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It's been nearly a year since Intellectual Ventures announced its satellite communications spinoff Kymeta, but a recent round of funding from heavyweight backers is about to give the company some serious momentum. In a p...

T-Mobile US is promising to make its "boldest moves yet" at a press conference in New York City tomorrow afternoon. Fresh off a completed acquisition of MetroPCS, the carrier will once again attempt to distinguish itself...

There's a video game called Watch_Dogs which views Chicago as a city where everyone and everything is linked through a central network--like something out of a sci-fi film. But to tie in with the games, the developers ha...

Well Seamless, it looks like Yelp will see your online food orders and raise you a trip to the yoga studio to burn off that bean burrito. Today the online repository of business reviews launched Yelp Platform, an online ...

At Dropbox's first DBX developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Drew Houston announced a new Dropbox Platform, which has a suite of tools to make it easier for apps to access data across devices and operating systems. ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has at last begun her epic trek to the layered slopes of mysterious Mount Sharp - the mission's primary destination which looms supreme inside the Gale Crater landing site. Scientists expect to dis...

World War Z continues the trend of making zombies more than just shambling, shuffling biters. As we said in our review of the film, they move fast and swarm like deadly, human-sized fire ants. To achieve that effect, it ...

Putting a movie theater in your home doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg, but you will need a great projector. Last week we asked you which ones you thought were best . Then we took a look at the five best home theater...

After the introduction of a new kind of atomic clock, the world's most expert timekeepers are considering making an update to how we measure a simple second. It would be more accurate, sure. But it would also force us re...

As conflicting reports emerge about the political status of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden today, President Obama's new pick to lead the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey, just told a US Senate comm...

Smart diapers won't check your email or tweet about their contents (thank god), but they can collect data for an area of baby-health that's severely lacking. As silly as it might sound, these prototype pampers use QR cod...

BGR claims it's got exclusive details about the Amazon Kindle Fire tablets that will be released this fall. It's more or less what we could expect from a yearly iteration of a tablet. Here's the skinny.

It turns out that making a throwable camera isn't that tricky. But making a throwable camera that doesn't capture random obscure images, or spinning video that induces motion sickness, is kind of hard. In fact it's taken...

Back in the day, Kodak was a pretty big name in the camera world, although lately it seems that the company has been having some financial difficulties, so we have to wonder had Kodak decide to diversify its operations, ...

Panasonic has released firmware updates for its Lumix DMC-GH3 and DMC-G5 mirrorless cameras. Version 1.2 for the GH3 adds a 'Low light focus' mode that works down to -3 EV, a 'Silent Mode', and an 'Exposure Compensation ...

Lenovo's busy webmaster has put up a new product page, sans hoopla, for a Haswell-powered ThinkPad called the T440s. The "ultimate business Ultrabook" isn't fully detailed at this point, but there are a few other specs a...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini LTE goes on sale in Europe this week.

Because Florida was hastily attached to America to be the butt of her jokes, this latest piece of ridiculousness should come as no surprise: Florida might have accidentally banned all computers and smart phones. How? It ...

McAfee releases a report saying that the massive March attack on banks and TV stations was part of an extensive campaign to steal government and military secrets.

CBS has just let the ink dry on a contract extending its streaming deal with Netflix, and in addition to keeping existing content, the duo is adding a handful of new TV shows. While L.A. Complex and The 4400 are now slat...

You have the Internet in your pocket. The ability to communicate with anyone in the world at your fingertips. A big and beautiful glass screen that's asking to be touched. Too bad all those things can combine into one gi...

An anonymous reader writes "Seth Vidal, a lead developer of Yum, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while riding his bicycle in Durham, NC last night." The Fedora Project posted a statement. Quoting: "Seth was a lead d...