Technology News

March 7, 2011 /Photography News/ Born 248 years ago today, on March 7, 1765, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825. By the age of thir...

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for t...

Sekonic's Lightmaster Pro L-478D and L-478DR touch-enabled lightmeters are now available as part a $512 special edition bundle that also includes X-Rite's ColorChecker Passport and White Balance Target. This ...

Be careful where you get your news. Some websites have headlines that are screaming “GIANT ASTEROID HEADING TO EARTH!” or “2014 END OF THE WORLD!” It’s been billed as the largest threat to ...

Big dogs apparently die younger mainly because they age more quickly, researchers say. These new findings could help unravel the biological links between growth and mortality, the scientists added.

NASA's Curiosity rover hunkered down Wednesday after the sun unleashed a blast that raced toward Mars.

A canine skull found in the Altai Mountains of Siberia is more closely related to modern domestic dogs than to wolves, a new DNA analysis reveals. The findings could indicate that dogs were domesticated around 33,000 yea...

Country's attorney general had sought to have the agency excluded from the MegaUpload founder's lawsuit. [Read more]

Path, the social networking app that does a little bit of everything, has added some new features in its latest update. Path 3.0 now does private messaging (one-to-one or group), has something called 'Stickers' which are...

Though you may look like a complete dork wearing Google Glass, it's the capital-F future realized in the most overtly futuristic way possible. That means people are going to be interested in this thing. That means once g...

The smartphone has killed a lot of gadgets, but it won't kill all specialized gadgets. In this talk from our internet of things meetup Dave Merrill of Sifteo explains how devices will evolve.

Time Inc. has been struggling in recent months, and now parent company Time Warner has announced it is spinning off the division entirely. In a statement today, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said that the decision had been...

Shares in the Web radio service company climb too, on both the earnings news and reports that Apple's would-be competing service will face delays. [Read more]

Buildings made of ice. We're not talking about that novelty bar you visited on a trip to Vegas. We're talking incredible, impressive, complete structures built in the grand tradition of Ice Palaces all over the world. Mo...

Google's new Chromebook Pixel is a curious device. While its beautiful, seamless hardware nearly justifies its $1,299 price tag, the Chrome OS (which only offers access to Google products and the web) does not. In the sp...

Path has just been updated to add private messaging, stickers and "The Shop" to fall in line with the update that hit iOS yesterday. If you're not familiar, Path is a social network that is limited to a set number of fri...

Think the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) needs to be fixed? Now's your chance to let Congress know how you feel. Sina Khanifar, an entrepreneur and the author of a recent White House petition urging the governmen...

News broke out today that Spotify would be making a beta version of its web player available to all of its users in the UK, with the promise that a full release would come later this year. I’m not complaining that...

During the Super Bowl, Oreo made a splash on Twitter with one well-placed ad — and you may be seeing more like it in your Twitter feed soon. Calendar Live, a new Twitter advertising tool from TBG Digital, lets adv...

In what could be the start of another possible installment of “Bloomberg knows best,” the New York mayor and New York City officials soon may be asking citizens to turn down those Beats or Skullcandy headphon...

Microsoft may have to pay out a a substantial €561 million (US$731 million) fine over its business practices. But the total bill could have been even higher, according to Europe's antitrust chief. The software gian...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: boring Higgs, power from whirlwinds, fiery ice fuel of the future, briny Europa, and more