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The next time you're in a class, lecture, meeting, or similar event, sit in the front row. As Spindows founder Clay Hebert points out, it can dramatically improve your experience. More

The lure of instant online shopping is made very clear by a survey that suggests 64 percent of women and 40 percent of men confess that shopping is a prime mood changer. But their shopping therapies differ.

A federal judge ruled in favor of the record industry's contention that a reseller of digital music infringed on copyright, rejecting startup ReDigi's contention that such virtual transactions were protected by the "firs...

Everybody can agree that Apple's next couple of iPhones need to be more than just iterative updates. From the design to the hardware to iOS, Apple clearly needs to do... more. But some people like to take that idea of "m...

Facebook introduced its overhauled News Feed in early March. If you're one of the few who can access the new design, you may wonder how the changes affect what surfaces on the homepage While Facebook's algorithms determi...

Gartner's list of the top tech trends of next year.

Is the world's largest online social network becoming less fun?

Planning to pick up a Samsung Galaxy S4 but want to get rid of TouchWiz the minute you get the phone home? Well you're in luck because it seems that thanks to the hardworking Android community, they have managed to root ...

AMD gave us a tease of its next-generation Steamroller architecture in 2012, but things weren't looking good for pro users when the initial timeline had current-generation Piledriver technology as the focus for Opterons ...

El Reg turns shipping agent to test price gouge explanations One of the fallback positions of IT vendors defending their high Australian prices has been to remind Australia that shipping and transport are expensive here....

By Tanya LewisLiveScienceClimate scientist James Hansen is retiring from NASA this week to devote himself to the fight against global warming.Hansen's retirement concludes a 46-year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for...

The office of Egypt's president disses American embassy's decision to retweet a link to an episode of the comedy news show tweaking the government.

As a followup to our post earlier today about former White House photographer Eric Draper's work, here's an interesting and relevant 17-minute-long story that aired on NPR in January of this year. It's an interview with ...

Most of us have experienced Star Wars (if you haven't, then stop reading this and get on that), but here's a whole new take on the epic galatic tale Bored Shorts TV asked kids to retell the crucial, and intense, scene fr...

Jane Nebel Henson, who partnered with her husband Jim Henson to launch the Muppets and worked to preserve his artistic legacy, died April 2 of cancer in Conn. She was 78. Born in Queens, N.Y., she met Jim Henson in a pup...

OK, nobody actually beat up Mark Zuckerberg but someone did plaster a series of posters that make it seem as though the Facebook founder had been beaten up. When in actuality it's the latest work of famed NYC graffiti ar...

In a boost to future secret agents and a blow to their would-be eavesdroppers, German researchers report sending the first successful quantum communications from a moving source -- an airplane traveling 180 miles-per-hou...

It's unfortunate, but true: Since venture capital funding rounds often provide a straightforward time to meet and report on growing tech companies, awesome bootstrapped startups sometimes slip under our radar here at Tec...

3D capable mobile displays haven't gained much traction in the market as yet, but there is a way to transform a standard mobile display in to a 3D capable one. Researchers based in Singapore have developed a special film...

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Father and son te...

Here's one bit of NASA outreach that won't be affected by suspensions or sequesters: an edited version of "We Are The Explorers," a video highlighting the past successes and future goals of the space administration -- cr...

Even the divorce process is getting easier thanks to technology....