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Mass dampers--the gigantic weights designed to counteract swaying in skyscrapers--are usually installed during the construction process. But today, a Japanese real estate company announced plans to install six of the dev...

The sky is blue! Only when it's not gray. Or purple. Or red. Or orange. The clouds are white! Only when they're not gray. Or even darker than that. Basically, the clouds and sky can be anything. But can the sky be a crea...

The Department of Justice (DOJ), IRS and U.S. Attorney have announced another huge victory in their all-out war on tax evasion. Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG--LLB for short--will pay $23.8M to the feds but avoid prose...

Zynga is going after hookup app Bang With Friends, suing its maker with trademark infringement over its use of the phrase "with friends" -- common to a series of Zynga games including Words With Friends and Chess With Fr...

Peer-to-peer marketplace company Airbnb has released new versions of its mobile apps that will give users better tools for managing their listings on the go. The app also has taken a big step forward by enabling users to...

CowboyRobot writes "Poul-Henning Kamp argues that the 'recent exposure of the dragnet-style surveillance of Internet traffic has provoked a number of responses that are variations of the general formula: "More encryption...

Movie studios are betting you're crazy impulsive when it comes to picking what movie you want to watch. Apparently, many movie titles are selected purely on alphabetical prioritization, so that they'll pop up higher on y...

You might be familiar with SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud based data storage. The company has put in a lot of resources in to building up this brand, particularly in the competitive cloud storage niche where you have player...

SchrodingerZ writes "Planetary Geologist Ellen Stofan, expert in the terrains of Venus, Mars, and Titan, has recently been appointed the Chief Scientist for the space agency. Stofan will act as the top adviser for Charle...

Twitter has released the third installation of its semiannual transparency report, showing how often it responds to requests for user information and takes down tweets based on a law enforcement or copyright request. In ...

Well, well, it seems that you might want to upgrade your navigational systems on your multi-million dollar yacht after hearing this news - researchers from the University of Texas claimed to have succeeded in generating ...

Microsoft filed its annual Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, revealing that the Microsoft Surface lineup has garnered only $853 million in revenue for the company, which is less than the ...

It's been a while since Kindle for iOS users have been able to download content directly from the app, thanks to Apple's 30 percent fee for in-app purchases. Today, Amazon is reintroducing that feature -- albeit a modifi...

The latest App Annie statistics show that Google has already overtaken iOS in app downloads. This has happened far faster than anyone would have expected even one year ago. One factor here was the massive surge in Androi...

Today brings another victory for transparency as the US government has just declassified three documents pursuant to the collection of telephonic metadata authorized by section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. The documents, rele...

As important as your car cup holders are, gadget-crazy families will find it easy to give one up for the Energizer 180W Cup Inverter to charge up to five portable devices at once.

Cast your memory back to 2011 and you may remember a Texas judge ruling that the seizure of cellphone records without a search warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. Fast-forward to today, and the 5th US Circuit Court of...

In Apple's TV commercials for FaceTime, long-distance couples laugh, cry, and smile adoringly as they video chat on their iPads and iPhones. They're carrying on meaningful conversations, but something's missing. They're ...

Waiting for the new JOBS flick has been a rollercoaster of managed expectations for Apple fans. Is it going to suck? How can actor-bro Ashton Kutcher possibly play a legend? This latest clip has got me feeling more excit...

Do you want to live through the digital apocalypse in style? Timefly has put together a series of futuristic ponchos that place heavily digital designs onto physical canvases. They're modern camouflage for a cyberpunk pu...

Simple.tv wants to give Boxee users another way to record TV shows without paying for cable, and the company is also looking to launch a cloud DVR.

"Finding Vivian Maier", a documentary about the reclusive street photographer, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.