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Remember that toy of yersteryear with the variously shaped holes and similarly shaped blocks to shove in them? Remember how great it felt when you stopped trying to jam the star into the circle and everything fell into p...

Indie-electrorock group, Astro, is kind of a big deal. Already one of the most popular bands in their native Chile since forming in 2008, Astro's summer 2012 debut album arrived to heapings of praise by the New York Time...

Neil deGrasse Tyson just took the mystery out of a cosmic legend in comics, and somehow made it even cooler. How much does Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor and forged from a collapsing star, actually weigh? Turns out, stars w...

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has been grounded for weeks now, may soon have a chance to fly again. Boeing has proposed a redesign for the bursting in flame batteries that would minimize the risk of fire. It's not a p...

How much would you pay for an extra pair of hands? Forty-five dollars sounds low. That's the price for this awesome set of cooking utensils whose notches make them rest on the side of your saucepan, freeing up your hands...

Apparently, some kind of weather catastrophe is on its way to the NE. I was vaguely aware that we would be getting a winter storm of some kind. Several inches of snow, a foot perhaps. But now I'm scared into a frenzy. Go...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's a big ol' Nor'Easter about to tackle the East coast. If you have been living under a rock, you might be about to freeze to death under it. More

Wait, doesn't Brian usually write these? Where is he anyway? Ehh, we'll go without him. This week Tim is in NYC with Dana Wollman and Barb Dybwad makes a colorful return to the 'cast. We'll be talking Surface, we'll be t...

Back to the Future is a classic, a mastery of the zany-time-travel form, and we'd all like to watch it every day if we had the time, I'm sure. But we don't. Lucky for you, the guys at 1A4 Studio worked a little time-rela...

For years we all assumed that robots and artificial creatures had to be made of metal and other rigid materials. But there's now a movement to create soft, squishy bots that use unorthodox power sources like compressed a...

We've been told that nearly 40 percent of all BlackBerry 10 apps in BB World are Android ports, but what about some of the big-name apps boasted on stage at the launch event last week? In its latest blog post, Skype reve...

Instead of a picture of a sunset, your kid or yourself, you can have a randomly-generated GIF as lock screen wallpaper with GIF-Lock for your Android phone. More

After landing itself in hot water with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and Hamburg's Data Protection Authority (DPA), Facebook has deleted all of its European photo tagging facial recognition data. After rev...

Skype's updating its app for iOS again and, this time, it's more about fixing what's broken, than adding new features. So, users that rush to install this version 4.5 update won't find any new animated emoticons or editi...

Here's a fascinating look at what and how the USAF's finest pilots eat while flying America's favorite spy plane: the A-12. Second only to the A-12 Oxcart and its brother, the SR-71 BlackBird, being a A-12 pilot is an ex...

Dropbox gives you 2GB of storage when you sign up. iCloud offers 5GB. While there are plenty of reasons to prefer those services, the storage space they offer is way less than what you can get with Box today. Usually Box...

Anyone who gets a regular deluge of email knows how tough it is to clear the inbox rather than just hope all those messages will go away. Orchestra thinks its new Mailbox app for the iPhone has a simple solution to the g...

On your approach, you probably wouldn't even know this house is a house. The front rises out of the ground like the facade of a secret underground lab, but from the back, it's a giant windowed beauty. It's called the Edg...

Still settling into Windows 8? Well, it appears that Microsoft's preparing for a sea change, codenamed "Blue," that will alter how it approaches cross-platform updates. According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, an inside sourc...

Wraparound sunglasses provide as much protection from glare as you can get without having to resort to a full-on helmet and visor. But those curved lenses also makes them bulky and hard to stash away when not worn. So a ...

It looks like Japan won't be a part of BlackBerry's BB10 launch plans now or anytime in the foreseeable future. According to a report from Nikkei, BlackBerry has decided to stop selling phones in the country, at least in...

So you've been wanting to come to Expand this March 16-17 in San Francisco, but you've been dragging your feet on actually buying those tickets (we know, life is busy). Good thing we have a chance for you to win a pair o...