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You remember The Most Useless machine, right? The one that encapsulates our entire interaction with technology by boiling it down to a zero-sum back and forth that ends in a meltdown? Well here's its big brother. More�...

No matter the occassion, fireworks are always festive. Usually you'll launch them from a boat, or the ground, or maybe for your back porch, but for the Taunggyi Fire Balloon Festival, they're launched from a hot-air ball...

Feeling that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 could use some more grunt? There's a chance you'll get your wish. An unannounced Galaxy Note GT-N5100 has popped up in benchmark scores with what looks to be a 1.6GHz Exynos 4412, ...

So you've done it. You've successfully procrastinated gift-buying until the last possible second. Those carefree days of laziness come at a cost, and you're about to pay it by standing in line forever. Here's are some th...

Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. All of them wonderful ways to bring together people you know, care about, or just want to stalk. But it's easy to confuse connecting friends with friendship. Don't. All social media companie...

If you were wondering whether or not the ZTE Grand X would cross the oceans to launch in the US, there's a good chance the mystery is over. An unusually detailed FCC filing has uncovered a V970T variant that's destined f...

I love the How the Grinch Stole Christmas. My mother used to read it to us every year at Christmas. But you know who's cooler than my mom? The rapper Big Boi. More »

Basements can be magical places, or they can be junk heaps. You always hope for the magic, that amidst the moldy clothes and Christmas ornaments, you'll find treasure. So when my mother-in-law mentioned that her father's...

Because it's the holidays and people will sue anything and everything is horrible, a California Instagram user has filed a class action lawsuit over that terms of service kerfuffle last week. Needless to say, this is dum...

'Twas the night before Christmas and all over Twitter, a bunch of stupid ***s are already pissed about the crap gadgets they got for Christmas. iPad? Dumb. iPhone? Lame. Anything and everything? Screw you mom. More Â...

*These are awesome in the sheer sense that they are so terrible. You would think nothing could make them any less terrible. But the thing is, they all have some unusual, surprising use of technology. It may get lost in t...

This is a 1991 holiday ad from Radioshack. You know, Canada's Value Leader. More »

The unfortunately named iSimon has gracing us with iOS-inspired magic tricks for some time now, but there's always room in our hearts for more digital prestidigitation. Especially when it's so topical. Here's a healthy d...

Few things in this world will reaffirm your holiday spirit faster than watching a dozen or so uniformed service people cover a room in Christmas wrapping. Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the af...

If you spend any time on the internet at all, this shouldn't shock you: Game of Thrones was the most pirated show of the year. More »

At the turn of the 20th century, the logging industry relied on armies of lumberjacks swinging axes and band saws to fell a forest. These days, we just send in Harvesters. More »

The murmurs surrounding a 10-inch Nokia tablet are growing louder, and they suggest that the company won't just follow the herd. Tipsters for The Verge claim that the Windows RT slate would center on a Surface-style keyb...

Holiday season is a great time to organize your house—you're cooped up inside, and you actually have a few days to get things done. There's an explosion of storage and organizing products to help you get things in...

In the early 1900s, Ladies Home Journal thought the future would bring a lot of things. The predictions sound funny and old timey, sure, but you know what? Even though we haven't eradicated flies and mosquitos (yet!), a ...

Well, well, well, here's a holiday treat for the BlackBerry enthusiast in your life. CN Beta has a pair of enticing images purporting to be the forthcoming keyboard-packing N-Series from RIM. The picture of the back, sad...

According to a report from The Verge, Nokia's going to out its own Windows RT tablet early next year. That's fine; it would be weirder if they weren't. But what's a little less expected is that the company's elves are ha...

To this day, I remain in love with my HTC One X, but its fate has already been sealed. Soon enough, this fast and beautiful smartphone is going to find a new life in a drawer that holds my spare change, sunglasses, check...