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Technology is about making and using cool new things that enrich our lives. But technology is also about using idiotic, tired words that mean next to nothing, designed to confuse us into wasting money. Here are the year'...

Imagine if you had the powers of photoshop in real life. You could fix any blemish, smudge any color and brighten any situation with a quick drop down menu. How would it work? Photographer and graphic designer Flora Bors...

Google, the word not the company, has become such a common word for anyone who uses a computer (other than the yahoos who still use Yahoo, I guess) that it's surprising to learn that other languages have a different word...

Selfies are hilarious photographs people take of themselves. It's a close cousin to the MySpace mirror shot and birthed from the proliferation of smartphones and point and shoots and really, there's nothing more awkward ...

Apple has had to take security more seriously when a larger user base and the cloud have opened up greater risks. Thanks to a just-discovered hire, we now know 1 Infinite Loop isn't messing around. While many of us were ...

One of today's many, many Spotify announcements was that legendary thrashers Metallica would be coming to the streaming service. As part of the announcement CEO Daniel Ek brought out the bands notoriously outspoken drumm...

Amazon lets you pay a few extra bucks to "gift wrap" an order in case it's being sent to someone special. Say, this holiday season! What they don't tell you is that it's being done by a mule. More »

Mentions of Intel's Red Ridge tablet platform began cropping up in earnest well over a year ago, but things have been fairly quiet on the Medfield front -- with a few exceptions, of course -- ever since. Now, however, In...

Are you head over heels in love with your MacBook? (Fanboy! (Just like me!)) Then why spoil its design with some jacked-up USB tumor? This sleek flash drive is the perfect complement to your beloved Apple hardware, even ...

The Galaxy Note II is a big phone that has attracted an even bigger following: Samsung shipped over 5 million units in two months, even before the holiday shopping season commenced in full force. And we don't expect the ...

Here we go again, talking about apps for horny people way more than usual. But that's because there's a new king: Snapchat. It sounds like something designed for children. But really, it's really designed for penises. An...

This would be pretty hilarious. Delta is being sued by the state of California over the privacy policy in the app's Terms of Service. The problem? It doesn't exist. More »

Hmmm, I'm getting notes of sandalwood, rosemary and a hint of boiled cabbage… More »

The sudden rush of device announcements and hands-on posts that come with the advent of each CES can feel a bit overwhelming if you don't know what to expect. And while we can't predict what's to come with unfailing prec...

Seatbelts are there to save lives in an emergency, but in certain situations they can actually do just the opposite. If your vehicle ends up underwater after a freak accident, they can make escape difficult. So a Dutch c...

Though cleverly named the IRIS 9000 to dodge any legal trouble with MGM, 2001: A Space Odyssey fans should have no trouble recognizing this HAL 9000 doppleganger that's designed to make using Siri feel a little more sci-...

If you want to buy one smartphone car mount for life your best bet is made by RAM Mounts. Why? Maybe because they're completely manufactured in the USA. Or it's possibly because they make iPhone and laptop mounts for mot...

Having a bad job is better than having no job, but there's no doubt that monotonous, bottom-wage manual labor is the pits. Photographer Michael Wolf snapped this haunting series of Chinese workers building cheap toys for...

So we were just having a discussion about Linux and someone mentioned that nobody cares about Ubuntu. While that may be true for the vast majority of folks, I'm wondering if it's true of our readers. Please discuss. More...

I've traveled 18,054 miles on airplanes this year. That's 27 flights. And on each of those 27 takeoffs and 27 landings, a hungover flight attendant has asked me and my fellow travelers to turn off our phones. I didn't, n...

Well, it was all but confirmed at Photokina, but the release of AT&T's HSPA+ Galaxy Camera threw a few doubts our way. Still, it looks like an LTE version of Samsung's Jelly Bean shooter will be in fact making its way st...

Tired of smiling and nodding along while your electrical engineering buddies debate the finer points of electromagnetic theory? If you're taking a critical eye to the definitive guide to batteries, you've got to understa...