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Geek-focused digital media company Nerdist Industries did something kind of amazing in the lead up to last year's Comic-Con International -- it staged a relay race called the Course of the Force, where fans carried a lig...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, NEA's Jon Sakoda joined us in the studio to discuss his views on big data, seed investing and more. For background, Sakoda joined NEA in 2006 and focuses on investments in SaaS, infras...

We've just posted our review of the Panasonic Lumix DMX-TS5/FT5. In the latest of our series of reviews of this year's crop of waterproof tough compacts we've put the TS5 through our usual studio and real-world tests to ...

In December 2008, there was an emergency meeting at Microsoft that those present reportedly nicknamed the "cage match." Terry Myerson, a young executive with a blunt affect and a love of Hawaiian shirts, had just been pr...

Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S.

One of the best things about Android is being able to customize everything about your home screen, which you can do with a third-party application launcher. Android has plenty of great ones, but our favorite is Nova Laun...

PolygamousRanchKid writes "Pope Francis overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State on Thursday, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution and possession...

LG has launched a 55- and a 65-inch 4K TV set in the U.S., priced at $6,999 and $7,999, respectively Both devices belong to LG's LA9700 series and come with Ultra High Definition resolution, meaning 3840 x 2160 pixels, o...

Categories: Culture Industry Law News Tags: celebrityLady GaglawsuitphotographersubpoenaTerry Richardson A federal court judge has ordered celebrity/fashion photographer Terry Richardson to surrender 142,000 shots of Lad...

Players traveling to the United States for the official League of Legends annual tournament in Los Angeles this fall will be awarded the same type of visas traditionally given to professional athletes, according to Riot ...

Microsoft denied that it provides the U.S. government (or any other) with "blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, or any Microsoft product." The company issued its statement in response to a Guardian r...

Nerval's Lobster writes "Who could forget Steve Ballmer's defining moment, that infamous 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' rant that became a YouTube hit? Or the reports of frighteningly accurate chair-throwing? Who ...

When Chicagoan Elizabeth Wylder selected her Twitter handle in 2009, she had no way of knowing that Syfy would produce a movie with the same name -- and that Sharknado would captivate the Internet. But since the made-for...

McKesson Corp. accomplished a multi-year, pan-IT management transformation that has enabled it to better leverage an agile, hybrid cloud model.

Google seems to have a marketing plan for its new product launches and its creative right brain appears to be catching up to the number-crunching left side.

An Indian Olympic running legend gets the lavish biopic treatment in this rousing and handsomely crafteds ports drama.

We spent some time with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag where we experienced a ton of new content.

You can greatly narrow search results in the Finder by adding logical operators to include and exclude specific files.

AT&T announced plans to acquire Leap Wireless Friday at a cash price of $15 per share. With the deal, all of Leap's stock and wireless properties would become property of AT&T, including its retails stores, licenses, net...

There is no way my parents could have known what a world of pain they were dropping me in by simply giving me the name Mario. It was 1984, and Mario was my dad's name. THEY COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. But now...

AddThis has released a new platform called Smart Layers, which it says can improve traffic and engagement by just adding a single line of code. President and CEO Ramsey McGrory told me that Smart Layers both improves on ...

Cubesats are all the rage these days: they're usually inexpensive and quick to build and they can tag along on launches already scheduled for other things. We think of cubesats as being almost "disposable" satellites - t...