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Canon today announced the successful creation of a new full-frame CMOS sensor, designed exclusively for shooting video. The new sensor can capture full-HD video with extremely low noise in settings where it has been hard...

For the first time in 10 years, the lead-up to SXSW is, well, quiet. The usual influx of party invitations, Twitter stream inundation and press speculation around what’s going to be this year’s "breakout ap...

The rivalry between Egypt’s ruling Islamist party and its opposition is heating up — through the medium of antagonistic Harlem Shaking. Last Thursday, 70 or so protestors and activists showed up at the Musl...

Art nerds will know their complimentary colors, but for the rest of us, food pairings are far more interesting/important. Minneapolis-based graphic designer and illustrator david schwen, but together this clever little c...

Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler says that WikiLeaks clearly qualifies as a media entity, and argues that by pursuing Bradley Manning for aiding the enemy, the government is putting journalism at risk as well as whis...

Roman Karachinsky, CEO of news personalization startup News360, stopped by the TechCrunch TV studio earlier this week to show off the company's recently redesigned Android app. He also shared a little bit of data on h...

Although there's undoubtedly been improvements to low light videography, it's still difficult or impossible for most cameras to record in near-total darkness. Canon has the solution with a video-only, 35mm CMOS sensor th...

NBN will be ‘three times the current price’: Tony Abbott With opposition leader Tony Abbott declaring unchallenged that the NBN is going to “triple the costs” of access to broadband over the week...

A Polaroid camera with a modern twist is planned, with its makers hoping the novelty of instant pictures can still prove popular.

Riding out of Folsom on a Grizzly to a Smart(er)Cloud The handwriting was on the wall that IBM would be choosing OpenStack as its cloud control freak of choice when Big Blue joined the OpenStack Foundation last April. Th...

The transition to Google Enhanced Campaigns -- where you'll be bidding for tablet clicks combined with desktop/laptop clicks -- will result in inflationary trends in billed CPCs for many advertisers. However, the advent ...

You've heard of an elevator pitch, but how about a Vine pitch? Mashable is teaming with NowThisNews for a contest that challenges you to explain what your startup does and why anyone should care in a mere 6 seconds. We w...

Later today, Facebook will wage its war against your phone's "phone" application on a new front with an update to Messenger For Android that adds VoIP calling to US iOS users and Canadian iOS and Androiders. It's also im...

This story originally appeared on Fast Company. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs took out his iPhone and dialed a Starbucks in San Francisco....

Rumor mill spins at light speed Reminiscent of the hypegasm that preceded the releases of the iPhone in 2007 and iPad in 2010, rumors of Apple's impending "iWatch" are flooding the intertubes, with the latest being that ...

Brushing your teeth is not just a daily chore for people on Earth. Good teeth are vital for astronauts, but not for reasons you may think.

A historical mystery that has beguiled scientists for three-quarters of a century has finally been solved, according to a new documentary airing March 7. In...

From Siri to NeXT, retracing Apple's biggest acquisitions over the years.

Like MobileMe and Apple Maps did, a future iWatch could reinforce the notion that Apple isn't good at web-based services. But -- if done right -- it could push Apple to get its web-based act together.

TripleLift is a New York City-based startup aiming to help advertisers embrace what Chief Strategy Officer Ari Lewine calls "the rise of the visual web." "The web is increasingly dominated by images, and images are quick...

Airpair, a newly launched service which connects entrepreneurs and expert developers over remote online sessions, aims to help startups build better software and speed their time to launch. The idea's name, which brings ...

"I'd like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please." Those were the words of Steve Jobs in 2007: the late Apple co-founder was making the first public phone call with a just-unveiled product called "iPhone." The unsuspecting ...