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Australia's new Liberal Party government is using the wrong strategy for rolling out the country's national broadband network (NBN) and should consolidate the planned two-stage deployment of fibre-to-the-node (FttN) tech...

Update 30 November: After the reported PSN outages and Sony suspending the Redeem Code functionality in the PlayStation Store following the PlayStation 4 launch and huge amounts of UK traffic, it appears to now be fixed ...

This Thursday, the Solar System put on a celestial performance, and we had a front row seat to the spectacle. Long period Comet ISON made its closest approach to the Sun entering the Sun’s atmosphere. This sun-grazing ...

Larson-Green, who is executive vice-president of Devices and Studios at Microsoft, said that the aim of Windows RT was "our first go at creating that more closed, turnkey experience [that Apple has on the iPad]…" but t...

It’s still very early in the new console wars but it looks like Sony’s PlayStation 4 seems to have a slight early edge over Microsoft’s Xbox One so far. The Telegraph reports that retailer GAME says that early dema...

The below are a collection of explainer posts on a variety of subjects--some specific, some general. But all, hopefully, helpful.

I try to keep on topic to the main idea of this site, but sometimes things get a little ... tangential. Sometimes it is a broader issue. Or a practical joke. And sometimes you just need to vent, you know?The below are ju...

Black Friday hadn't even ended before some retailers started teasing their deals for Cyber Monday. Amazon announced plans to start its Cyber Monday deals at midnight on Sunday and run promotions throughout the week. Walm...

The iOS Autocorrect feature is notorious for being very aggressive in correcting certain words, particularly those words with colorful, offensive, or controversial meanings – basically any curse word. If you get fed up...

Biometric security in and of itself is nothing new, but Fujitsu has launched a laptop that takes a new spin on an old idea. The Fujitsu Celsius H730 laptop is the first of its kind to offer palm-based vein authentication...

An unmanned cargo ship docked with the International Space Station today (Nov. 29), delivering a load of cosmic holiday goodies to the residents of the orbiting outpost.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an update to the earlier Slashdot story about KlearGear.com 'fining' a couple for a bad review left four years earlier on RipoffReport: Not only did KlearGear report this as a bad debt ...

Starting in 2008 we began the tradition of taking a pause as each New Year approached. The result was the time a space to reflect back on the best work of the year--my choices and yours:

I am always looking for inspiration from other lighting photographers--or frankly, anyone who really understands light. To that end, our interviews have ranged from 17-year-old wunderkind photographers to long-dead old m...

Money is hard to come by, and easy to watch slip away. So I have always tried to do my best to guide people to the best things on which to spend their hard-earned cash. Chosen well, books or gear (or whatever) can return...

Over the last eight years many cool videos have graced the pages of Strobist.com. Here, in the order in which they originally appeared, are the Top 100. Windows open in tabs for easier multi-video browsing:

Amazon's price has dropped even more, snag the Roku 2 for $50 while you can. [Amazon]

We're quickly losing count on how many times we have seen leaks of the Nokia Lumia 929. Still, something tells us Verizon subscribers won't mind getting as many looks as possible at what's rumored to be a pretty high-end...

Will the next location review service take its cues from Instagram? As the third party apps surrounding the photo sharing platform dive more and more into location, it's possible. The post Could Instagram inspire the nex...

In photography, a diptych is a pair of photographs placed side by side to form one single artistic statement or comparison. The images can be identical or similar in composition, they can show different angles of the sam...

Paul Bragiel, the batshit crazy awesome VC who has been training for months in the Arctic Circle to compete in the Sochi Winter Olympics, has a side charity project up his sleeve. After seeing dozens of other younger Oly...

Cultivating an indoor garden is surprisingly easy these days, even if your studio apartment is only slightly bigger than a shoe box. And with a bit of resourcefulness and some minor MacGyvering, you can grow fresh produc...