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Facebook updated its Android app today, with a flurry of new features. The cutesy / creepy stickers that recently hit its messenger platform are now a part of its core application, along with the ability to delete unwant...

In a pre-Cannes move, Robert Downey Jr. has joined Jon Favreau's comedy "Chef," with production starting July 8 in Los Angeles.

Yesterday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed odd flakes floating about outside , which turned out to be ammonia leaking out of the radiator lines of the space station's power system. Now, after a ...

It's hard to imagine a more helpless situation than being stranded, floating alone, in the emptiness of space. That's the setting for Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón's new film, Gravity. According to a press rel...

A good sense of humor isn't just a way to make your workday more pleasurable, it can also help you perform better (and get ahead).

Yelp users have enjoyed advanced sorting for years, but as Foursquare grows beyond basic tips and incentivized check-ins, such search filters are making their way to that site, too. Today's announcement details a few han...

Reinventing health care begins with allowing patients to be part of the decision making process, as lab results become more meaningful than a set of numbers that can either fall below, above or in between the normal rang...

The U.S., Japan, Korea and Australia are the foci of LTE activity, accounting for 90 million of those subscribers, according to Wireless Intelligence.

Categories: Equipment Tags: announcementepl6olympusolympusepl6olympuspenolympuspenlitepenliterelease For those of you that were disappointed when you saw the price of Olympus' newly-announced E-P5 earlier, the company ha...

Records can be made out of just about anything: vinyl, 3D-printed plastic, paper, even ice. Over at Instructables, Amanda Ghassaei has set out to push the limits of music formats -- after trying out Joy Division and the ...

Google Glass is more than just a wearable camera -- it's a way to receive real-time coaching with video chats. CNET's Bridget Carey dons Glass and gets a lesson in archery while in a Google+ Hangout.

Google's YouTube is venturing into the world of paid subscription content with Thursday's announcement of a pilot run of paid channels. Subscription prices start at $.99 monthly, but many offer a discounted yearly rate. ...

SUNNYVALE -- Twitter has established its first presence in the South Bay by leasing an office in downtown Sunnyvale, and real estate agents said Thursday...

There aren't really any big stars in YouTube's initial wave of subscription channels, except for maybe Big Bird and Elmo. But Bob Johnson, who created BET in 1980, is banking on YouTube's pay-channel platform as a way to...

A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It's just one more way that data analysis is getting democratized.

With the announcement this week that a handgun made from a 3D printer fired successfully, 3D manufacturers may soon find themselves in a gray area when it comes to liability. From the looks of it, these companies aren't ...

On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes ...

Pope Celestine V was an elderly, possibly frail man. After living as a self-flagellating hermit in Italy, he served as pontiff for only five months...

Nokia has lifted the veil on its heavily rumoured and leaked Lumia 928 Windows Phone 8 device, which will go on sale in the US next week.

The new cloud offering will replace today's Visual Intelligence product.

Ted Ullyot will depart his post as the social network's head lawyer. Ullyot was the company's first general counsel and one of its first "grown-ups."

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Australia's Alice Corp does not hold valid patents on a computerized trading platform, but it remained unclear how the decision would affect other software patents...