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Despite countless architectural renderings to the contrary, the top of a skyscraper is actually a terrible place for trees. Tim de Chant breaks down all the reasons in Arch Daily, citing brutal winds that buckle tree tru...

The world has a new lightest solid material. Graphene aerogel weighs just 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimetre, making it just twice as dense as...

This board of tiles, or Azulejos which is a form of Portugese artwork that involves tilework, is making my brain lose its gray matter. The tile board somehow maintains the same number of tiles even when some individual t...

Vool is a handsome laptop stand that might ease the strain on your back and shoulders. More »

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments should be restored so...

One writer thinks so. A look at how it impacts the tech giant's bottom line.

These sand sculptures were prepared as part of this year's Hollywood-themed Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival on March 26, 2013 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. All week, 20 award-winning sand sculptors from across...

Back in 2007, Lindy Scallan went to Hawaii for a vacation and took her camera along. After putting the camera in its underwater housing, she went scuba diving but unfortunately lost her camera. Thinking it was gone forev...

Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses. A company spokesperson told me the feature is important for two reasons. First...

Starting today, Facebook is launching a new threaded Replies commenting system for users with more than 10,000 followers as well as Pages linked to brands and businesses. By placing the most "liked" conversation logs at ...

The Portland-based Vizify came out of TechStars' accelerator in 2011 with the goal of helping everyday people turn their personal data -- the stuff that's fragmented across scores of profiles, networks and websites -- in...

Take a moment to appreciate the circle of life by watching this baby giraffe stand up. It's truly a precious moment, during which we dare you to not say "aww" five times The calf's mom, Petal, is a 6-year-old endangered ...

The latest update to Chrome offers a boon to grammarians everywhere: an improved homonym- and spell-checking function, right in your browser. [Read more]

Y Combinator Demo Day, where 47 startups are taking the stage to pitch investors and press, continues to roll along. Here are short descriptions of the second group of presenting companies (the descriptions in the hea...

Can (and should) video games teach history and politics? [Read more]

In case you haven't heard, there's a new iPhone in townT-Mobile announced today it would begin selling the iPhone 5, becoming the last major wireless carrier in the U.S. to do so. But it changes things for other iPhone c...

As a federal agency, NASA can't run commercials -- a problem both for rallying broader public support and fostering the next generation of astronauts. The Aerospace Industries Association has both cultural and very pract...

Sick of feeling like an offline showroom for online buyers, a specialty food store in Australia institutes a $5 showrooming fee for shoppers. [Read more]

Google knows what’s popular. After all, they are in the business of Internet search results. GIFs are what the people want and after implementing a specific GIF search feature into their image search page, Google ...

You'll have to queue up in a line to get it, but the new Tempo calendaring app for iPhone is worth the wait.

Sunday morning: time to survey the damage from last night’s party. As I walked around the apartment picking up empty beer bottles and cups, wiping up spills, and putting the furniture back, I remember having a dis...

Most of us have faced that sense of dread that comes when our phones lay drained and dysfunctional right when we need them the most. Sure, we could beat ourselves up for not charging them as long as we should have (or pe...