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During a holiday party at the Everglades Alligator Farm last year, employee and budding wildlife photographer Mario Aldecoa was setting up his camera to capture the glowing eyes of the local residents. It wasn't long aft...

Categories: Finds Ideas Tags: cassinicollageearthearthcollagemosaicNASAsaturn On July 19th, the Cassini spacecraft that has been hovering around Saturn -- and sending back some stunning images we might add -- turned arou...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is at it again. In a new string of documents provided to The Guardian by the ex-CIA technical analyst, it is alleged that NSA paid millions of dollars of taxpayer money to internet companies ...

Face it: the NSA knows plenty about you, and our growing reliance on technology is only making the agency's controversial surveillance efforts easier. But the National Security Agency has been around for a long time, pre...

Social media fragmentation is a real problem in the modern landscape. Foursquare may let you check in at a restaurant, and your Netflix queue may go to Facebook, but who's keeping track of the calls you make from your ce...

The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren't real. Yet. Elon Musk has been cooking up something very Stark-y, and he's planning to show it off soon.

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

The Gillmor Gang -- Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor -- digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact on the direction of the Post-PC Era. Whether he was pushed by ...

Sometimes I have an out of body moment where I see myself as an audience member and think about how dumb-looking the whole process is. You sit somewhere. You gape at something and don't monitor your facial expression bec...

What are the odds? Both services experience intermittent downtime Sunday afternoon.

The MTV Video Music Awards have manifested pop culture icons in history over the years for a number of reasons -- most of which have somehow included fashion. We've seen risque materials, live animals and even edible ens...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Last week's Switched On discussed the initial confusion and rough ride for Windows RT, which became a dealbreaker for inventive PC designs...

There have already been a lot of rumors about the iPhone 5C, Apple's much rumored low cost iPhone. The company is expected to unveil this device next month though Apple is yet to confirm its iPhone plans. Previous rumors...

Unlike real-world real estate, the Internet has unlimited space for new housing. But every new addition to the Internet changes the entire market for what already exists online In this comic, we see how a popular new web...

Samsung has its first ever Developer Conference scheduled this October. Rumor has it that the company will officially launch its Tizen platform at this conference. The focus of this conference is said to be on Tizen, whe...

Less than a year after launching Facebook Gifts, the social network is dropping physical items from the selection and focusing on gift cards, perhaps primarily its own. Several reports cite Facebook representatives sayin...

It's true -- we already gave Gamescom 2013 a quick wrap up, but now that the sun has finally set on the show's public days, it's time to look back on the past week and sift through the madness. Upon closing the Koelnmess...

Ars Technica profiles Matt Kruse, the developer behind Social Fixer. "Social Fixer uses Javacript to modify Facebook's interface. It gives you dozens of options for customizing how you see Facebook: you can separate upda...

It's true -- we already gave Gamescom 2013 a quick wrap up, but now that the sun has finally set on the show's public days, it's time to look back on the past week and sift through the madness. Upon closing the Koelnmess...

Categories: Finds Ideas Tags: cameraDIYdoityourselfrebuiltrepurposestrobevintageystudio Japanese company Ystudio is in the business of keeping the craftsmanship behind old, often discarded products alive. And in the case...

Facebook announced recently that it has tweaked its News Feed algorithm so that users see more high quality content when they peruse their feeds at any given time of day. The social network says that its goal is to show ...

In movie land, three's often good company, but especially when it comes to trilogies.