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It's a disadvantage for a media company if you have to employ, journalists, editors, and photographers...

California teens get an online "eraser button" under a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday. The law makes California the first state to require websites to allow people younger than 18 to remove their own postings o...

Posting explicit images of former sexual partners can ruin lives, yet mostly goes unpunished. But the law may be catching up with technology.     

Topaz Clarity is an image processing program for adjusting contrast in photos without degrading the quality. Available as a plugin for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto, Topaz Clarity retails...

Despite a few legal entanglements along the way, Aereo continues to spread its cloud-based TV streaming service across the country. The lucky municipals this time around are Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, I...

Facebook's open hardware chief Frank Frankovsky on why it won't go back to traditional mass market servers and how open sourcing datacentre design is helping it build more efficient and reliable server farms.

Gigabit internet access is all the rage these days, and C Spire is entirely willing to give in to peer pressure. It just announced an upcoming C Spire Fiber to the Home service that will supply 1Gbps internet access and ...

Jawbone's original Jambox made Bluetooth portable speakers a mass-market hit. Since then, though, Jawbone has started to lag behind as other companies have come out with better units that cost either the same price or le...

We've already run through many of the iPhone 5S camera's new features, including some cringe-worthy footage showing off the phone's 120fps video mode, which allows you to reduce the playback rate for a slow-motion effect...

The Chinese government will allow access to some banned Web sites in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, including Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times, the South China Morning Post reports, citing anonymous government sou...

30 percent less electrical noise will mean better low light pictures Tonight Samsung has announced their new imaging sensor technology, named ISOCELL. They say that ISOCELL will substantially increase light sensitivity ...

We've seen 3D printers produce some pretty amazing things, but nothing quite like this. Tim Zaman, a Dutch researcher, has reportedly developed a 3D duplication technique capable of capturing incredible detail, such as b...

Acupuncture or counselling plus usual care 'may improve' depression symptoms.

Last week, one unfortunate reporter found himself live on camera clutching a big ol' stack of paper--not the iPad he'd been reaching for. But because he's a professional and because no one probably knows what paper is an...

Sixense has so far promised only PC compatibility for its Stem motion tracker, but the company just teased us with the prospect of a wider ecosystem. It now says that Stem's developer kit will support Android and iOS if ...

Clive Thompson, a science and technology writer, argues that technology is making us more intelligent and creating an ambient awareness of the people around us.     

Moving the water filter from the pitcher in your fridge to the reusable bottle you carry around all day means you can safely refill it anywhere. The catch, however, is that most filtered water bottles either require you ...

Samsung and others have promised to deliver TV over 4G using the LTE Broadcast standard, and it looks like you can now also add AT&T to the list of those hoping to make it a reality. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communa...

Haven't found the perfect drawing or note-taking app to replace the hard covered notebook you still carry around? Who says you have to give it up just because you have a smartphone? Not the designers at KBme2 , who want ...

You're probably familiar with highway rest stops, but drivers might soon be seeing something a little less ordinary along the road: text stops. New York plans to establish 91 "Texting Zones" along state highways, encoura...

Scoff as we may, we've all been there before. One of your gadgets starts acting up and, even though you know it's wrong, banging on it with your fists just feels so right. Why, even TV and movie people do it--a lot, actu...

Tomislav Nikolic is on a campaign. One, he wants the world to know that scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla was awesome. And two, he wants the world to know that Tesla was Serbian. The first part's so far been a breeze. ...