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Social media plays a larger role than ever in the lives of sports fans around the worldYouTube is an endless source of video highlights and bloopersTwitter is a gigantic news wire. And Facebook is a place for trash talk ...

The Sony Xperia Z1 is an interesting phone. There's lots to like, and some stuff we weren't crazy about at all. But we applaud Sony for its build quality, design and trying to do something new and interesting with its ph...

Perhaps the most surprising sentence in Twitter's IPO documents Thursday — and the most troubling news for fans of the social media service — came on page 23 of its S-1 filing "We have incurred significant operating ...

A conversation with the film's science advisor     

As prospective investors pored over Twitter's financial information, Twitter employees shared photographs and updates.     

The social networking site has been told to remove allegedly offensive content or face the consequences

Federal prosecutors brought charges against 13 people Thursday for allegedly helping the hacker group Anonymous carry out attacks against a number of websites, including those of major credit card companies, recording in...

Twitter filed to go public today. Now, for the first time, it's possible to see how its financials and user numbers stack up to those of its chief rival.

We know that ChatON is doing quite well in places like China and India, having recently crossed the 100 million user threshold. (We also know that it isn't really catching on here in the US.) But, for all its useful feat...

Twitter's initial public offering seeks to raise over $1 billion as it aims to go public on the U.S. stock exchange. Here's the filing broken down into number-by-number morsels.

(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) During a heart attack when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of the heart is interrupted, and not quickly restored, heart muscle begins dying. Deprived of oxygen and ...

The data released by Google shows that Jelly Bean power 48.6 percent of all Android devices. But fragmentation remains a big problem, and getting users onto the latest version continues to be an uphill struggle.

AT&T has become the latest carrier to release that all-important Moto X update designed to improve upon the handset's inconsistent camera performance. After T-Mobile users began receiving the firmware upgrade last month...

Part sculpture, part toy, part perfect time waster, the OSM--or Object for Spatial Manipulation--is like a kaleidoscope brought into the 3D world that you can manipulate and morph without having to look through a faux te...

It only took two weeks, but Motorola's firmware fix for the Moto X has passed AT&T's scrutiny and, as of today, has begun rolling out to handsets. Owners of that particular variant should see an over-the-air update arriv...

Saturday is the second anniversary of Steve Jobs's death, and a lot of remembrances are making their way around the web. One of the most revealing comes from the New York Times Magazine who just published a sprawling rep...

Let me start by stating that I've been a fan of Montreal's Slaves on Dope since the mid to late 1990s. Does that make a difference in the relevance of the rest of this blog entry? Nope. Just felt like saying that. I've h...

Amy Harmon's excellent, recent article in the New York Times describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect. It looks like there co...

Microsoft has just updated the Facebook app for Windows Phone with a few handy features for both social and anti-social users. Photography lovers can now attach multiple images to a single post; the more bitter among us,...

With the continuing collapse of fisheries around the world, a new balance of power is being set in the open oceans--one where jellies are the dominant biomass, not more modern vertebrates. This is not good.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially responds to the Model S fire this week.

With the slew of improvements Microsoft is making to the new Kinect, some potential buyers have grown concerned about the device's capabilities, particularly when it comes to how their personal information would be used....