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Cheery piano music and then *drop* DUBSTEP BOW WAH KEKEKEKE CHIGGCHIGGCHIGG BADOOM chop your stupid hand off music. It's kind of hilarious to see the two tablets (and its ad strategy) next to each other, no? Kind of like...

Until SSDs get big and cheap, hybrid disk drives—which combine a traditional high-capacity hard drive with speedy solid state memory—are a great compromise. Particularly now that Singapore's Data Storage In...

In a ridiculous fire story that even firefighters couldn't believe, a vodka bottle acted as a magnifying glass for sunlight to burn through a liquor store. Seriously. More »

Samsung's experiment with a Ghost Recon SSD bundle must have been a hit with gamers, since it's coming back for a second round the very same year. The upgrade-minded buying 128GB, 256GB or 512GB versions of the SSD 840 P...

Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload's new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn't look likely because Me.ga has already been ...

We've seen photos of New York's beloved L train being drained of flood water left over from Hurricane Sandy. Now the MTA has released video footage of workers toiling away to get the beleaguered line back up and running....

The first thing we noticed about Nintendo's next console when we last got our hands on it was the length -- the Wii U is Nintendo's longest console yet. Sure, sure, there's a tablet controller and HD graphics and yadda y...

Athena—the season's first major winter storm—is just beginning to hit New York City. This is bad news—the situation is still pretty rough for many residents. Hurricane Sandy really wreaked havoc in t...

The final member of the Blue Microphones trio that we saw introduced back at CES is finally hitting shelves. Blue's dual-connecting Spark Digital is now shipping from Apple and Best Buy with other retailers soon to follo...

Using your phone as an impromptu flashlight may work in a pinch. But if you spend enough time diving under desks, rummaging through supply closets and searching dimly-lit basements, you'll want to invest in a proper torc...

Instagram's new web profiles are beautiful—the most beautiful part of Facebook mixed with the lushness of your favorite photo app. A fine pair. The only downside is that now anyone can look at all of your uploads....

Ferrari loves to extol the advances found in its drivetrains, but the unspoken rule is that its interior technology leaves something to be desired; unless you're thinking of a 458's manettino, even a less expensive car l...

The whole minimalist running shoe craze is still on the rise, and doesn't show signs of slowing any time soon. There are a lot of great minimalist shoes at entry level prices, but what if you want something high-end? Mor...

Black Friday sure doesn't mean what it used to—what with major retailers like Amazon running a "Countdown to Black Friday Week" all month and Newegg doing a promotion it calls Black November. However, deal hunters...

Fuuvi's Nanoblocks are a smaller version of Lego that seem to have had some level of success in Japan. And while this isn't the first time the blocks have crossed paths with cameras before, this is the first official Nan...

If you're one of the first on your block to have picked up a Nokia Lumia 920, you might wonder why it's so forgiving with where you set it down on the wireless charging pad. TI is more than willing to share. The 920, 820...

Ultrabooks have started to look the same. For a moment, so did Windows 8 convertibles. Then, along came Toshiba—a company still willing to make weird stuff. Just get a load of this strange little Satellite U925t c...

We love GroupMe. We use it almost daily. It's our favorite way of avoiding SMS, coordinating the team, braving CES, and exchanging childish jokes. Today, a new version drops, and it's bigger and prettier than ever. More�...

Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, just joined the board of Ferrari, which could mean that Apple's cozying up to the auto manufacturer in hopes of creating products and services for cars. It's not ...

Not that there's been any lack of ways to get Batman or Supes on your chosen tablet, between Comixology and the devoted DC app, but if you happened to need on more, the publisher announced today that it will be bringing ...

Along with devastating rain and winds, Hurricane Sandy brought along a torrent of photographs that flooded the internet before she even hit land. You've seen our coverage of the storm, and while many of the photos were t...

This is it, guys. Smartphones are now significantly bigger than your average penis. And it's China's fault. China and its monstrous 5.9-inch Windows Phone screen, which is baffling and probably warrants a nuclear strike ...