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Over the past few months we've seen a real life blacksmith recreate weapons from video games, such as the Kingdom Hearts' Keyblade and the Minecraft Diamond Sword. Well blacksmith Tony Swatton is back in another episode ...

Avid Twitter followers saw the short reign of Egypt's Mohammed Morsi crumble in real time this afternoon, as the army overthrew the mostly tyrannical ruler. Twitter began auto-translating Morsi, who issued a string of de...

Categories: Industry Law News Tags: courtfinancialscandalfraudjapanlawolympusolympusfinancialscandalolympusscandalsentencing The Olympus financial scandal -- you know, the one that was discovered all the way back in Octo...

Yahoo said Friday that it has bought contact management specialist Xobni for an undisclosed amount, presumably to enhance Yahoo Mail and its related applications. But as to the future of Xobni's own products--well, that'...

These are the dangers of broadcasting court proceedings to the outside world: this morning during the very serious murder trial of George Zimmerman, things came to a screeching halt after Skype -- which was being used fo...

Apple has hired Paul Deneve, the now former CEO of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent. His new position has not yet been defined, but, in a statement provided to Bloomberg, the company said he will work on "special project...

We lost a great one Obit Douglas Engelbart, the creator of the computer mouse and the man who pushed the computer industry into the graphical user interface age, has died in his California home at the age of 88 from kidn...

Remember 1995? Yeah, me neither. But to refresh our memories, we've got an "In and Out" list from the December 20, 1995 edition of USA Today. This strange artifact (found in the University of California-San Francisco tob...

Yahoo users could soon have a better way to keep track of their online friends and to share photos and videos with them.

While webscale companies give big money to Fusion-io for its flash gear, the company's stock has wavered, pushing it to scramble amid a busy market.

You can find strange robotic beasts at both Burning Man and the Maker Faire, so it's only natural that Scott Parenteau took his sheet metal creation, the Walking Pod, to both. The robot, Parenteau tells Tested, is inspir...

There are some things money can't buy, but for everything else, including donations to Wikileaks, there's MasterCard. Wikileaks just published a statement on its website saying that the credit card company has finally re...

A diplomatic incident has exploded in Europe after a Bolivian presidential flight was diverted to Austria upon unfounded fears that the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, was on board. France and Portugal allegedly refus...

Boston University has sued Apple for allegedly infringing one of its patents to make the iPhone 5, iPad, and MacBook Air. In a suit filed yesterday, the university said that Apple was illegally using its '738 patent, whi...

Your dog can run, but it can't hide from Garmin's latest dog tracking collar. The DC 50 ups the game for the GPS company's satellite-friendly canine wearables, offering a more rugged, waterproof (up to 10 meters) design ...

dcblogs writes "The strike by San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers this week is a clear and naked display of union power, something that's probably completely alien to tech professionals. Tech workers aren...

Starting today, Limbo, the 2D side-scrolling game that both charmed and terrified us on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, is available for iOS devices. Dino Patti, the CEO of indie developer Playdead, tweeted the announcement ...

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Both Honda and GM have targeted a 2020 release of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

Free airport Wi-Fi sounds too good to be true, but a select group of 20 U.S. airports will soon be offering the service as part of a partnership with the digital advertising company MediaShift. It's called the Premier Ai...

Though Twitter is one of the few companies that lets its users opt out of browser tracking, the social network is gearing up to deliver advertisements based on that very technology and more. Twitter says that it'll soon ...

Samsung Electronics confirmed Wednesday that it had acquired assets and talent from Boxee, a video start-up. The acquisition should help Samsung improve software for its Internet-connected televisions.