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If you've been spending too much time in bars lately--and we certainly hope you have been--you've likely noticed the rise of barrel-aged cocktails. The technique takes some of your favorite mixed drinks, mellows them out...

The just-announced PowerEdge VRTX is more than just a small blade chassis.

For most beginning hardware hackers, Arduino is hard and Linux/Android is easy. The folks at UDOO, a Kickstarter project that ends tonight, aim to solve that by mixing the best of both worlds. The UDOO device contains an...

Samsung Galaxy S4 owners with no affinity for wires, you're in luck: Samsung has made available its wireless charging kit for the device, priced at $90 The kit, first unearthed by Droid Life, consists of a charging cover...

The on-again-off-again status of NYC's e-hail pilot program is now, well, back on. A New York state court has just lifted a temporary restraining order brought on by the city's livery cab companies that halted the year-l...

Blackberry Q10 Unboxing | A look at what's inside the Blackberry Q10 box and our first impressions of the Q10 after we first booted it.

Solve Media, a startup that turns CAPTCHA verification systems into ads, says that it's growing quickly. There were more than 1 billion engagements with Solve's Type-In ads last year, the company says. It will exceed tha...

The latest in a string of audience-of-none, end-is-nigh indie dramedies, "Rapture-Palooza" strains to find comedy in the book of Revelation, tracking a contempo young couple besieged by CG locusts, rains of blood and a h...

There will always be Apple fanboys and Apple haters, but both factions -- and everyone in between -- can sense that Apple is at a turning point. Like other companies that have achieved monster profits through innovation,...

Information obtained under the National Security Agency's recently revealed PRISM Internet surveillance program foiled a planned terrorist attack on New York City's subway system, according to a report. The information h...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the latest tech company CEO to vehemently deny granting government access to its servers. In a post today, he said he wanted to "respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PR...

How does raw data from the Hubble Space Telescope end up to become a finished gorgeous color image, like the one of Arp 274, above? It's an interesting process, because the cameras on Hubble do not take color pictures. T...

In my travels, I've reviewed a lot of iOS styluses for those who want to sketch, write, or paint on their devices. But I've never really played around with styluses on the Windows and Android side of the aisle--unless yo...

A plausible account of the technical and institutional details from a long-time national security reporter.

A lot of people are so angry about the government's "spying" programs that they're not really seeing the bigger picture. The big picture is that government surveillance is good. Yes, good.

By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comWe might find aliens through the heat their civilizations give off, astronomers say, but it will take a megatelescope to do the job. Such a telescope, in fact, is planned.The telescope -- call...

One man's trash is another man's treasure: Deutsche Telekom could finally exit the U.S. market With its attempted purchase of Sprint potentially in jeopardy, SoftBank is actively considering buying T-Mobile US as a fall-...

My favorite social network vaporized overnight. It just disappeared. No, I'm not talking about MySpace -- I'm talking about what recently happened to Flickr, the photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo.

Heavy readers still find dedicated ebook readers to offer the best electronic experience. The Kobo Aura HD is the best device available today, in terms of high end book hardware.

It's the end of the week, which means it's time to take a look back at some of the latest trailers to make the rounds!

There exists a scourge in professional basketball these days, one that threatens the very sanctity of the game itself. No, we're not talking about performance enhancing drugs (at least not yet). We're talking about flopp...

"If you're in this room, you're the best of the best," Chris Anderson addressed the audience with his customary flair for the dramatic. Complimentary, sure, but not without merit -- the former Wired editor-in-chief was s...