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Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Spring may have sprung two weeks...

commentary Purging mass media of hurtful opinions would deny everyone important knowledge. Simply put, says author Greg Lukianoff, it's far better to know that there are bigots among us than to pretend all is well.

According to rumors, Google is negotiating an acquisition of popular cross platform messaging service WhatsApp. The deal reportedly started over a month back. As it now stands, the WhatsApp team is rumored to be "playing...

Boeing's troubles with the battery system on its latest 787 Dreamliner aircraft have been well documented. Back in January the global fleet of 50 Dreamliner aircraft was grounded due to incidents caused by the batteries ...

By Marc LallanillaLiveScience Every animal with bones has blood with hemoglobin, which binds with oxygen and makes the blood appear red.Every animal, that is, except one.The ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus)...

3D printing is still in its relative infancy, but more and more folks are using machines like the MakerBot Replicator and Formlab's Form 1 to turn digital plans into physical reality. An Autodesk engineer named Evan Athe...

Last summer, Verizon users who wanted an LTE-capable flagship had a stark choice: Samsung's Galaxy S III, or the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. When we reviewed the latter handset, we found it comfortable in the hand, with a p...

It was an interesting week for apps. After a long-standing dispute with Apple, Microsoft finally updated SkyDrive for iOS. Disney released a new mobile game featuring a high-flying cat named Mittens, and vintage-favorite...

The locked and encrypted bootloader on several popular Motorola phones has been exploited, but OMAP powered phones need not apply If you're using a Droid RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD, Atrix HD, or RAZR M here's a potentially go...

Move over, Apple and Samsung. While two of tech's biggest companies are reportedly developing smart watches, LinkMe has already gotten a head start LinkMe is a Bluetooth-enabled device that lets users view incoming text ...

Microsoft is of the view that Facebook Home imitates Windows Phone and that the launch event for Facebook's new Home on Android "was remarkably similar" to the launch event the Redmond based company did for its Windows P...

For the first time ever, the new and fully integrated commercial Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences was rolled out to its oceanside launch pad on a rather chilly Saturday morning (April 6) and erected at the very e...

The first British church service has been held using hand-held computers instead of Bibles and hymn books

Along with announcing pricing and a release date for its new 4K LED televisions, Sony has announced more details about its previously-unnamed 4K FMP-X1 media player at NAB 2013. The device looks like the same puck-like p...

In a preliminary decision, a judge of the International Trade Commission said that Samsung is infringing a very crucial part of a patent held by Apple, by adding text-selection feature in its devices which include both t...

Sony was among the manufacturers showing off its 4K TVs at CES 2013, and the company has announced today that its 55-inch and 65-inch models are set to arrive in stores next month. Information The Bravia XBR-55X900A and ...

An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore ther...

The $25,000 pricetag attached to Sony's 84-inch UltraHD set--the one that's been haunting your dreams since CES--may put that super-sized set out of your financial reach but that doesn't mean everything 4K is prohibitive...

Any tips on how to make our office's complimentary coffee better? I got a great deal on Amazon, but now they want to buy the item back. What do I do? More

The hacktivist collective claims to have caused more than $3 billion in damage in protest against treatment of Palestinians, but officials say the disruption has caused minimal disruption.

What if the Beatles had lived in an alternative universe, and the group's 1968 megahit "Hey Jude" was not intended to cheer up John Lennon's son Julian, but to sound like a funeral dirge? That's just what you'll get with...

They've been husband and wife for nearly 30 years, and now, thanks to "Assisted Living," being given its world premiere at L.A.'s Odyssey Theater, Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley are co-authors and co-stars. He's one of H...