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A group of 27 organisations - including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation - have written to the web standards body W3C urging it to reject proposals that would make it easier to support ...

The 42nd President of the United States and the man with the most endearing lip bite in the world, William Jefferson Clinton, has officially jumped into the 21st century by joining Twitter. The Prez has already racked up...

In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal abruptly cut off donation payments to WikiLeaks, crippling its source of funds. Today, however, some more of those donations may be returning due to a decision at Iceland's S...

Expands cloud monitoring tech with "Virgo" agent project Rackspace has broadened the capabilities of its cloud monitoring technology by letting admins put an agent on their servers to get a clearer idea of how apps are u...

NASA scientists and the space-loving public are eagerly awaiting the moment when the unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first vessel in human history to exit the solar system, which is expected some time in the ne...

CISPA, the controversial cybersecurity legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week, may be effectively dead for now. US News has reported that the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by Senator Jay Rockefe...

Just like last year, we're reporting on a revision Sony's making to its expectations for last year's profits, but this time around there's some positive news. According to Sony, selling some of the buildings it owns and ...

By Denise ChowSpace.comThe sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the planet Mercury in recent days, solar storms that may pass one NASA spacecraft while dealing a glancing blow to another, NASA officials say...

Looking for a darkening moon? Thursday's partial lunar eclipse will be particularly subtle, and it won't be visible at all from North America -- but you can still catch the show, such as it is, on the Web.Lunar eclipses ...

ABC News has announced a new app called Social Soundtracker that will allow viewers to tap buttons -- "clap," "boo," "laugh," "gasp," and "aww" -- in order to express how they feel while watching the news. Coming soon as...

A unique and exotic laboratory about 6,800 light-years from Earth is helping Earth-based astronomers test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in ways not possible until now. And the observations exactly match ...

While Philips did eventually bring its Ambilight technology to PC monitors, it wasn't before others had decided to roll their own. Now you can add ambient backlighting to any computer display without any of the attendant...

Earlier this month, a report revealed that Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus in Cupertino is both behind schedule and $2 billion over budget. Apple was said to be looking to cut costs on the project, which is apparent ...

Back in 2010, Google launched Instant Preview to provide users with a quick way to get a graphic preview of a webpage before you click on the actual link. Now, as first spotted by Alex Chitu from the Google Operating Sys...

Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Ch...

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Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's chief product officer, also tells CNET that devices running Intel's mainstream Core line of processors could sell for as low as $399 to $499.

If the economy is to get stronger, charging consumers more when they're already struggling to afford goods and services is not a wise move. Even brick-and-mortars won't win. Here's why.

Researcher Flurry reported on Thursday that the audience for mobile apps has hit 58 million in primetime -- 8 p.m. -- a figure that rivals that of the top three TV networks on a very good night, but revenues are still ju...

Panasonic is not ceasing plasma development. But what happens when they do?

By Tanya LewisLiveScienceAn exotic cat that prowled the British countryside a century ago was a non-native lynx from Canada, a new study finds.The feline's skeleton and mounted skin have been tucked away for years in the...

By Clara MoskowitzLiveScience Matter and antimatter particles are behaving differently inside a giant atom smasher in Switzerland, physicists announced Wednesday. The discovery could help solve the riddle of why the univ...