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Republic Wireless has been kicking around in beta form for about a year now, and they have recently me to spend some time with their phone and their service. I'll admit, I went into it all a bit skeptical. I understand t...

If you're feeling a little freaky on this Friday night but not freaky enough to dip into hallucinatory drugs, watch this video instead. Basically, you stare at the video and then look at a wall and watch everything colla...

The recent Zendesk hack that compromised user data from Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest reflects the risks in using third-party service providers. Zendesk sells cloud-based customer service software for storing, organizing...

A new type of image sensor has been developed by Austrian researchers that takes the form of a transparent film that could be placed over windows, walls, or displays. It's still very much a work in progress, but could re...

Startup Battlefield is the heart and soul of Disrupt. It's one of the best platforms in the world to launch your startup, and we're looking for the very best startups to feature at Disrupt NY this April. But applications...

A new market for second-hand digital downloads could let us hold virtual yard sales of our ever-growing piles of intangible possessions

Google has spoken to some of the top music-recording companies about creating a subscription music service similar to Rdio and Spotify, but music industry sources have told The Verge that any launch of such a service is ...

The Lancaster Watch Camera and its little sister, the ladies version, offer some of the earliest proof that spys are, indeed, among us. Ok, maybe not that, but they are a pretty neat piece of 1890′s camera engineering....

A long-delayed set of anti-piracy rules could be put in place early next week. Sources have told both The Daily Dot nd TorrentFreak that five major US ISPs -- AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Cablevision --...

Photo: Joe Calleri, 'The Boys' February 23, 2013 /Photography News/ Love is the emotion that binds all of us. Love signifies caring, faithfulness, devotion and hope. Love comes in all shapes and forms. Love can be our fe...

Imagine going about your day like the people in Russia only to be smacked against a wall by a meteorite's shockwave. That's already crazy. But imaging being in your home, napping on your couch and actually getting hit by...

The weightlessness of outer space can make germs even nastier, increasing the dangers astronauts face, researchers say.

Star-shaped waves can form in vibrating tanks of liquid oil, researchers say. Learning more about such bizarre waves could shed light on counterparts that may exist elsewhere in nature, researchers added.

Frequent firmware leaker SamMobile has just released what it believes is a build of the Android 4.2.1 update for the international (i9300) Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3). What we're looking at here is someone testing the new f...

The design of the 42-acre "Bayview" expansion, which is set for completion in 2015, reportedly grew out of a mountain of Google data.

Perhaps school administrators were sick of the meme? A 17-year-old high school student was arrested and suspended for five days after organizing a failed "Harlem Shake" video shoot on campus Friday, according to the New ...

Our planet's recent close call with one asteroid, and direct visit from another has definitely made it seem important to consider how to avoid the pesky things in the future. One solution is to direct the Sun's power int...

An online fundraiser has accumulated more than $100,000 for a Kansas City homeless man after he returned an engagement ring to its owner. More About: giveforward, online fundraising, Social Good

While workers at many companies were ending their work week Friday, Microsoft techs were scrambling to put out operational fires. Late on Friday afternoon, Microsoft discovered that its worldwide Azure cloud service had ...

Just about any apartment-dwelling urbanite can tell you that radiators are a bit of a necessary evil in the world of city living. What if there was a way to control the heat to individual rental units, without relying en...

ProxToMe Need to send files from your phone to a friend? How about a group of friends? ProxToMe is a new app that lets you see other iOS devices around you, and then send a file from your phone to theirs, instantly. The ...

It's that time of year again -- mobile nerds and enthusiasts of all stripes have begun to descend upon Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and naturally a TechCrunch contingent has set up camp in Spain to cover it all. ...