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LTE is starting to become a reality for prepaid customers on inexpensive plans. Straight Talk, a carrier formed from a partnership between Walmart and Tracfone, is now allowing users who bring smartphones capable with AT...

Lucas123 writes "On the news that Linus Trovalds's SSD went belly up while he was coding the 3.12 kernel, Computerworld took a closer look at SSDs and their failure rates. While Torvalds didn't specify the SSD manufactur...

The notion that less is more has no place in the world of action figures . At least, that's the only reasonable conclusion you can come to after you see this life-size six-foot-tall Stormtrooper you can make your very ow...

Ads can be a buzzkill, especially when they're so pervasive they become distractions. Luckily, Adafruit has a new tutorial that turns your Raspbery Pi into a WiFi access point that doubles as a mighty ad-blocking machine...

Rappers have had a love affair with technology that started long before Biggie Smalls was name-checking Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. And their rhymes cover everything from the CEOs to mobile platforms. Here, we prese...

Raspberry Pi tinkerers have a new tool from Google that helps make use of the device as a private web development environment.

Over the last few years, tablets have found their way into our living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, classrooms, and even cars. More and more, they are also making their way into our workplaces. How about yours?

Drew's Pizzeria in Champaign, Ill., seems to believe it's a fine idea to go on Twitter and offer free pizzas for a flash. Yes, really.

Microsoft is launching a limited-time iPad trade-in offer in its brick-and-mortar Microsoft Stores.

This week we have a message in a bottle which could be the oldest ever found, 1970s microfilm that was hidden inside a missile in Kansas, and the single coolest (and furthest traveled) time capsule ever assembled.

This week's jaw-dropping news that a massive aquifer has been discovered beneath Kenya conjured up all sorts of visions of the desert instantly greening like a Chia Pet. But it's not as easy as digging a well--the aquife...

Canon impressed us back in March when it unveiled its 35mm full frame CMOS sensor, which is capable of recording footage in extremely low-light situations. This time around, the company set its sights on the Yaeyama-hime...

It'll never happen now but the dream of beautifully brawny Nokia hardware loaded with dominating Android software was an idea that Nokia had been toying around with before Microsoft swooped in and bought Nokia's phone bu...

As Voyager makes its bold journey into interstellar space, it's a great time to get the next generation of astronauts interested in travel to infinity and beyond.

Microsoft officially acquired Nokia's devices group to improve the overall Windows Phone platform. The New York Times, however, hears from sources that the company may have had another incentive: Nokia had been testing A...

Non-alcoholic beers take a lot of flack, and rightly so. The great majority of them taste like swampwater (and give you less of a buzz). But are any of them actually good? We tried 14 different non-alcoholic beers to fin...

Forget the MP3 player, or even the Walkman -- the real instigator of the portable audio revolution is the compact cassette, which just marked its 50th birthday. Philips formally launched the format on September 13th, 196...

Are you tired of being told when and where you can and cannot drink? Taking advantage of the fact that everyone carries around reusable water bottles these days, the BottleCamo blends right in. But instead of filling it ...

There are two sides to every story. Inventor, pioneer and Internet darling Nikola Tesla is no different. The Serbian-American lived from 1856 to 1943 and is widely regarded as a thinker who was far ahead of his time. Bet...

As I read through the recap of The Third Metric conference and all the posts from extremely bright and capable contributors on the topic, I pondered my own inspirations in life and my desire for balance. I've been inspir...

Environmental awareness has risen exponentially in recent years and many people have grown a strong urge to surround themselves with anything green amidst vast concrete jungles. Vertical gardens, urban farming, and guerr...

In each issue of Distro, Executive Editor Marc Perton publishes a wrap-up of the week in news. This week's Distro includes our first hands-on looks at Apple's new iPhones, the 5c and 5s. And you should read them -- and c...