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A drug dealer is keeping the memory of digital black market Silk Road alive with specially-printed ecstasy pills. "To pay our respect to DPR and to forever remember the legacy that was Silk Road we have made a small batc...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. If this week's gaggle of science news gives you a neck ache, we apologize. That's because we're fully up amongst the stars,...

A small fraction of the United States population feels a cultural affinity to Judaism, despite having no ancestral or direct religious ties to it, new research suggests. Those people tend to be more Republican-leaning an...

We walked miles at NY Comic Con and took photos, so you didn't have to.     

Yahoo has acquired Bread, a URL shortener whose links included interstitial ads designed by the person who shortened them. The service has shut down as of Friday in the wake of the deal. Bread (aka "Bre.ad") posted the n...

This week, Amazon announced a new service called "Login and Pay" that directly compete with PayPal. For the 215 million Amazon users worldwide, there's no question that this capability will make it significantly easier t...

Lucas123 writes "Consumers appear more willing to use a self-driving car from a leading technology company, such as Google, over an auto manufacturer like Ford or Toyota, according to a new study from KPMG. Based on poll...

sfcrazy writes "Valve Software have demonstrated how the controller works in the real world with popular games like Portal 2, Civilization V, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve has posted a video on their YouTub...

The debate over the value of music-streaming services continues to proliferate, with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne becoming the latest artist to lambast Spotify for its business model. Byrne, 61, wrote an essay on T...

See what apps have made their way onto the devices here at AC It's time again for another edition of our Apps of the Week column, where we show off the apps that are on the devices of the Android Central writers. Whether...

The whole point of exchanging business cards was to feature in each other's address book or rolodex. But now that address books are digital, the physical business card serves little purpose other than a greeting token. T...

Two weeks of sliced budgets and suspensions following Congressional gridlock have been a disastrous setback to a variety of American science programs, wasting millions of dollars and months if not years of research.

Including smart elephants and a simple diagnostic test for Alzheimer's.

barlevg writes "Two of the three scientists sharing this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry have Israeli citizenship, with Dr. Arieh Warshel having been born and educated in Israel, yet both are based at universities in the...

How many accents can Dan go through in a single Eurocast? We're not quite sure ourselves, but this time he's channeled his inner superhero. Lacking the same skills, Jamie decides to hijack every topic segue, while James ...

Americans may not have to wait long for a shot at the Xperia Z1, as frequent tipster @evleaks has posted what's reportedly a press image of the smartphone's T-Mobile USA variant. There's little new to see beyond the carr...

Lavabit, Edward Snowden's email provider back before he skipped town, is claiming in appeals court that it's immune from criminal subpoena. This is unreasonable and it's a good thing he will almost certainly lose.

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a brief interview with Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss in which he seemed to indicate that the firm is moving away from Series A investments in consumer startups. He a...

Relatvity Media has backed away from a “Stretch Armstrong” movie. “Stretch Armstrong is an incredible character who will make an amazing movie, and we know that Hasbro has some new ideas they are looking at. Relati...

The sci fi thriller gets us talking about NASA, science and deft moviemaking.     

Emails from 2011 show that university researchers believed they had Gov. Bob McDonnell's support for obtaining money from a state trust fund to bankroll studies for a nutritional supplement maker that's now being investi...

Ever want to throw your PC out the window because it was taking too long to load a website? You’re not alone. A global survey commissioned by storage device maker SanDisk found that 14% of American respondents have tak...