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Producers of educational videos and public-service announcements have been trying to teach kids to look both ways and stay away from strangers for decades. But between teaching children (and adults) the importance of goo...

Tim Schafer writes candidly about his game 'Broken Age' running out of money, but this is just the nature of the beast.

An anonymous reader writes "Following up on an experiment from December, Michael Hansen has recorded video of programmers of varying skill levels as the read and evaluate short programs written in Python. An eye tracker ...

When NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn embarked on his mission to the International Space Station last December, he could only take a few personal items. He stashed photos, stuffed animals from his kids and a book of puzzles ...

An online petition on the White House's "We the People" petitions website is urging President Barack Obama to change the U.S. national anthem from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Party In The U.S.A." by popstar Miley Cyru...

A one-of-a-kind solar-powered aircraft completed a two-month journey across the United States at just after 11pm EDT Saturday evening (3am GMT Sunday) when it landed at New York's JFK Airport. The landing came several ho...

World of Warcraft is known for its dedicated fan base, and we do mean dedicated. That South Park episode parodying how much players invest in the game isn't much of an exaggeration for some people. Regardless of your add...

CyanogenMod 10.1 builds now support integration of Google Voice SMS with the stock as well as third party messaging apps for rooted Android smartphones.

Social media captures the drama and sense of urgency in stories from Boston to Cairo.

The minute Dwight Howard decides to leave the Lakers for Houston, he is unfollowed on Twitter by Kobe Bryant. Then an Instagram account purporting to be that of the Lakers' Jodie Meeks posts a pic of Howard as a woman.

Instagram iOS app has been updated. The new update brings support for landscape orientation as well as the Cinema video stabilization feature for the front camera.

First time accepted submitter bmearns writes "I have some simple plain-text files (e.g., account information) that I want to print on paper and store in my firebox as a backup to my backup. What's the best way to encode ...

An Apple patent from December 2011 has been discovered which hints at the possibility of flexible batteries being used for the company's much rumored iWatch product.

Meshach writes "Some fans of The Simpsons have built a real-life version of Homer Simpson's dream car. In The Simpsons' world, Homer finds out he has a long, lost cousin named Herb Powell (voiced by Danny DeVito), who ow...

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse airplane suffered some damage during its Washington-to-New York flight on Saturday, forcing a slightly early end to its coast-to-coast, solar-powered odyssey.

This week I had a chat with Pierre Zarokian, CEO of Reputation Fighters (formerly SubmitExpress.com). Pierre recently did an interview with Search Engine Journal about the particular issues of Online Reputation Managemen...

Editor's Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. The unraveling of the Enron debacle in 2001 became a symbol of corporate scandals of that era. The effects were so decima...

McGruber writes "The Washington Post is reporting the existence of 'Team Telecom', lawyers from the FBI and the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, who ensure that Global Crossing and other foreign-own...

We're well aware that the availability of pornography is at an all time high these days. What might be less obvious is that the level of sexual crime is falling, falling like a stone actually, and has been for well over ...

Apple has begun expanding its iWork for iCloud beta, inviting developers free accounts to start testing the in-browser versions of Apple's Pages, Keynote and Numbers applications. Apple first unveiled iWork for iCloud at...

Microsoft today said it had received "a few submissions" so far for its Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) bug bounty program, the first for the company. "We've received a few submissions to date for the IE11 Preview Bug Bounty...

We all know that social media is the criminal's worst enemy. But this summer, a group of researchers are collaborating with police to test software that can reliably predict whether a person is part of a gang based on th...