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"The Ugly Truth" is a bizarre series of portraits by photographer Rut Mackel. Each photo features a not-very-pleasing photo of a face that looks flatted and disfigured. No, the subjects don't actually look like that, and...

We've seen a lot of gimmicks when it comes to selling cameras. Especially where point-and-shoots are concerned, gimmicky features have become standard over the past few years as part of the war on smartphones. But this h...

It's been a while since we've shared some DigitalRev tomfoolery, but the most recent question posed by Kai and his buddies is an interesting one: given how expensive "entry-level" full-frame DSLRs are, would a dirt cheap...

At the DLD conference in Munich today, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took the stage to discuss why he and his firm Andreessen Horowitz invests in a company and its founders. Last year, he said, Andreessen Horowitz foun...

In Silver Linings Playbook star Jennifer Lawrence's opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend, she took material from her infamous Golden Globes moment when she said "I beat Meryl [Streep]" and many onlookers...

Larry Page takes a swipe at his rivals in a Wired interview, as Google buys land for new London offices that could be worth £1B.

Scientists have used scanners to peer into a beatboxer as he performed his craft to reveal the secrets of this mysterious art.

After returning from a private mission to North Korea, Eric Schmidt says he sternly warned North Korean officials that their country risks falling further behind economically without a connection to the global internet, ...

This week's Viral Video Recap features the regular cast of entertaining characters. In this edition, we see Bad Lip Reading figure out what NFL coaches are yelling from the sidelines, The Slo Mo Guys shoot fireworks from...

Wi-Fi's all around you. Chances are you're in the middle of a big blanket of it right now, as you're reading this. But what does it look like? Well, nothing; it's invisible. But if it wasn't it might look a little someth...

In just one day, Kim Dotcom's new Mega service has reportedly garnered over one million users. The impressive tally was revealed by Dotcom himself during a lavish launch party for the cloud storage platform in New Zealan...

Sure, Google may have temporarily mothballed the Nexus Q, but some of the caked-on cobwebs are being wiped off thanks to the very first nightly release of CyanogenMod 10.1 for the device. Christened steelhead, the build ...

The days of the standalone bedside alarm clock are numbered, with the simple inclusion of a "clock" app on every smartphone taking over. But there are so many options out there, why settle for the app pre-loaded on your ...

You know all about getting your resume noticed. Clean layout! Accomplishments, not duties! But do you know what's on the flipside? What could you be doing that could cause recruiters to overlook your resume -- or worse, ...

Kevin and I are back in action after the holidays and kicked off the year with discussions around CES 2013.

Think you've mastered the dance moves to "Gangnam Style" from international phenomenon Psy? This 7-month-old just might beat you in a dance-off. While the average baby this age is yet to master walking and talking, this ...

We've seen the Organic Transit Elf go from a twinkle in founder Rob Cotter's eye to the real deal in a matter of a few short months. The solar-powered pedal hybrid vehicle first showed its face in prototype phase back at...

Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korea in order to spread the good word about open Internet has been kind of strange from the start. Today, he posted on Google+ how he warned the country that it might be left behind. You kno...

NASCAR enthusiasts will be able to take their fandom to a new level next for the 2013 season's first exhibition race by voting to determine what several elements of the race itself look like. More About: NASCAR, Sports

Stargazers looking up as darkness falls on Monday (Jan. 21) will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky, weather permitting. The moon, appearing as a waxing gibbous p...

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Facebook Graph Search this week, what was he really thinking? Our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech were somehow able to eavesdrop on his darkest thoughts, which ...

This past week post-CES proved to be a busy one in the tech news world, so we had a number of interesting topics to chat about on CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show wherein a few of us writers discuss the most interestin...