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Those of you who have found the new Google Maps lacking may have reason to give it another chance. Starting today, Google will be rolling out a variety of new (and new-old) features designed to increase functionality wit...

It would appear that there will, indeed, be an opportunity for you, the member of the public, to get your hands on the fabled white Xbox One. This machine is the employees-only version of the console, reserved only for t...

There are a couple of Google engineers working for the Google security team replying in kind to the NSA and the GCHQ (on the other side of the ocean) regarding the most recent round of Edward Snowden-leaked documents on ...

Portable document scanners have existed for years, and you can even get models as small as a business card. The catch, however, is that you need to physically move the scanner across a document yourself, which often lead...

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The work of photographer Thomas Senf is the focus of a short video hosted by The Guardian, documenting the stunning lengths he's gone through to shoot climbers scaling frozen waterfalls at night in the mountains of Norwa...

If exercise isn't your idea of fun, maybe you should invite some friends: A new study suggests people enjoy physical activity more when they're with others.

For my birthday two years ago, I treated myself to an 11-inch MacBook Air. I bought it with the intention of using it mainly as a writing machine away from home, for my blog and for school. It was (and ...

While Karma had a good idea when it launched its shareable hotspot service last year, it had to rely on Clearwire's WiMAX data -- not what we'd share with others when the technology is on its way out. The company is catc...

We already know Microsoft is on the hunt for a new CEO with current CEO Steve Ballmer having announced that he would be leaving Microsoft. Early on there were several big names tipped to be on the list as potential candi...

The Death Star Cookie Jar is an official Star Wars product, and you may not use it to fire a deadly planet-killing superlaser. What you can do is use it as a space for stationing crunchy cookies or as a...

  AMSTERDAM FROM ABOVE   Photographer Unknown via Triplen01 on Reddit   Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 805,166 within the city-proper, 1,563,141 in the urban re...

The dramatic overhaul of Google Maps on the desktop saw the world lose a good friend. That friend: Pegman. The tiny yellow avatar that you could drop almost anywhere to get instant access to Street View disappeared. Inst...

Sony has announced that the PS3 game console has hit a significant sales milestone around the world. It’s hard to believe that the PS3 has been on the market for seven years now, it doesn’t seem like that long. Sony ...

After making some notable improvements to its desktop music player, Rdio is starting to bring its mobile apps up to feature parity. Earlier today, the company rolled out custom recommendations to its iOS app, offering al...

When Apple took the wraps off a brand new version of iWork last month, it unfortunately had to cut a few features on its way to a 64-bit codebase and drastic redesign. Predictably, more than just a few users cried foul. ...

At the moment, Sony has a very limited selection of lenses that can natively be used with the full frame E mount A7 and A7r cameras. The post Five Lenses to Adapt to the Sony A7 and A7r appeared first on The Phoblographe...

This is one of the most satisfying things I've seen in a long time: watch Jar-Jar Binks--the biggest assclown in the galaxy far far away--getting killed in a deleted Star Wars scene that has been perfectly edited by fans...

Hybrid laptop-tablet Windows 8 machines have been spilling onto the shelves at an exponential rate of late. But none have been positioned like the affordable Asus Transformer Book T100. This 10.1-inch two-in-one device h...

Mars may be geologically inactive but that doesn't mean there's nothing happening there--seasonal changes on the Red Planet can have some very dramatic effects on the landscape, as this recent image from the HiRISE camer...

Last year NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealed a Spiderman-inspired grippy claw that would let spacecraft easily grab onto passing asteroids and comets. Since then the technology has been further refined and now int...

Sony Alpha a7R is mirrorless digital cameras with full-frame sensor. This camera was launched in October 2013 with his brother Sony Alpha a7. Both cameras are claimed by Sony as a full-frame mirrorless camera is the smal...