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Early today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a lengthy written response to a negative report by the New York Times on its Model S electric sedan, accusing reporter John Broder of intentionally sabotaging his test drive due to...

She loved the flowers and chocolates, your romantic home-cooked meal went off without a hitch, and now you're looking for the proper soundtrack for after-dinner "coffee." But what single melody could possibly encapsulate...

For Valentine's Day today (you didn't forget, did you?), San Francisco-based self-proclaimed super nerd Doctor Popular decided to give his significant other a card packaged inside a 35mm film canister. While the same art...

Now in its 13th version, Adobe Photoshop has become an indispensable tool with 23 years of features and cruft baked into it -- but the source code for the application's original 1990 version is now available as a free do...

You may have heard that the humble computer mouse is an endangered species, threatened by the rise of modern touch gestures. This may be true, but gesture based-computing isn't a zero-sum game. Millions of people still u...

Despite being one of the most successful software entities on Android, WhatsApp's been a little late to adopt certain design guidelines preferred by Google's mobile platform. Thankfully, the renowned messaging applicatio...

Reports from the Urals region of Russia suggest that meteorites may have exploded 10,000 meters above the ground this morning. YouTube videos show loud blasts and bright objects falling from the sky, and an emergency off...

When Jonathan Fielding heard that the carburetor of the plane he was in had iced over, his first inclination was to grab his smartphone. Fielding was on a flight over Utah, with his wife (it was her first time flying), h...

The whole world knows that the armored Avenger, Iron Man, is actually genius billionaire playboy Tony Stark. The high-flying superhero will land in theaters again this May in Iron Man 3, but if your child wants to read u...

There's a modern day gold rush happening for full-featured voice and messaging apps. Now even name brand social media companies are getting into the act. How can you take advantage of this trend to grow, or even just pro...

These are the really, really simple things you should be doing to keep casual intruders from invading your privacy.

A strange sea creature is showing up on beaches along the Washington Coast, raising curiosity and concerns. KING's Gary Chittim reports. (NBC News)

A new controller may debut with the PS4 next week, Skype adds video messages, and the Bump app gets an extremely useful upgrade.

Facebook has won a court challenge against its real names policy in Germany. Yesterday an administrative court in the North of Germany granted Facebook's request for "suspensive effect" against a ruling made by Schleswig...

A crashing computer is at best annoying and at worst catastrophic. But now a team of scientists has developed a new type of computer that never crashes--and it relies on chaos and randomness to achieve the feat. More

A bitter fight over who started the Huffington Post took a major twist today after a judge not only refused for the second time to dismiss the case, but also expanded it.

Bioware made it big riding on the back of Baldur's Gate, and its success became the basis for add-ons, sequels and spin-offs that established Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk as legends in the gaming industry. A mix of undilu...

One of the major international news stories today is the fact that a meteorite streak across the sky in central Russian today, causing an explosion and shock wave that injured over 1,000 people. It was the largest meteor...

With its Real Directions feature, some Garmin GPS units now give directions using landmarks, saying, for example, to turn left at the Starbucks.

As one of the largest sites on the internet, there's no doubt that Facebook is a prime target for hackers. It looks like some of those hackers were apparently successful -- Facebook has just admitted that its systems wer...

More 1,000 people were injured Friday, when the largest meteor to strike the Earth in two generations disintegrated above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, raining burning bits of rock that shattered windows and caused a ...

A number of Silicon Valley investors are starting the long weekend with a smile. That's thanks to Xoom Corporation, the online money transfer technology and services company, which made a very successful debut today on t...