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Your car is probably more comfortable than any tent if you're going camping, but without running the battery all night or opening a window to the elements, it's impossible to get any air flow in the cabin. Impossible, th...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is trying to figure out whether the red planet ever offered a habitable environment for life, and it's taking amazing photos in the process.

In plainer terms, this means Internet users won't be seeing Web addresses that look like, "://insert name here."

jfruh writes "Data visualization tools are finally putting a longtime dream within reach: offering the ability to make beautiful, slick-looking charts out of datasets almost automatically. But are our psyches ready for t...

DO-RA is a personal dosimeter-radiometer for measuring ionizing radiation that plugs into a smartphone and works in conjunction with an app to allow you to quantify your exposure to background radiation. The device, crea...

"Story of My Death," Catalan director Albert Serra's imagined meeting of two oft-filmed historical figures--Casanova and Dracula--won the Golden Leopard Saturday night at the 66th Locarno Film Festival, the first edition...

More retailers are finding that Big Data can revitalize an industry challenged by a slow economy, increasingly empowered consumers, mobile proliferation and an ever-growing number of channels.

Elmer G. Letterman once said, "Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."While there's quite a lengthy list of character traits, no matter the position you're applying for, here are five that sho...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Two years on, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is still causing problems, and the Japanese government is looking at a particu...

He calls it "a historic moment." He calls it "an emotional moment." In Spike Lee's latest YouTube joint, he emphatically thanks Jesus and his financial backers for crowdfunding his next film. Lee set a goal of $1.25 mill...

It may be old news now, but hackers are still using news of the U.K. royal baby's birth to entice people into clicking on malicious links, according to researchers at Trend Micro. When the official announcement was made ...

At Amazon.com, he has upended industries. Now he promises change at The Washington Post. If his history is a guide, he will have all the laughs.

By the time you're ready for a new phone, it can feel like the whole world has changed. But still, there's bound to be just one feature you lust for, one beautiful glowing feature that's just out of reach on your current...

Categories: Software Tutorials Tags: howtomakestereographicprojectiontinyplanet Ever since Google released the Photosphere feature for their Nexus devices, I have been obsessed with making tiny planets. The photosphere f...

One of the things Google is known for is giving their employees so-called '20% time' -- that is, the freedom to use a fifth of their working hours to pursue their own projects. Many of these projects have directly improv...

Between the New York Times going down and the less-than-stellar reviews of Jobs, we understand if you've been underwhelmed by the tech world this week. But the last five days still had plenty of great tech news to offer,...

The son and daughter of a woman allegedly raped and murdered by her grandson are suing the state and San Joaquin County for releasing him from the county jail after he violated parole.

In a lengthy update to its service status page, Microsoft has explained the causes and resolutions to the extended downtime Outlook.com and Exchange ActiveSync users experienced earlier this week. The company says that i...

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, there's no avoiding the inevitable: summer is nearing its end, and the new school year is upon us. Everyone wants to make a great impression on their first day of school. To ensure...

Google is upping the rewards it offers to bug hunters on its Chromium Vulnerability Rewards program to $5000 for those previously rated at $1000, the firm has announced. Nearly three years after it started handing out mo...

Here are two ways to connect your iDevice to a TV. One method will cost $49, the other $99.

Startups could face a "death sentence" one year ban from fundraising if they violate awkward new general solicitation fundraising rules, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant wrote in a letter to the SEC this week. Ravikan...