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Joe Doucet's circular mirror isn't water-logged for nothing. He designed it as a reminder of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in lower Manhattan (where his studio is) and generally on the east coast.

Using tactics that included luring diplomats into fake internet cafes, The Guardian reports that British intelligence spied on major world leaders during the 2009 G20 summit in London. The revelation is based on document...

There's no need to go through yet another laundry list of the Xbox One's potential problems, but there is one that's getting overlooked in favor of the larger issues of price and DRM. It's the way Microsoft is limiting i...

A team of archaeologists from Australia has discovered an ancient city that had been buried under the jungles of Cambodia for more than 1,000 years. The 1,200-year-old city, known as Mahendraparvata, was uncovered in the...

Rejoice fellow space and brick nutters, because Lego is going release an official Mars Curiosity set! The original model was designed by Stephen Pakbaz, an actual NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's mechanical engineer who ...

Editor's note: Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Why do some companies, products and services get more word of mouth ...

Since the story broke last week of the NSA's secret compilation of Americans' phone call metadata, the overwhelming response from government has been "nobody is listening to your telephone calls" -- that the data being c...

Over 48,000 video game developers, journalists, retailers and publishers from 102 countries descended upon Los Angeles last week for the E3 convention, all anxious to...

As we approached the giant radio telescope in rural Sardinia, I found myself implausibly dressed in a light summer frock: a Brazilian one, lavishly decorated...

The grooviest remastered LPs for analog connoisseurs.

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Throughout the history of home game consoles, it's been notoriously difficult for a leader in one generation to maintain its leadership in...

Digital Diplomacy is a topic that conjures up images of embassies conversing with foreign governments and broadcasting information and well -- propaganda -- to impact policy goals. But you don't have to be a government o...

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E3 was wild and loud, and Sony seemed to rise while Microsoft fell low. Yet it doesn't really change anything as regards the long-term future of big budget consoe games. With costs continuing to escalate and the break-ev...

Gemalto, based in Amsterdam, develops digital security systems and network security. Gemalto's solutions sales manager for M2M, Lakhi Baug, talks about how machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems are used to prese...

As a stay-at-home dad, what could I do to earn a little side money? Any other homebrewers here? I'm trying to clone Heady Topper. Is there an easy way to sync music with an iPod from two different computers? What are som...

The critically acclaimed and bestselling Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson will be released as a paperback on September 10 by Simon & Schuster, the publisher said on Sunday. According to All Things D, Simon & Schus...

This coming Friday night, I'll be at the API Days conference in San Francisco to talk for a few minutes about my perspectives of the API economy. I am not a developer -- just an observer -- so my views are not deeply tec...

How does the airport of the future preoccupy customers as they wait in never-ending lines? A handful of companies think the answer is an always-smiling, always-working human hologram. The virtual assistants are projected...

A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children's biometric information being culled without their parents' permission, TheLedger.com reported.

FourSquare makes keeping track of where your friends are effortless, but what if you're not feeling particularly social on a given day? Hell is Other People is "an experiment in anti-social media" according to its develo...

The next time you open a gallon of milk, be sure to save the plastic ring. It can really come in handy when you need to move a tray of baked goods.