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Pei-Shen Qian was a quiet, unassuming neighbor -- but according to a recent New York Times article, he was responsible for dozens of modernist forgeries that, together, netted more than $80 million. In his youth, Qian ha...

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Claire Suddath writes in Businessweek that the number of drive-ins in America has dwindled from over 4,000 in the 1960s to about 360 today. Since Hollywood distributors are expected to stop p...

How did monosodium glutamate get such a bad rap? After a consumer crusade in the 60s, the compound has become synonymous with bad Chinese food, Doritos and processed cheese powder -- but a new longform piece from Buzzfee...

Loud conversation and music are good for business because tables turn over faster and people drink more, but does the noise turn you off?

Deep below the Pacific Ocean, dozens of WWII pilots are lying in watery graves, still inside the aircraft took them across the sky decades ago. It's far to late for a rescue, but as Popular Science explains, the people b...

ClockworkMod dev Koushik Dutta has teased us with a few interesting ways to get our own media streaming on Chromecast, but now he's actually releasing one to the public. AirCast runs on your Android device and streams vi...

Categories: Equipment News Technology Tags: accessorybiiwatchcameraremoteiphoneremoteshutterwatchwirelesswrist French smartphone device startup SmartMobilAccessoire is working on a new product called the Biiwatch. It's a...

In today's working world, unpaid internships are just another stepping stone to landing your dream job And while the unfair circumstances around unpaid internships are starting to be recognized, there are still droves of...

hydrofix writes "The partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA), was held for almost nine hours on S...

Making a play to attract fashionistas, the Amazon-owned online retailer tries its hand at social experiments in a bid to convince shoppers to abandon brick-and-mortar outlets for the Internet.

Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially in August. We wanted to verify this using the CrunchBase dataset by comparing deals over the past few years.

Take a step back from what Rift does and consider where it does it. What do you see? A hulking PC at a desk powering it and its games. Oculus Rift's problem is essentially that it's a peripheral for a device category whi...

The technology world never stops innovating. Come rain or shine, there are new developments each week -- and we're here to keep you up to speed with the most important ones On Monday, Elon Musk revealed his plans for the...

Got leftover beer cans? Of course you do Whether you hoarded them as a physical record of collegiate imbibing or just forgot to toss your leftovers in the recycle bin, now is time to do something useful with all that alu...

Look there were a lot of options. NASA streamed the shower with commentary, local astronomer associations were posting pictures, and there's always . . . what's that place? Oh right. Outside. You could have gone and watc...

The unreliability of internet filters has been demonstrated at the British Library, where its Wi-Fi network blocked an author from reading an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, as it was deemed to contain "violent c...

Nerval's Lobster writes "Over at The Kernel, staff writer Greg Stevens wonders whether police departments around the world should outfit their officers with Google Glass. There's some logic behind the idea. A cop with we...

Picture this: You have a long day at work where you had to make tough decisions left and right. Once you get home, do you stick to your diet, or do you reach for a hamburger and beer?

President Obama has them. So do many of the Fortune 500 CEOs. We're talking about fake social media followers, and it's no surprise that some of the Internet's most popular social media accounts are bolstered by a less-t...

Google Services uses more battery as it encompasses more things, but that doesn't help with the confusion factor Jonathan wrote in with a concern: Battery drain since 4.3 and/or new PlayStore Am I the only one to have th...

Watch this hilariously dated instructional video from an era when Netscape and "cyber" meant something and everything was just waiting to be "surfed."

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