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Because every single person on the Internet decided to force induce viralness by not really doing the Harlem Shake while making those ridiculous Harlem Shake videos, it's time to kill this meme with a "Harlem Shake" vide...

News. Weather. Mr. T-themed everything. There's a slight chance those are your priorities in life, so we're speaking to you with this round of iPhone apps of the week. More

Tempo Your iPhone calendar just got a lot smarter. Tempo, a new smart calendar project from the birthplace of Siri, launched this week. The app not only keeps track of your appointments, but also pulls in relevant inform...

When I hear that someone (usually in Florida) died in some freak accident that involves fireworks or sidewalks or parked cars or wild animals, I wonder to myself, what the hell are the odds of that freaking happening? Th...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony's next PlayStation, which is expected to be announced on February 20th, will include a new technology that'll allow it to stream video games. Yep, streaming to play. More

We've long known that the Large Hadron Collider would need to take a break, but that doesn't take the edge off of the moment itself: as of Valentine's Day, the particle accelerator has conducted its last test for the nex...

Today, we dealt with an asteroid and a meteor. The 2012 DA14 asteroid zipped passed Earth today and a meteor exploded over Russia. What the heck is the difference between an asteroid and a meteor? And a meteorite? And a ...

Best Buy started matching prices of online retailers in time for the holidays last year, and now it's set to make the practice permanent in an effort to cure its showroom syndrome and turn window-shopping visitors into p...

The Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Brands (IB) have settled a lawsuit over the recently-launched Wikivoyage site, which provides free, user-editable travel information. Back in August 2012, IB -- the parent company of...

It could have been the tweet of the century. But Pope Benedict decided not to announce his resignation on Twitter, which he joined last year in a foray into social media that has reaped uncertain spiritual returns and co...

President Obama offered some tough talk on patent trolls, the parasite shell companies that are taxing the start-up sector. He has the power to fix the problem -- it's time for him to use it.

A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone could get hurt, leaving many wondering: What's it like to get hit with a piece of space junk? One woman knows.

You've probably used Gracenote thousands of times and have been none the wiser, but for good reason: the musical metadata service lives in the background of several apps, appearing only momentarily to bring meaning to yo...

Earlier today, Dropbox rolled out version 2.1 of its iOS app with a trio of enhancements in tow. The update, which requires iOS 5.0 or higher introduces a built-in PDF viewer, file sorting by date modified, and push noti...

1. System Shock 2 Sometimes bad things happen to good games. System Shock 2, a space horror PC game, has been locked in weird copyright limbo for years, and is finally available for download on Good Old Games for $9.99. ...

Could a lack of innovation leave Apple's flagship tablet vulnerable to new PC form factors such as ultrabook systems? One analyst thinks so.

While a fifty-yard-wide asteroid was speeding toward Earth at 17,000 mph, a meteor crashed in Chebarkul, Russia injuring 1,200 people. And also here's what we are doing about killer asteroids.

Expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, Sony's PS4 will let users play games piped over the Internet, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Palantir just scooped up some fresh minds to aid its mission of analyzing the world's information. Today Y Combinator Summer 2012 startup Voicegem announced its team is joining Palantir, and it will shut down its voice e...

In what many are seeing as a bid to take over some of Twitter app Vine's newly created video loop market, video company Vimeo has bought up the popular iOS app Echograph. Echograph, in case you're not familiar with it, i...

Last May, Incident Tech launched the gTar, a guitar with real strings that connected to a smartphone for some amazing sound processing. In the last few months, the founder, Idan Beck and his team have been busy preparing...

The British police officers that raided Ian Driscoll's Tewkesbury home found the what they were looking for. They just didn't expect it to be plastic. Or a model. More