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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner continued the model's string of bad luck yesterday when it burst into flames on the tarmac at London Heathrow Airport yesterday . The good news was that it was unoccupied at the time. And now ther...

Sometimes you just want to enjoy TV without making a commitment, and time-shifting broadcasts either means building your own HTPC or purchasing an OTA DVR -- like the now defunct Boxee. Back in 2011, Channel Master teame...

Staring at the periodic table of elements was pretty much all I did in science classes but I learned absolutely nothing from it other than Bromine and Barium (but that's more because of a Google search on Breaking Bad). ...

Handwriting is dying out in general, but cursive especially. Does anyone under the age of twenty ever use it anymore? They will, if the minds behind Lernstift have anything to say about it. They've got a haptic smart-pen...

There's a crew of hero historians out there slurping up the Internet for posterity in case we want to see it later, but what about all the apps? Well now there's a place for them too. Parts of them, at least.

One reason that we prefer keyboards to pens is the dignity-saving presence of a spell checker -- but that won't help your average schoolchild, obligated to learn their language scrawling on dead trees. Now, a pair of Ger...

"I'm starting to think of it as a museum that I'm curating," says creator Alli Dryer.

Happy Saturday! We brought presents! Tips on how to lock down your Facebook account now that search graph is here, and what it's like to have a phone explode on your leg, for instance. With a healthy side of 100 years of...

We knew Halo: Spartan Assault would be making its debut sometime this month; what we didn't know, however, is that it would only be reaching Verizon-branded Windows Phone 8 handsets initially. According to the Big Red ne...

All expecting parents have read What to Expect When You're Expecting, because when that little bundle of joy drops out of mommy, you'd better be ready with lots of paper towels and a whole lot of specialized knowledge ab...

Current VR just can't match our natural experiences -- real life doesn't have much lag, for example. However, Oculus has just published a pair of research posts showing the ways that it's closing the gap between simulati...

OK, so we've covered Star Wars Episode IV , Back to the Future , The Matrix , Aliens , even Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Now the animation geniuses over at 1A4STUDIO are bringing us all another wonderful sci-fi cinem...

The scariest thing in your chicken--besides maybe the biggest, sharpest knives--is chicken juice; ain't nobody want salmonella. And what better way to have fun with that fear than by having a hand towel that looks eerily...

It seems unlikely--impossible, even--that aliens would just happen to make contact today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after. But what if they did? How do you even deal with something like that?

Intel has been open with its plans to introduce an internet-based TV service, but many of the details remain up in the air -- not the least of which is the name. However, GigaOM has done sleuthing that suggests the offer...

Looking for an excuse to try out BlackBerry's latest flagship? Here's one: now it's cheap. Folks willing to sign up for a usual two year agreement can score the BlackBerry Z10 for $99 at both AT&T and Verizon or a mere $...

Like a fevered dream by embattled ex-Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, this naughty claymation short by Dadomani Studios makes no sense in context outside of its own logical universe. Still, there are worse thin...

My eyes are telling me that this is 3D art. My brain is telling me that these are 3D drawings. My entire being believes that this is crafted in 3D. But nope. These drawings are actually 2D with clever shading and angles ...

Hulu may have put the kibosh on auctioning itself off wholesale, but it looks like some money may still be changing hands. Citing three people familiar with the situation, Bloomberg reports that Time Warner Cable is stil...

In this most ridiculous lawsuit that should expose the idiocy of mankind and/or lawsuits in general, a lawyer is suing Apple because of porn. Seriously. The lawyer is seeking damages against Apple because it makes device...

So though Hulu won't be completely sold off, Bloomberg says that it is in "continuing talks to sell a stake" of itself to wait for it... wait for it... everybody's least favorite cable company Time Warner Cable. Ugh.

Sort of like the literal MS Paint renditions of popular songs , this music video of Kanye West's visceral Black Skinhead draws out each of his lyrics inside the pages of a Moleskine for you to follow along. It's an art-f...