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The first demo at Apple's WWDC conference keynote last Monday wasn't an Apple demo. Instead, it was from a stealthy startup showing off its stuff in public for the first time. The startup is named Anki, and the stuff was...

Rodrigo Reyes' "Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border" is a searing, horrifying, at times starkly beautiful documentary ode to the netherworlds surrounding the U.S.-Mexico barrier, and it often feels cruelly...

Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday. Some of those investigations...

For the most part, we humans are better at things than we were thousands of years ago. But there are some things the ancients had down pat. Roman concrete, for instance, is just way better than anything we can whip up to...

Categories: Post-Processing Tips Tutorials Walkthroughs Tags: daytonightdaytonighttimelapsenightodayprestonkanaktimelapsetutorial The know-how to properly shoot day-to-night or night-to-day when you're capturing a time-l...

The NSA (and who knows who else) has made a habit of perusing our collective emails, we now know. Which makes it a perfect time to brush up on electronic security.

Mathemati-phobes rejoice. If a new study is right, you may one day get to swap coffee and cramming for a trusty set of head-mounted electrodes. According to a team of researchers, hailing from the UK and Austria, non-inv...

Sparkle, Internet execs, sparkle!

Three Purdue students have been accused of entering their professor's computer and changing their grades -- even A to A+. They're said to have switched out the professor's keyboard to log keystrokes and glean passwords.

When (not if) you lose everything on your phone or tablet, you'll be thankful you backed up the important things We just got another heart-breaking email from a reader who has lost all their pictures and video because th...

Categories: Culture Ideas Inspiration Tags: charitablecharitychildrendevelopingcountrieseyeamjenslennartssonorganizationsarahansson Sara Hansson and Jens Lennartsson feel that the media at large has painted an unfair and...

commentary Apple design strengths are also in hard-to-see places. Hmm... I think Steve Jobs once said something like that.

The debate about the NSA spying program feels like a bad game of charades. Members of Congress and leaders of three-letter agencies keep saying how much they welcome public debate about spying, then immediately regrettin...

Categories: Walkthroughs Tags: basketballbehindthescenesbtscovernbaphotoportraitsanantoniospurssportsillustrated With the NBA Conference playoffs nearing completion and the Spurs already a lock for the Finals, I got a ca...

Editor's note: Chris Moore is a partner at Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on making investments in consumer Internet, online marketing and SaaS companies. This year alone, there is an $11.4 billion mobile advertising...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. What goes up must eventually come down, and shortly after landing on Terra Firma from his last of three ISS missions, Chris...

Fishing rods can be unwieldy to pack and carry around, especially if you're transporting a lot of them. Luckily, you can keep them organized and upright with this DIY PVC holder.

Know everything you would ever want to know about your device hardware with CPU-Z The folks at CPUID have been around for a while. Folks using Windows computers have been using their software to get information for overc...

Great news: half our senators skipped out on a briefing about NSA snooping so they could get home sooner!

Forget wireless Internet, search-engine giant Google now wants to produce balloon-powered Internet for rural areas. The company today announced the start of Project Loon, a plan to send large floating balloons into the s...

Well, tomorrow's Father's Day and while it's almost too late to get a gift, it's not late enough to brush it off entirely without at least spending a minute or two trying to come up with something quick. Whaddoya got?

As anger continues to foment over the US National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs, a confidential briefing on the topic held Thursday was attended by only 47 of 100 US senators. The Hill reports tha...