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Social monitoring startup DataSift is releasing an open source, embeddable version of its Query Builder today, allowing anyone to customize and embed the company's tool for conducting social media searches. Co-founder an...

An artist strips all of the fancy colors from superheroes, and the results impress.

Looking to recapture the magic of the first half of Wedding Crashers, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are teaming up to become Google interns in their upcoming movie The Internship. It's a classic tale of Vince Vaughn tryin...

A star that exploded about 27,000 years ago may have produced the Galaxy's youngest known black hole.

Georgia State Representative Earnest Smith has a problem: he doesn't take too kindly to images with his head Photoshopped onto the bodies of male porn stars, and he's introduced a bill to ban the practice. "Everyone has ...

Yesterday saw the first nuclear test since 2009 and North Korea's largest detonation to date, over six kilotons of force generated from an underground site 20 miles west of the town of Hoemun. It's a powerful reminder th...

Instagram as a hot new dating site? Couples fall in love through photos.

That's it, I'm moving to Canada. They know how to have fun. Even in politics! In Canada's House of Commons today, there was an incredible 'debate' about creating an international zombie strategy "so that a zombie invasio...

Images like this might not look like anything new, but they're usually acquired by the likes of NASA. These pictures, however, were taken by a dude in his humble backyard. More

When the 150-foot wide asteroid DA14 passes ridiculously close to the Earth on Friday, this is what it will see. A computer generated video has...

The Pollywogs. I didn't know this band until I saw this video yesterday. Hey, my love for punk starts and stops with the Ramones and The Clash--because I'm old like that. The Pollywogs are from Cologne, Germany, and whil...

When Matthew Allred isn't teaching photography to his students at the University of Utah, he's out creating incredible works of photographic art with the simplest of tools; the pinhole camera. Allred calls his process 'H...

Here you have it, people: four F-31A Lightning IIs returning in formation to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. According to the USAF, "pilots with the 33rd Fighter Wing began flying the formation for the first time at Egl...

Adobe is currently receiving flack for selling software at inflated prices in Australia, where Creative Suite costs $1,400 more than in the US. In this interview, Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, completely refuses to expl...

A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a co...

The US Navy has used a tiny camera like those used by extreme sports athletes to film the inside of an F18 fighter jet. Gizmodo...

Here's the grandaddy that spawned the thing you guys like least on the Internet: ads. This artsy, graffiti'd print on a black background telling you to click "right here" is supposedly the first banner ad to ever appear ...

Online learning site lynda.com has purchased video2brain, an Austria-based company that provides online courses in web design, programming and other computer skills in multiple European languages.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sure loves his slates. "Yes, I believe in tablets. I believe in tablets wholeheartedly," he told investors this afternoon. The company co-founder has good reason to say so: Nvidia's Tegra line o...

Jawbone, a prominent maker of Bluetooth headsets and other audio devices, warned customers Wednesday that a data breach had led to the theft of account information, including email addresses, encrypted passwords and cust...

Facebook co-founder retains status as company's largest shareholder.

Check out this DSLR Paparazzi lamp, created by Spanish design studio Monoculo Design Studio. It's a wooden hanging lamp that's shaped like a gigantic Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 camera lens. It's completely handmade and comes wi...