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If you've been spending too much time in bars lately--and we certainly hope you have been--you've likely noticed the rise of barrel-aged cocktails. The technique takes some of your favorite mixed drinks, mellows them out...

The on-again-off-again status of NYC's e-hail pilot program is now, well, back on. A New York state court has just lifted a temporary restraining order brought on by the city's livery cab companies that halted the year-l...

"If you're in this room, you're the best of the best," Chris Anderson addressed the audience with his customary flair for the dramatic. Complimentary, sure, but not without merit -- the former Wired editor-in-chief was s...

It's late afternoon on a Friday, which means we're all thinking about our weekend plans. That might mean a party, but what's a party without a little music? The attractive Timbre Amplifier is just the ticket for your shi...

We've seen a lot of frivolous applications for robotic arms: Artisanal cocktail making. Slow pit stops . Whatever's going on here. Meanwhile, in Finland, a precociously-named company called ZenRobotics has figured out ho...

President Obama hasn't been shy about engaging the public and other nations on digital issues, and that includes the idea of cyber warfare. While his administration has been pretty aggressive in building up our cyber def...

Google first implemented face-unlock in ICS, and since then, they've been hard at work improving the feature and acquiring new IP related to it. Last fall, the search giant patented a way for multiple users to use face-u...

Microsoft wants Bing Desktop to transcend the limits of web-based search, and that's especially clear with a newly posted app update -- it's all about doing what most browsers can't. The software brings inline searching ...

Happy Friday, friends! It's been a long week, and we're ready to blow off some steam. We'll be hanging out in the discussion below for the rest of the day, ready to talk about tech, NBA finals, government spying, plain o...

Everyone wants to be cool, but no one wants to admit it. In spite of that, since the beginning of the internet, people have been formulating an ever-evolving script for achieving coolness. It's confusing, and often contr...

Softbank's plan A is still a $20.1 billion deal for Sprint, as it looks to enter the US wireless market. But, with stiff competition from Dish in the effort to acquire the black and yellow carrier, rumors are that it's k...

In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news. It seems like just yesterday we were in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center having a heck of a time with robots, exoskeleto...

After more than a decade of research and negotiation with local authorities, Disney recently got the greenlight for its plans to renovate the Grand Central Air Terminal. Located just north of Los Angeles in Glendale, Cal...

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Yesterday marked the 69th anniversary of D-day, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the beginning of the end for the Axis Powers. After 160,000 US, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy ...

The annual game industry trade show that's spawned thousands of memes is just around the corner: E3 2013 kicks off on Monday morning with a quartet of press briefings. In another 72 hours, we'll have a full day of livebl...

The most expensive and complex effort to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy didn't concern floodgates, transit, or even buildings. It concerned the beach: 14 miles of gritty--and beautiful--shoreline that are reopening after ...

Last night, the world found out about the NSA's pervasive, encompassing PRISM surveillance program . We learned that we are all being monitored, in a literal sense, and that the largest tech companies on the planet are i...

Routers are boring. Most people set them up and forget they even have one. But this Asus router is so notorious that it has a cool nickname: "The Dark Knight." And Newegg's selling them for $100 shipped.

There's no question that the SLS AMG Electric Drive is faster than most EVs. However, Mercedes-Benz wants to prove that the car is fast in any category -- and it just broke a Nurburgring record to underscore its point. M...

The premier of Man of Steel is only a week away, and true to form, the internet has been plastered with everything even mildly related to Krypton's finest. But this infographic--made by the industrious people over at Hal...

It's sure looking like we'll be getting ourselves a seventh version of iOS come Monday morning, but we'd guess Apple has some other surprises in store for the keynote that will kick off WWDC 2013. New laptops? Probably. ...