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Coyotes, reviled for preying on sheep and goats, are the most targeted predator in the U.S. This week, hunters in the tiny Modoc County town of Adin will compete in a contest to kill the most coyotes to protect their liv...

Monty Python's Flying Circus stars John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones are set to work together again on Absolutely Anything, a sci-fi farce that will blend live action and CGI footage. Jones is di...

Deep in the heart of Europe sits a massive display full of live camera feeds from all over the world. Visitors drop by to peer in on unsuspecting strangers, staring blankly at scenes both intimate and banal -- sleeping b...

Something tells us they won't be handing out gold watches for this milestone. Just eight months after Google added copyright takedown requests to its Transparency Report, the search firm can claim to have almost exactly ...

Computer maker Dell announced on Tuesday that it will go private, and its chief rival Hewlett-Packard couldn't help but weigh in. "Dell has a very...

As with last year, Apple again led the PC market in sales if tablets and traditional personal computers are combined, according to research firm Canalys. In the 2011 holiday quarter, Apple sold 15 million iPads and 5 mil...

Poachers seeking ivory tusks have killed and mutilated 11,000 elephants at just one national park in Africa since 2004, a conservation group said today. "This is a shocking number," said Dr. James Deutch, director of the...

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A Connecticut state representative whose district includes Newtown is calling for a tax on "Mature"-rated video games, and she wants the money to fund mental health education about "the danger of violent games." Republic...

This guy claims that this invention is a perpetual motion machine, the Philosopher's Stone of physics, the Holy Grail of power. Play the video and check it out for yourself. More

For what it's worth, the new movie Noobz, which is now out on DVD after a brief and limited theatrical run, celebrates eSports. The independent comedy was filmed in Hollywood by writer/director/producer Blake Freeman and...

Hasbro, makers of the iconic board game Monopoly, announced last month that it was holding a vote on Facebook to replace one of the real estate game's tokens with a new, fan-chosen option. The dog, car, shoe, iron, thimb...

Google has acquired the company for cash and expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2013.

If you've ever been creeped out by those targeted ads on Facebook, they're about to be a touch easier to spot. The social network has agreed with the Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program to start disp...

WASHINGTON -- For nearly two months, smartphone users resorted to the dark ages of bus travel. When the NextBus app stopped working on December 20,...

A new report from IHS says microserver shipments will triple this year. The question is, Who will emerge as the leading microserver providers?

The Chromebook Pixel boasts a high-resolution display and a sleek design. Is it real?

Tenacity: if you don't have it, online dating isn't for you. Though match-making websites may seem like a quick alternative to meeting your one true love at a bar, perusing pages of potential dates calls for some dedicat...

Hasbro left it up to the Internet to choose the new Monopoly token, but even a Facebook promotion and a Webful of cats can't make the board game relevant again. This story plus Pebble watch growing pains, the end of USPS...

Microsoft and Symantec joined forces to shut down a botnet controlling hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, according to a report. Between 300,000 and 600,000 computers were freed from botnet control when tec...

Twitter today updated its iPhone and Android apps and its mobile website, introducing a redesigned Discover tab and a streamlined search experience. The Discover tab now houses a single stream of Tweets, Trends, and Acti...

Just in time for Mobile Nations Fitness Month, RunKeeper 3.0 beta for Android has landed. RunKeeper is a personal workout app designed to help you keep track of how you exercise, primarily using using GPS on your phone t...