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Kleyou asked the Answer Line forum for advice about a misbehaving computer that likely has memory issues. Defective RAM can cause all sorts of problems. If you're suffering from frequent crashes, freezes, reboots, or Blu...

Modern day flatpanel TVs are getting so thin that their sound output tends to be equally thin on the ears. If you're spending four figures on a quality telly then you really ought to invest in sound for the ultimate home...

Gravity looks pretty damn terrifying. Most philosophers would tell us that for a film to really be chilling to the bone, it must call to mind a real-life existential fear that's buried within our souls. So Gravity is tug...

The disclosure caused more damage to American counterterrorism efforts than the vast trove of data from Edward Snowden.     

It took two major expeditions charting the solar eclipse of 1919 to verify Albert Einstein’s weird prediction about gravity -- that it distorts the path of light waves around stars and other... --

The prosthetic controls movement through nerve impulses sent to muscles.     

As if Silicon Valley's relationship to the whole National Security Agency spying-on-the-Internet thing wasn't awkward enough.     

Here’s an interesting project that captures, in one fell swoop, just how many of us are connected through the social life suck network known as Facebook. Called Faces of Facebook, it’s a website/webapp that compiles ...

The UK government has adopted its first two open standards under its plan to shift departments away from proprietary systems.

The U.K. government will follow in the footsteps of the U.S. and create a military unit dedicated to launching counter-attacks against hackers.

France's data protection watchdog is pressing ahead with plans to fine Google for failing to adjust its new privacy policy to comply with the country's law.

At a school for the blind in Japan, the Internet is no longer just a visual toolYahoo Japan has made it possible for children who are blind to search the web. In collaboration with Japanese creative agency Hakuhodo Ket...

Dell's XPS 12 Ultrabook Convertible is one of the better marriages of laptop and tablet. The version reviewed here, which Dell shipped over the summer, isn't tremendously different from the original XPS 12: It's slightly...

There have been rumors that TSMC would handle some of Apple's future chip production, but details of the purported arrangement have been vague. The Korea Economic Daily may have just filled us in, however. It claims that...

(Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc Chief Executive John Chambers' total annual compensation almost doubled, the world's biggest network equipment maker said in a regulatory filing.

Outages and data loss reinforce the critical importance of thorough disaster recovery and business continuity.Today's cloud-based solutions, however, are limited -- something data protection vendors have been addressing.

Searching for status updates and other types of content on Facebook just got easier, thanks to an update announced Monday.     

The galaxy weighs a whopping 200 million times more than the sun, packing half of this mass within 80 light-years of its center, according to observations from the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii.

It's not news every time a Kickstarter product starts shipping to backers, but in the case of 3Doodler, it's worth a mention. At last count, the startup had raised $2.3 million to fund its 3D printing pen, and with a cos...

Korean researchers have engineered a new strain of E. coli that can produce a suitable substitute for gasoline. And as they quite rightly point out, bacteria that poops out petroleum could be some valuable shit.

"Too much bezel" -- how often have you seen that complaint in the comment section of new phone announces? Well, you can throw this Sharp Aquos Phone Xx (and its mini companion) in the face of that haterade brigade becaus...

All the speculation around the iPhone 5C was that it was designed to be Apple’s product to infiltrate the lower tiers of the market and begin to take share from Android. You may or may not know that in ...