastyClient.com, a rating and review website that lets businesses...

The app picks just keep on coming. Straight from the Android Central writers to you, the best apps we're using for the previous week are listed here. We've got some productivity tools and a few fun games for you to enjoy...

Editor's note: Victor Belfor is the vice president of business development at Influitive. He recently started angel investing and mentoring at 500 startups. As products mature, companies continue to compete in heated bat...

James Urquhart explains the concept of anti-fragility and how modern IT departments are trying to achieve through a variety of means, including the implementation of devops. However, he cautions, anti-fragility might not...