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What began as a bill designed to protect the privacy of your digital life has been mangled at the behest of law enforcement agencies. CNET reports that if the revised Senate bill isn't stopped before it goes to vote next...

How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? With a cardboard-dry turkey and some Stove Top? I pity you. But it's only Wednesday, and I can still help you make a fantastic holiday dinner. I know how to do this. More »

A mere six months since its last update to feature phones and Blackberrys, Opera Mini has refreshed itself again, this time offering up an improved download experience, both in regards to speed and file management. The n...

Something startling happened over the weekend. It came and went in a flash, but the repercussions could, and should, be lasting. An unexpected and most unusual policy brief from the Republican Study Committee was release...

We've never paid much attention to BBK's phones in the past, but today, this Chinese company -- who's actually the creator of the Oppo brand for the Western market -- announced a rather interesting Android 4.1 device. Th...

Pope Benedict XVI has just published a new book, the third volume of his Jesus of Nazareth trilogy, talking about the childhood of Jesus. Like Dan Brown's bestsellers, Herr Ratzinger promises to reveal lots of mysteries ...

Last Thanksgiving was one of my favorite Shooting Challenges ever. You shared your family's personal recipes. This year, I want you to share the whole table. This year, I want you to go full Norman Rockwell on us all. Mo...

Over 60 years since the first digital computers switched on, the chances of seeing one of these pioneers in action have grown incredibly slim as time (and recycling) takes its toll. Take a visit to Britain's National Mus...

There are two schools of thought to Thanksgiving preparation. You can spend weeks hunting down the perfect recipes, the freshest ingredients, and begin prepping the arduous feast well in advance of November 22. Or, you c...

Years ago I heard that you could make a delicious and healthy "ice cream" type dessert simply by blending frozen bananas. While the result was indeed tasty, it killed my blender and was really hard to scoop out. More ...

This Friday—Black Friday—is the one day a year where there's a really great chance you come away with a stupid good steal. And if you're going to brave the crowds and go hunting for sales, there's only one ...

Further milking the cash cow that is Xbox Live, Microsoft and Stingray Digital Group have announced Karaoke for Xbox 360. Equipped with a robust library of over 8,000 licensed songs ranging from oldies to Hip-Hop and R&B...

The HP-Autonomy multi-billion dollar ticklefight has escalated quickly from buck-passing to finger-pointing; in an interview today with the Wall Street Journal, Autonomy founder Mike Lynch gently explains his considered ...

Nokia Maps (officially titled "Here") is a potential godsend for anyone fed up with Apple's subpar offering. It's blazingly fast, routes via public transportation with ease, and doesn't mix up Manhattan with Siberia. Unf...

That bug in Android 4.2 that won't let you enter the month of December in the People app. Yeah, Google IS ON IT. [Google+] More »

Robots are already adept at all manner of things, from hunting to feeling, but over at Honda's Research Institute, one team is focused on an ability bots aren't so hot at yet -- hearing. Puny humans can quickly deduce th...

We've seen tablets used as skateboards, tablets used as car dashboards and many, many tablets hacked to do things they weren't intended to do. This, dear readers, might be the greatest hack of all: modifying a tablet to ...

You kids and your Avatars. Back in my day, we say 3D in two colors and we liked it. Here are the results for this week's Shooting Challenge: Anaglyphs. More »

Announced quietly on its site today, Lenovo's pushing its Ultrabook legacy forward with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch. Details on the 14-inch device are light at the moment, but from what we can glean, this Windows 8-base...

Using the same phase shift technology developed for its portable breast cancer screener, researchers at Nihon University have created a blood pressure monitor that works like a fingerprint reader. So gone are the days wh...

Greenpeace often seeks to light a fire under companies it thinks are dragging their heels in clean technology, and that's more apparent than ever in its latest Guide to Greener Electronics. The frontrunner this time is c...

When Plex rolled out its PlexPass subscription that offered paying customers access to some new features as they were being developed, a new web client was first in line. Now an update to its Media Server is available th...