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Remember that toy of yersteryear with the variously shaped holes and similarly shaped blocks to shove in them? Remember how great it felt when you stopped trying to jam the star into the circle and everything fell into p...

Indie-electrorock group, Astro, is kind of a big deal. Already one of the most popular bands in their native Chile since forming in 2008, Astro's summer 2012 debut album arrived to heapings of praise by the New York Time...

Neil deGrasse Tyson just took the mystery out of a cosmic legend in comics, and somehow made it even cooler. How much does Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor and forged from a collapsing star, actually weigh? Turns out, stars w...

I'm still thinking about yesterday's news that Dell is going private, a move which is in part a response to the company's long decline as a powerhouse of the PC business. Once upon a time, it was the industry's most reli...

When the BlackBerry team said Skype was committed to bring its app to BB 10, did you envision the software being a simple Android port? Me neither.

Net income climbs 66 percent in quarter as CEO calls 2012 a "transformative year for LinkedIn."

TuneIn is a massively popular online radio service with over 40 million monthly active listeners according to its own data. The reason for its success is mostly due to its popular mobile apps and not necessarily because ...

And on the eighth day, to quote a famous speech, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God, to paraphrase said speech, made Kai. That's Kai the hitchhiker. Kai the hatchet-wielding sa...

Hunter Walk and Satya Patel, formerly of Google and Twitter respectively, are reportedly raising a new fund for a VC firm called Homebrew. The two would bring deep experience as product managers in the Valley to a relati...

Last month a fan stormed the field to hug Lionel Messi, the world's greatest soccer player. But that fan has nothing on this guy, it seems. More About: soccer, Sports, Watercooler

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has been grounded for weeks now, may soon have a chance to fly again. Boeing has proposed a redesign for the bursting in flame batteries that would minimize the risk of fire. It's not a p...

Coco Brown could become the first adult film actress launched into space, according to press reports. Brown has apparently booked a seat aboard a suborbital private space plane for a March 2014 mission arranged by the sp...

As first reported by AllThingsD, Yahoo has announced an advertising partnership with Google, not unlike working relationships it has with other companies. Yahoo in its current form has quite a few pages for advertising d...

Ancient single-celled organisms called foraminifera may protect coastlines from stormy weather in the coming era of warmer and more acidic oceans, according to a new study.

LinkedIn proved once again why it is Wall Street's favorite social media stock. The company reported revenue of $304 million for the December quarter, a whopping 81% increase from the same quarter the year before and wel...

How does RootMetrics know who has the best mobile data network? During a ride-along, Root showed us just how it collects the millions of data-points that go into its detailed coverage maps and performance reports.

The hyperlocal source of news and information may have been an innovative approach to media, but NBC says it wasn't doing well as a business.

The hyperlocal source of news and information, heralded as an innovative approach to media, wasn't doing well has a business, NBC says.

Amid the hubbub over CBS's hilariously ridiculed nudity ban for the Grammys, the Oscars is getting a little dirty with a new promo in which host Seth MacFarlane enters the Matrix and asks a thoughtful question about his ...

We're hearing from multiple sources that there was a small round of layoffs today at enterprise collaboration company Yammer. The number of people let go is around 20 staffers, according to our sources. UPDATE: Yammer ha...

Goldbely is trying to connect its customers -- which it refers to as "Food Explorers" -- with interesting food such as Chicago deep-dish pizza, Philadelphia cheesesteaks, Texas barbecue, New York bagels, and Maryland cra...

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