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HP has announced its first Chromebook, and it's notable for the fact that its screen is much larger than models from the likes of Samsung, Acer, and Lenovo. Sadly, there's not an awful lot else to set it apart. More

In a world that's increasingly dominated by tablets, Microsoft, whose fortune is intertwined with desktops and laptops, needed to prevent its customers from leaving in droves. After a few years in a Redmond laboratory, W...

Good news: Sony has revealed a new PlayStation console! But it's not what you think. Instead, there's an Ice Silver edition PlayStation Vita reaching Asian countries from February 28th onwards. The new hue is attached to...

The dream for WebRTC is to offer truly software-independent video and voice chat, but it hasn't worked out that way given limited support. Google and Mozilla have just showed us that it's at last possible to reach across...

One of the things Apple has demonstrated over its lifetime is that it has become the great disruptor. When the Mac came on the scene in 1984 and introduced computer users to the graphical user interface, it shook up the ...

It looks as if Samsung and LG have both taken their fingers away from the red button marked MORE LITIGATION. It's being reported that the pair have come to an agreement to work out their OLED patent issues away from the ...

Looking for a slimmed-down Raspberry Pi with a single USB port, 256MB of RAM, no Ethernet and one-third the power consumption of a Model B board? You're probably in the market for Model A -- a $25 alternative designed fo...

If you hate football but love cinema: no problem! Here are the trailers for Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness which aired during last night's game--without any sports involved. More

Here's a weird little OS X quirk: the eight-character code above seems to cause pretty much any app on a Mac running Mountain Lion to crash, instantly. More

As we begin 2013, we're stuck in a kind of tablet limbo. Most companies rushed to get devices out for the fall, while the models we saw at CES 2013 aren't yet shipping. As such, it's a mostly familiar deck, with Apple, G...

I'm a big Redskins fan, so when people asked who I was rooting for in the Super Bowl, they didn't know whether I'd choose San Francisco (a city I visit so often I'm practically a resident) or Baltimore (a city not far fr...

Android apps on Windows? Been there, done that. Try running Windows programs on Android for size. Alexandre Julliard, the developer behind the Wine compatibility layer, gave an update about an ARM-friendly flavor of the ...

What turned out the lights in the Superdome last night? Actually, we still don't know! But Entergy--the company responsible for keeping the lights on at the Super Bowl--has released a statement that amounts to a blown fu...

Fuel-cell-powered vehicles are still a long ways off. But fuel cell-powered toys? That's an awesome reality that's about to get even better with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies new H-Rover, which includes a wireless camer...

Harmon Kardon's Sound Sticks speakers are a bit of a cult item in design circles. Why? There are a couple reasons: they've been permanently enshrined at the Museum of Modern Art, Apple design wunderkind Jony Ive designed...

This amazing image shows 90 percent of Mars's surface, imaged in ultra-high detail by the stereo camera aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express. More

A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester has announced that the remains of a body found beneath a parking lot in the city of Leicester, UK, in fact belong to ancient British King Richard III. More

If you're the fidgety type that's also in the market for a new GPU, AMD's ready to tempt you into springing for a Radeon HD 7000 series card with the promise of free gaming swag. The imaginatively named "Never Settle: Re...

It's one thing when malware attacks your phone, but it's another when that same malware hops over to your PC and then uses it to listen in on all your conversations on top of just messing with your phone. A newly discove...

Twitter is supposedly planning to make logins more secure by adding a two-factor authentication system. More

What's black and white and pink all over? Well, not too long ago, the answer to that was the Droid RAZR M. As of today, however, Motorola's nearly bezel-less Jelly Bean handset will also be pretty in platinum. Available ...

A Scottish toy company called H. Grossman has decided that kids are tired of the inanimate plastic dinosaurs most of us grew up with. Apparently today's young'ns need interaction, and a grander sense of scale. So the com...