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Transcoding video is a pain. We know that about as well as anyone. Amazon feels that pain, and thankfully, it's got the servers to back it up. Ahead of today's earnings release, the retail giant is announcing the release...

iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips and the fancy new Apple devices they come in have been out of luck. B...

Whoa. We've seen Ashton Kutcher in a scene from early in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, and had an early review of the film as well, but this is the first we've seen of his makeup for the latter day Jobs. And man, it's ...

So JJ Abrams is directing Star Wars Episode VII, and everyone is quite certain that it will be very great or very bad or very dumb. But before we see a single frame of lens flared footage, this shot-for-shot recreation o...

Cheese and chocolate are, separately, two of the best food items. And if for some reason you want to marry the two, you can with the Trisa Starline electrical gourmet mill ($140), because it has two separate chambers. Mo...

The plucky toy robot can track motion, and responds to voice commands in both English and Chinese.

There are few things more annoying than bringing an umbrella with you when you don't need it. Never make that mistake again--Nooly will give you accurate, super-local forecasts for your exact neighborhood. More

At just over 7 billion in number, human beings are kind of a big deal. Despite our greatness in numbers, however, there are quite a few other species sharing our little blue dot. Sadly, the one greatest in number isn't s...

Lucky for you a well-lit night is just a lightswitch away, but it wasn't always that easy. The "Weight Here" family of candle-holders by Menu harkens back to a more fiery time, with a flourish of sleek minimalist design....

XBMC 12 Frodo has spent enough time in beta that you'd think it was walking to Mordor. Whatever prompted the long trek, it's at last over: the finished version of XBMC 12 is hitting the servers. As promised, the complete...

North Korea has yet to welcome the internet with open arms despite Eric Schmidt's visit, but the internet is certainly welcoming North Korea: as of a sweeping update, Google Maps touts detailed cartography of the seclude...

If your Facebook seems like it's a bit quiet just now, don't worry. Real-time updates about baby poop and your friends' feelings about their favorite TED videos will return just as soon as the social media platform deals...

These warped chairs, designed by French studio Ibride, have so many hidden features it's making my brain wrinkle at a rate it's never scrunched up before. The optical illusion is to show the chair with a classic silhouet...

Decades ago, NASA would frequently light up the night sky with chemical trails as part of its measurements of upper atmosphere behavior. While those moments are increasingly rare, we'll get a rare chance to enjoy one of ...

Photo: Josef Kissinger January 29, 2013 /Photography News/ Uninhabited buildings can be found in every city and in every rural area in every country in the world. These structures once were homes, warehouses, barns, or s...

Editorial independence is kind of a polemic at TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with story, we write it anyways. So, we have an offer to make to the writers at CNET. It...

Privacy watchdogs in both countries say the mobile messaging service app continues to breach privacy laws, even though it has implemented their recommendations.

Men lie, women lie, number's dont. PBS takes a look at the sheer ridiculousness of some numbers and then compares them against each other. Like how there are 7 billion humans... but 10 billion bats in the world. Or how h...

Ever since Canon's new 24-70mm f/2.8L II arrived late last year, lens reviewers around the web have been saying very nice things about its sharpness. DxOMark is the latest tester to do so. Here's what it has to say:

Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This is the third security updat...

Today, a group of four senators from both major parties introduced the Immigration Innovation Act, which if passed would boost the number of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) visas available to for...

Retailers can now add a surcharge of up to 4% on credit card transactions, but that doesn't necessarily mean your next Amazon purchase will include the fee. Though Amazon hasn't stated whether it will levy the charge, Da...