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With South by Southwest in full swing, what were the most-buzzed about topics in Austin on Saturday? The answer sounds like a David Bowie song: a party on Mars With almost all buzz coming from Twitter, the most popular t...

We may accept that the internet of things will become commonplace in the next few years, but how do we build out the network and processing required to support it?

When we put our mitts on the official BlackBerry Q10 design in January, it carried a "glass weave" back that was meant to convey a premium feel, not to mention give Bold 9900 series owners a sense of continuity. The crew...

British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C.

AUSTIN — The sun was out for day three festivities at SXSW and is expected to stay all week. Attendees can put their umbrellas away — well, at least 'til South By 2014. Cory Booker dominated trends on Masha...

When Mike Mika saw the disappointment on his daughter's face when she realized Princess Pauline wasn't a playable character in Donkey Kong, he felt a call to action. Thankfully Mika happens to be a competent developer, a...

If you're looking to see the most popular YouTube videos of the week, look no further. We're taken a different tact this week with our...

Slurp sparks states' slight slap Google is reportedly close to settling with the 30 US states that were pursuing it over the infamous StreetView Wifi data slurp.…

Each year, photographer and cinematographer Toby Lockerbie gets away for a couple of weeks to shoot something challenging and “rediscover the magic” of his art. This year, he went to Norway to exercise his lo...

It's always a pleasure to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, as he's one of the more interesting and friendly people in the upper echelons of the tech founder sphere. So we took a few minutes to meet up with him t...

In a keynote at SXSW Sunday, NYT columnist David Carr recalled the launch of the paper's paywall during SXSW two years ago. "The theologists of free," he said, believe that "you keep things free, and eventually somebody ...

Click here to view this gallery Have you heard about RebelMouse, the social media aggregator — or "social front page" — created by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry? Based on the idea that people's pers...

Spring forward, fall back — daylight saving time is our only brush with defying the laws of nature. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics It's no Quantum Leap, but we'll just have be satisfied Comic written by Larry Lamber...

The standard crop of 3D printers are all well and good, but what about those times when you need to print something really, really big? Gigabot's hoping to fill in that gaping void with a build envelope of 24 x 24 x 24 i...

Everyone has at least one. Stock apps and don't count; you get those for free. You are given a brand new phone of your choice running its stock OS, and you are allowed to install one and only one app on it. What do you p...

CNET reports that during a talk at SXSW, Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of product, said that the company has no plans to release an iOS version of Firefox because of technological limitations imposed by Apple. T...

When white smoke billows out of the Sistine Chapel's chimney, signifying that a new pope has been chosen, thousands of people will get a text message and an email.

Samsung has been using a fictional game called "Unicorn Apocalypse" in a barrage of internet and TV commercials lately, and has followed up on it by actually releasing the game in the Play Store. In the commercials, Sams...

Whether you're job searching or have a pending friend request from your boss, it's a good idea to clean up your social media profiles every once in a while. After all, even if you're pretty militant about what gets poste...

The best way to get the attention of a bunch of sleep-deprived, possibly hungover SXSW Interactive attendees? Coffee-slinging robotic arms, naturally. GE's fully embracing Austin's caffeinated food trick culture with a p...

For her project titled “Identities,” London-based photographer Ana Oliveira created a series of before and after photos that show the effects of time and aging. The before image in each diptych is a portrait ...

A judge in Ohio says what so many have been thinking, but never expected to hear from a judge. He described them as "nothing more than a high-tech game of 3-card Monty." [Read more]