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Not all search engines are created equal--and when it comes to Microsoft's Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google. More

As the vice president of video game retailer GameStop's mobile business, Joe Gorman has overseen the burgeoning electronics trade-in business as well as the sales of gaming tablets. Thanks in part to the wave of trade-in...

The Exploratorium, San Francisco's hands-on science and technology learning museum, is set to open up next week in its brand new location at Pier 15 right on the Bay, and we got the chance to head inside a few days early...

Cornell's new partner is the beating heart of start-up nation. What's the secret of its innovation success?

Given the popularity of the recent contest by Uwingu to suggest names for the closest known exoplanet to Earth (officially named Alpha Centauri Bb or ACBb for short), the International Astronomical Union has issued a sta...

Taking pictures of food is one of the tenets of Instagram (along with selfies, instabrags, #TBTs and the Kardashian family). But usually it's you taking your own Instagram picture of your own food. What happens when a gu...

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Hard times for dead-tree booksellers Sales of standalone e-readers might be declining, but ebooks make up a growing portion of sales for US book publishers, according to the latest stats from the Association of American ...

Let's all admit it: we love movie trailers. A minute or two of bite sized scenes showing off great looking shirtless actors with even better looking almost topless actresses combined with explosions, laughs, mind blowing...

Where do you like sitting on an airplane? At the very front or the very back? At a window or an aisle? According to research by British Airways, the most popular seats on a Boeing 747 are 51B/51C, 52B/52C, 51H/51J and 52...

It's really happening. Starting today, you'll be able to pick up an iPhone 5 with that Magenta hue. T-Mobile are offering the device both in retail and online, starting at $100 plus 24 monthly installments of 20 bucks. Y...

Business networking site LinkedIn did make a few quick rounds sometime in the middle of March this year concerning the possibility of them purchasing Pulse News for a cool $90 million. Well, I guess as with all other goo...

We know that Twitter bought music discovery app We Are Hunted and have heard that Twitter wanted to make its own standalone music app for some time now. That time is now. Or well, tomorrow. According to AllThingsD, Twitt...

If you've ever tried to organize a video game night for kids or adults, you know finding enough controls and couch space, along with games that everyone can agree on, is a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, GameTruck offers...

Imagine walking into a room and stumbling straight into a wasp nest that's nearly 22 feet big. That's what happened in the Canary Islands. Neighbors had been growing concerned over a vacant home so they notified the poli...

Twitter has been expanding its reach over the last year, and it's now moving into music: the company has just confirmed that it's acquired the team behind music discovery site We Are Hunted. The move was rumored by CNET ...

HoldFast Gear makes gear for photographers that you won't really find from other companies. Last year one of their big products was the MoneyMaker, a suspenders-style leather camera strap that looks like it popped out of...

Nicholas Felton, who came to fame through many super-detailed infographics and reports about his life as quantified through data, is leaving Facebook almost two years after being acq-hired to work on projects like Timeli...

Low utilization rates at Intel factories are a sign of bad times for the PC industry.

Polish up your battlefield command with Arma Tactics, coming soon to Google Play We're all patiently waiting for the release of NVIDIA's Project Shield, but seeing things like today's mention of the new game Arma Tactics...

One to 1.2 million Raspberry Pi microcomputers have shipped since the device's launch just over a year ago but where in the world are they located? While it's impossible to say exactly where each Pi has ended up, the vas...

In this week's Ask A VC show, Javelin Venture Partners' Managing Director Noah Doyle sat down to talk with us about why he started a venture firm, where the next innovations in mapping are coming from and more. Doyle has...