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Gigabyte loves to pull out all the stops at Computex, and this year is no exception: the company just unveiled 11 (mostly) new laptops and tablets. According to a brochure on hand at the computer maker's demo table, the ...

Roger Cicala of Lensrentals has published a blog post in which he gives his first impressions of the new Carl Zeiss 32mm F1.8 'Touit' lens, in Sony E-mount. Unlike Roger's normal approach, where he exhaustively tests mul...

Social game monolith Zynga plans to shutter its New York City, Dalles and Los Angeles game development studios. Sources at Zynga confirmed the closures to Engadget, and also confirmed reports of layoffs affecting 520 emp...

One day, cameras may be able to capture less data but produce images that look just as good as a traditional photo. Bell Labs is the latest to attempt such a feat, and it's doing so while eschewing another major camera s...

Broadcom has focused most of its 802.11ac WiFi efforts this year on high- and low-end mobile chips. Today, it's swinging that attention back to bigger machinery like PCs and set-top boxes. The company's new BCM4350, BCM4...

The Aspire S7 was, for many of us, the best ultrabook of the Ivy Bridge CPU generation. No Windows laptop before it had ever been quite so thin, beautiful and robust, and while the S7 could clearly match aesthetics with ...

Last year, Acer's Aspire S7 surprised us by bringing a whole new level of design finesse to the company's laptop line, with solid build quality and an eye-catching anodized aluminum chassis. This year, the company is ite...

France's first online election was marred this week when reporters found that the supposedly fraud-proof system could be easily gamed, letting people vote multiple times in an important primary for the office of Paris Ma...

Careful what you put between your iPhone and a power outlet: That helpful stranger's charger may be injecting your device with more than mere electrons.

All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and d...

Broadway box office slipped in the wake of Memorial Day weekend, with most shows on the boards reporting declines for the first week of the 2013-14 season. With overall attendance down, it helped to be one of the Main St...

The government presented evidence that executives of big book publishing companies discussed raising e-book prices at Apple's behest before the introduction of the iPad.

Categories: Inspiration Tags: astronomyastrophotographyauroramikehollingsheadnightskyphenomenonraresprite Check out this aurora photograph captured last Friday night by photographer Mike Hollingshead. See those small red...

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There's science, and there's magic. And incredibly, this is the the first one. Behold the thermal tiles NASA used to protect shuttles from totally disintegrating on their way back to Earth. Awesome.

Game of Thrones viewers had their minds blown during Sunday's "The Rains of Castamere" episode, which many people online are referring to as the "Red Wedding" episode Across social media, fans quickly expressed their dis...

Zynga, the social gaming services company, is laying off 18 percent of its employees in an effort to reduce its cost structure. CEO Mark Pincus announced the layoffs Monday in a note to employees posted on the company's ...

After a Brazilian cat was caught by security guards smuggling a cell phone and charger into a prison, authorities in Northern Russia say they've intercepted a similar feline felon.

Stratolaunch has solidified its partnership with Orbital Sciences Corp. to develop a new rocket capable of launching into orbit from what will be the world's widest airplane."We've been together now for nine months and w...

By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comDid Neil Armstrong's famous first words spoken on the moon include the "a" in "one small step for a man" or not? Debated for more than four decades, the answer may be found in the astronaut'...

The company's latest design-focused notebook showpiece is extremely slim, and will be available in Q3 this year.

A respectable bump in internals and design to the previous model ASUS is currently giving its keynote presentation at Computex 2013 in Taipei where it has just rolled out the first of a few new Android devices, the refre...