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New year, same sweet tech 2014 was a big year for me, device-wise. I went through a few phones -- three Moto Xs, to be exact -- I lost a tablet, I gained a few Chromebooks, and in the course of my writing here, I got to ...

Lizard Squad probably shouldn't have bragged about being impossible to track following its cyberattacks against the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. According to both The Daily Dot and a Thames Valley Police report, la...

When it’s chilly outside, we want to keep our home a bit warmer than freezing, but we also don’t want to run up the electricity bill by making it feel like summer indoors. The best way to fight off the cold while wor...

Like plenty of people around the globe, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted an inspirational message on Facebook to kick off 2015 This year, she chose a photo of her 6-year-old son stepping on the famil...

Seven hours sounds just about right for the average puzzle enthusiast to solve a standard 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. But Youtuber RedKB isn't your average puzzle enthusiast. Instead of tackling a 3x3x3 cube, he solves this incr...

The six astronauts onboard the International Space Station will ring in the New Year floating 240 miles above the Earth.

In an era of instantaneous access to everything, one system that's managed to lag well behind is online court documents. Electronic filing systems have become the norm in lower courts, but are still in the midst of being...

As if the massive DDoS attack from Lizard Squad wasn’t enough of a disastrous end to the year for Sony and Microsoft, a new group called H4LT has apparently leaked the Xbox One software development kit on to Twitter. A...

An anonymous reader writes On Christmas Eve, as the National Security Agency was releasing a report on NSA employees' abuses of surveillance technology, Google was telling WikiLeaks about another sort of surveillance. Ac...

3D projections are often used nowadays to create eye-popping visuals on flat surfaces such as the sides of buildings or on basketball courts, but could the same concept be done out in the wild where things aren’t flat ...

We’re in a brand new year! It’s time to start in on those resolutions we’ve promised ourselves. We want to form better habits, get things accomplished, and feel better about our lives. So many people choose to lose...

How do I train myself to code faster and with fewer bugs? This question was originally answered on Quora by Martin Michelsen.

Here’s a lighthearted video that’s going viral on the Internet: over the course of 2014, Jillian Haker repeatedly pranked her brother by getting him to make ridiculous poses for selfie photos while she was actually c...

Set the bar low — like, really low — for 2015. Another year has gone by and chances are you haven't saved a ton of money, ran a marathon or reorganized your closet (and kept it that way). But the new year means there...

Not many people count getting zebra finches drunk as their job.

Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, points out what could have entered public domain in 2015 but won't and why we need to use the upcoming Public Domain Day to focus on the imp...

If you're looking for an ideal alternative to carrying huge tripods for mobile photography, try the Satechi SCH-22 Camera Holder & Suction Cup Mount. The best thing about this mount is that it's easy to use and can be st...

It's been about ten months since the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange turned out the lights, blaming hackers or a bug in the blockchain as reasons why 850,000 bitcoin it held had suddenly disappeared. Today the Japanese paper Yo...

None of the companies examined by the authorities breached privacy laws. The post Taiwanese regulators clear Apple of data privacy violations appeared first on AppleTell.

Is there any better way to relax than being reminded of your species' dominance on this planet while watching a bunch of bugs trapped in a clear plastic enclosure? Not likely. But ant farms are so yesterday, what you nee...

I love finding a diamond in the rough. This list is from Rotten Tomatoes.∞ Read this on The Loop

Holy crap. I'm pretty sure the fence separating the tigers from the humans does absolutely nothing because these tigers can easily out jump it. Look at them gracefully fly in the air and snatch the meat like a wide recei...