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Google Street View has extended its reach to the abandoned island of Hashima, Japan, which served as the setting for Raoul Silva's "Dead City" retreat in 007: Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie. Also known as Gunkanjim...

Proudrooster writes "As technologists, developers, and programmers it is essential to keep moving forward as technology advances so that we do not find ourselves pigeonholed, irrelevant, or worse, unemployed. If you had ...

We've been fans of Aaron Johnson's comic strip 'What the Duck' for years. 'WTD' is one of the best satirical comic strips in the world, and it's published here every week, as well as being included in our weekly newslett...

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A scene from a video designed to induce ASMR, "Space Travel Agent" The barber turns on his trimmers. Click. Bzzzzzzzzz. He brings them closer and closer to my ears. He moves from one side of my head to the other. The gen...

Internet trolls have found their way out of online forums and into yearbooks. Forget the cookie-cutter inspirational quotes that usually sit under student portraits and prepare yourself for pop culture allusions, meme re...

Categories: Educational Tags: astronomyinterestingphotonsciencesensorsunlighttrivia How long does it take for a photon from the Sun to reach your camera sensor (or film) and help form a photograph? If you answered "8 min...

I like to try and remain optimistic about companies because I realize that true innovation can often trump market trends and be a catalyst for growth. But since the the beginning of the year, I have been observing a ...

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins this morning on the company's quarterly earnings call reminded us that BBM -- that's BlackBerry Messenger -- will be available for Android and iOS "before the end of the summer." He didn't g...

Remember yesterday we reported that Valve had denied Half-Life 3 rumors? This was after Korean words started popping up in Half-Life 2, and many had speculated that this was Valve teasing an announcement. However a Valve...

In an attempt to keep classified information on the NSA's vast and varied spying programs off of unauthorized computers, the US Army is blocking access to the website of UK newspaper The Guardian. Writing to the Monterey...

It's 2013. We should all know that there are clear differences between calling something a nerd and calling someone a geek. This is a fact! Slackpropagation created this nifty graph that shows the dividing line on what d...

The US military is in the process of building its own secure 4G wireless network and is also updating its rules of engagement -- the guidelines that combat personnel are required to follow when deciding how and when to u...

Podcast MP3 URL: ://traffic.libsyn.com/androidcentral/acpc140.mp3 Thing 1: Google Play experience devices First look: Google Play edition HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 New stock camera app debuts in Google Play edition G...

News Corp.'s education division Amplify is the latest to roll out a massive open online course (MOOC) for high school students.

What you say on Facebook could land you in jail. That's the tough lesson that a Texas teenager learned in February, when an online argument with a friend led to his arrest. He's now awaiting trial and faces eight years i...

Richard Nanula, who took a leave of absence from Colony Capital earlier this week amid the emergence of sexually explicit photos posted online, was the subject of a sexual harassment suit that a paralegal at his company ...

Microsoft demonstrated its new Mail app for Windows 8.1 earlier this week during the Build keynote, but the company has started to share even more details about the upcoming overhaul. While the Mail app has gradually bee...

As expected, in amongst the high profile acquisitions that have thus far marked the next step in Yahoo's evolution, the web company is doing some serious house cleaning. EVP Jay Rossiter took to the exclamatory search co...

The secret court that oversees national security surveillance requests allowed Yahoo to acknowledge its role in fighting, unsuccessfully, against the government's collection of information used in the Prism program.

Gawker will give $200,000 to charity after no one came forward to produce a video showing the mayor of Toronto smoking crack.

While iOS apps like Evernote and Instapaper are able to provide users with in-app auto-renewing monthly subscriptions for services, the same functionality is not available in the Mac App Store at the current time. For ex...