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It turns out Microsoft was serious when it declared war on botnets: the company just announced that its Digital Crimes Unit has successfully disrupted more than 1,400 criminal networks. The company says the action was a ...

One of Reddit's most controversial forums, /r/atheism, is in an uproar after moderators chose to begin enforcing rules. The result is an intensely entertaining war over Reddit's own behavior.

Following yesterday's claim that three out of four major carriers in the U.S. throttle iPhone and iPad data speeds, AnandTech has investigated the issue and determined that the original assertion, which has since been de...

With more commerce moving online every day, the shipping industry is in need of innovation. And one of the bigger pain points developers face when trying to integrate postage and shipping into their applications involves...

Exercise confers huge health benefits, so why does it often feel like such a chore? Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman explains the paradox (full text available to subscribers)

Google continues to wow with new products and services, but now the company is adding a new feature to its core search advertising product: images. According to a Google blog post, it is rolling out a beta version of ima...

It's not easy being Nook. With Amazon Kindle's dominant share of the e-book market -- not to mention all of the exclusives Amazon is landing through its own publishing imprints and self-publishing platform -- the Barnes ...

From the MacBook Air to the Mac Pro desktop, some of Apple's computer lineup could benefit from updated designs.

The final piece of the total immersion puzzle -- an octagon-shaped movement-tracking treadmill -- makes a killer debut on Kickstarter.

One week before their legal battle was due to enter the courtroom, TiVo and Google have settled a Motorola patent infringement suit. Terms of the final agreement between TiVo and Google -- which at one point owned Motoro...

EA Maxis has announced today that the Mac version of its very popular but beleaguered PC game SimCity will be delayed until August, with no more specific date given. The developer had previously announced in April that t...

If they can defeat Loki's forces, The Avengers shouldn't have much trouble battling your child's fear of the darkness at night. At least not with these slick Avengers-themed LED-powered nightlights designed to look like ...

More and more video discovery apps are starting to pop up, with even big-name brands such as Samsung joining the race to have the best offering out there. But while this particular field is still relatively young, startu...

I've never seen an Arietid meteor and chances are you haven't either. Peaking on June 7-8, the Arietid (AIR-ee-uh-tid) meteor shower is one of the strongest of the year with a maximum rate of 50-80 per hour. But there's ...

It's been just under a year since Y Combinator-backed Kamcord officially launched, and the young team has spent its time raising funding and quietly fleshing out its SDK for iOS games. The team had seen its in-game scree...

The 220-story, 2,750-foot, 90-day Sky City construction project is a go. We've been following Chinese construction firm Broad Sustainable Building's ambitious plan to build the world's tallest skyscraper for a while now,...

By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comA mysterious object lurking near the young star Oph IRS 48 could, along with observations of dust grains, change our understanding of planet formation, astronomers said.Observations of the sys...

Microsoft has some explaining to do. Here's what we're expecting from team Xbox at E3 2013.

Whether it's a pocket knife, a Leatherman, or a Cybertool, many of us carry a multitool in case we suddenly need a sharp edge, a screwdriver, a corkscrew, or another tool to make a quick repair. This week, we want to kno...

It's sort of a utopian nerd dream, using the internet to be educated by the best universities in the world. We have online universities now, but they've become more targets of mean jokes than legitimate means to further ...

While Google leverages its phones and web services in the mundane service of advertising, executive chairman Eric Schmidt gives an almost mythological vision of the company's place in history. To Schmidt, Google's projec...

Staffing firm Robert Half argues that the tech economy is entering an era of hyperspecialization. The catch? These specialties can be automated, and without a broad range of skills it'll be hard to retool a career.