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Did someone forget to use a coaster? If you've got a water stain on your wooden table that's causing you grief, a hair dryer can speed up the removal process.

Traditionally, Yahoo has let failed initiatives wither and die on the vine, but today the company's pulling a Google instead: it's publicly shutting down several projects all at the same time, in order to focus on other ...

Reuters accidentally published a pre-written obituary for George Soros on Thursday afternoon, declaring that the business titan had died at the ripe old age of "XXX." Soros is alive and 82 years old, as a spokesperson co...

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Today, Google quietly ushered in a new application built on top of its nonprofit arm, Google.org. The app is called One Today, and it's currently invite only for Android users at this time. The aim is to get people to do...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly met in 2011 and held a lengthy interview, according to a transcript published on the whistleblowing site. The leak is surprisingly timely -- Schm...

The beleaguered Boeing 787 Dreamliner could soon return to the skies. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Aviation Administration intends to approve the aircraft as soon as Friday, endorsing battery improvem...

Yahoo has created a pair of very attractive tablet and phone apps for its weather and email services, both available for download now. Both apps focus heavily on an eye-pleasing typographic layout and nice big images.The...

3D displays haven't exactly sold like hot cakes. But a glasses-free prototype with a wide viewing angle could change all that

Not a bad price for a $39m network build-out Choosing the small city of Provo, Utah as the next location to receive Google's high-speed fiber internet service must have been a no-brainer, as the online giant will reporte...

Obama's BRAIN Initiative directs $100 million in public money toward basic brain research. But what's the goal?

Pentax has released firmware updates for its K-5 II, K-5 IIs DSLRs and Q mirrorless cameras. Firmware version 1.04 for the K-5 II and IIs improves overall stability and resolves an issue where some of the controls stoppe...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is working with manufacturers to produce a line of small touch-screen devices powered by Windows, apparently intended to compete with 7-inch tablets like the iPad Mini and Amazon Kindle Fire. P...

A new ChangeWave survey shows that consumers have a similar level of interest in buying a rumored Apple iWatch, as were interested in buying an Apple tablet just before the iPad was announced. 19% of respondents indicate...

After mating, female Euxesta bilimeki flies often eject the sperm and eat it - a habit that seems to help them stave off thirst in the dry season

With the shared unveiling of Nokia's Lumia 720 and Lumia 520, the company's running flush of Windows Phone 8 models was complete. All WP8 handsets we've reviewed essentially fit into two distinct tiers based on shared co...

A federal judge has ruled that DC Comics holds the rights to Superboy and the 1938 advertisements that marked the first published appearances of Superman, rejecting efforts by the heirs to one of the Man of Steel's co-cr...

YouTube notched a major victory in its long-running copyright suit with Google. A New York judge emphatically rejected Viacom's theory that YouTube had "red flag" knowledge that made it liable for content uploaded by its...

Iceland has one of the planet's highest levels of Internet use, and the government's next act could be groundbreaking: There is legislation to ban all forms of digital porn.

Mobile advertising firm Velti has released its monthly report on advertising impressions across its network. The iPad is far and away the leader when it comes to the tablet market, and is gradually chipping away share fr...

Mobile users in North America are hanging up and using email, texting, or social networking at a rapid pace, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Postpaid subscribers, who pay a regular bill for mobile servic...

A malfunctioning log-in system affected millions of people's ability to access a variety of Google applications on Wednesday, including Gmail and Drive. The problem, which lasted for about three hours on Wednesday mornin...