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Building a computer is a great way to get a custom configuration, save some money and have fun. In a how-to video, we'll show you how to build one in less than two minutes. PC components Asus Z87-A motherboard - $140 Int...

From breathing walls to holograms and intelligent kitchen appliances, Electrolux Design Lab's eight finalists reveal how we might be cooking, cleaning and improving our home environment in the future.

According to Forbes, Microsoft will be giving away 200 bucks of in-store credit to anyone who trades in a used iPhone 4S or iPhone 5. Microsoft already has a standing trade-in offer for the iPad, so it's pretty obvious t...

Magnetic Microrobots It's like a magic elevator for medicine. Sangwon Kim, Famin Qiu, Samhwan Kim, Ali Ghanbari, Cheil Moon, Li Zhang, Bradley J. Nelson, Hongsoo Choi These tiny cages, each 100 microns long and 40 micron...

Good news Android gamers, if you were looking forward to playing EA's Plants vs Zombies 2, you will be able to get your hands on the game come October, although specific release dates were not mentioned. The game was ori...

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A San Francisco strip club has filed a lawsuit against Oracle, alleging an employee of the software giant didn't pay a $33,540 bill run up over two days last year. The New Century Theater filed suit on Sept. 3 in San Fra...

This week marks the end of summer and the first days of fall. It also marks the start of fourth annual Fall Shooting Challenge. Don't worry if things are still green by you--the results aren't due next week--but you can ...

The bad news for BlackBerry just keeps on coming; two days after the company entered a buyout agreement, it's confirmed that T-Mobile will no longer sell BlackBerry devices in its brick-and-mortar stores. We'd heard as m...

Your smartphone has already replaced everything from your digital camera to your alarm clock, so why not the pocket knife clipped to your keyring too? The creators of the IN1 feel you should demand more from your iPhone ...

An update to Google Voice today brings a useful, if not earth-shattering, new feature: support for SMS short codes. If your primary phone number is the one associated with your Google Voice account, this means you'll fin...

Finding the right lighting for your home can be a tough challenge these days. You can get ceiling-mounted lights, recessed lights, track lights, wall lights--you can even get fancy with a chandelier or a floor lamp! But ...

As a part of delivering its newest lineup of Kindle Fire HDX tablets with Fire OS 3.0, Amazon also added a new feature to its Prime Instant Video subscription plan that Netflix, Hulu and the rest don't have: downloads. T...

A man in George County, Mississippi, using Google Earth to look over his property this past Sunday, ended up helping the Sheriff's Department find a stolen car.     

A new GhostFood truck traveling the northeast in October will offer you the experience of eating some wonderful, albeit endangered, delicacies. That's right: the experience. You won't actually get to eat the food, but if...

Today's the day for updates to Google's Android apps. The latest to get a revision is the company's main Search app, which sees a slew of new features and minor tweaks. That includes the ability to display a related webs...

Not only is Alcatel One Touch on a roll in Europe and Asia, it's starting to make more strides in the US. Sure, this isn't the company's first rodeo in this neck of the woods -- the Shockwave came to US Cellular last fal...

Google Hangouts is finally finally finally getting proper status indicators (on Android) so you can tell if you're bugging someone who's actually online! It's no SMS support, but this is one hell of a welcome update.

This week saw the opening of the biggest datacentre in Europe - a new facility in the Portuguese city of Covilhã. ZDNet went for a look around.

A 2003 article in the Military Review has proven darkly prescient with last weekend's terrorist siege of an indoor shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Written by two retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonels, the piece outlines...

Another week, another photoshop contest. And what will you be manipulating for the sake of Art this time? Why, none other than Mr. Amazon-Blue-Origin-Washington-Post himself. And lucky for you, last night's new Kindles a...

At Sony's IFA press event, reps handed out samples of the company's $250 lens cameras to everyone in the room. We really enjoyed our time with the Cyber-shot QX10, but that model's more powerful sibling, the QX100, promi...