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Like live music? Like free music? Like your couch? You can have all three right now, thanks to the Austin City Limit's YouTube livestream. The first day is done, but there's still plenty more where that came from, and it...

There are all kinds of fonts out there, but they pretty much all have one thing in common: they're rigid. Typode, on the other hand, has its characters defined by coordinate so they can skew, stretch, twist, and do all k...

Normally, if you're thinking about what kind of weapons you can find in the kitchen, you immediately think of the knives. It turns out ladles can be formidable too. At least, they can be when they're also guns. More �...

He did it! That crazy awesome Felix Baumgartner jumped off the edge of the space, from 127,000 feet of altitude all the way back down to Earth, breaking some world records and getting vital information for NASA in the pr...

We are covering the supersonic space jump live here. In case you missed it, you can see it here. It went smoothly. At the end you can see Felix's mom crying, overwhelmed by emotion. [Live coverage] More »

Eye scanners have always been one of the security devices people think of when they think "high-tech" and "high security." But they're not perfect yet, some can be fooled with contacts or even pictures, but new pushes in...

Last night, Saturday Night Live ran a little sketch pairing off some tech pundits with Foxconn workers over complaints about the iPhone 5, and we were lucky enough to be one of the tech-whiner targets. More »

Everybody wants a pinball machine of their own, but the problem is that those suckers tend to be pretty expensive. There's a way around that though, if you're determined enough; build your own out of K'Nex. The results c...

Today seems like a good day to jump from 120,000 feet in Roswell, New Mexico. Right now, the weather forecast seems good for launch. Felix Baumgartner is going to try to reach the edge of space and then fall. More �...

While Apple and Samsung have been duking it out over patents, there's always been the quiet, underlying irony that Samsung makes a whole bunch of the chips Apple relies on. Now, according to reports from CNET and MacRumo...

For the critically unhip who don't know their way around even the simplest of hip-hop slang, RapGenius is something of a translator, cataloging the ins and outs of the genre's jargon, and spoon-feeding it to squares like...