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The OUYA game console is shifting its launch from June 4th to June 25th, the company revealed in a press release this morning. Speaking with our friends at Joystiq, CEO Julie Uhrman explained the decision to push the con...

If lightsabers ever become real, and let's be honest some genius will dedicate his entire life into making that happen, I hope the entire world will be well practiced in how to handle them. Sure the ballet of Star Wars c...

The set piece for the shuttlecraft that ferried Spock, Scotty, and more than a handful of other crew members to-and-from the USS Enterprise has largely sat unused and in disrepair since the original Star Trek series ende...

Today is just jam-packed full of acquisition-shutdowns. Just hours ago, word broke that Yahoo! had acquired both MileWise and Go Poll Go, with plans to discontinue both service. Next up on the happy-now-sad-users-later t...

Microsoft has put forward an offer to buy complete control of Nook Media LLC, according to internal documents seen by TechCrunch. Redmond's joint venture with Barnes & Noble was set up last year to handle the Nook e-read...

For the past several years, my New Year's resolution has been some version of "cook more often" or "try a new recipe every week." But it never really lasts. As much as I love the act of actually cooking, so much about it...

The company might create a monster out of Graph Search, but the pieces aren't yet in place to start calling winners. Remember that when reading about Facebook killing Google, or Foursquare killing Yelp, or anyone killing...

CheckinDJ uses music preferences from social network profiles to create Spotify playlists for coffeeshops and other venues.

AeroPress, French press, drip, pod, there are tons of ways to make great coffee. We've talked about all of the elements involved in a great cup of coffee, but one of those elements is the tool you use. Choose your weapon...

New film projects from Zach Braff and a Warner Bros.'s revival of the "Veronica Mars" franchise are having a spillover effect at Kickstarter, the company's founders claimed in a blog post issued on the crowdfunding websi...

Cody Wilson, the mind behind the "Liberator," the world's first 3D-printed handgun, said he didn't know what would happen once he upload the blueprints for the gun online Now he does The Department of State, through its ...

In a pre-Cannes move, Los Angeles-based Epic Pictures Group has partnered with Norwegian-based Yesbox Prods. to finance and produce an English-language sequel to Aleksander Nordaas' thriller "Thale." The companies will s...

Meet Austrian-bred (but German-born) producer, composer and musician Patrick Pulsinger. He is a huge but really awesome nerd when it comes to modular synthesizers, and here he is, trying to explain how it all works to a ...

That didn't take long -- just days after its first test fire, the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol designed by Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson, has caught the attention of the federal government. It's hardly a surp...

Apple still needs the other major labels, but this brings it a step closer to launching its Internet radio service.

The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property.

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The Liberator pistol, first revealed barely a week ago, has caught the eye of federal authorities. Cody Wilson, head of gun-printing group Defense Distributed, says he received a letter from the US State Department, aski...

The introduction of voice biometrics to gain access to bank accounts could mean that customers no longer need to remember pin codes or the answers to a plethora of security questions.

As far as viral memes go, the "Harlem Shake" is pretty much dead. And when these latecomers decided to incorporate what looks like a firecracker...

Two UK universities are to receive millions of pounds of investment to help finance tens of PhDs in online security.

Back when it launched, Sony's PlayStation 3 was something of a technological marvel for a home console -- and it had the price to match. Despite a starting price of $499, Sony still lost money on the console, but it does...