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Some people are champs about having blood drawn and even go back as often as they're allowed to donate blood. If you're one of those people that's frickin great. Go pat yourself on the back. If not you are probably think...

It's one thing if your phone bursts into flames and cooks up your leg-meat real bad , but that's nothing compared to losing your whole apartment in an inferno. That's exactly what a Honk Kong man claims happened to him w...

It could mean nothing, but it could mean everything. As of this morning, Bob Mansfield was still a senior vice president at one of the world's most iconic technology firms. As of now, his leadership bio is nowhere to be ...

Should You Friend Someone on Facebook Before Your First Date?

It might not feel like it, but air travel's a steal compared to what it was a half century ago. Since the American airline industry was deregulated in 1978, ticket prices have fallen by about 40%. Of course, air travel i...

Neolithic farmers may have been new to the whole "raising crops" game but they quickly figured out how to increase their agricultural efficiency: literal bullcrap. And we've gotten hellaciously good in the intervening th...

Neolithic farmers may have been new to the whole "raising crops" game but they quickly figured out how to increase their agricultural efficiency: literal bullcrap. And we've gotten hellaciously good in the intervening th...

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology, led by Professor Changhuei Yang, have figured out a way to crank their microscopy up to 11. Usually, scientists are forced between a rock and a hard place:...

When Google Reader finally closed its doors, it shoved thousands of teary-eyed RSS fans into cyberspace, adrift, where we flailed around desperately for a suitable replacement. Many services rose to the challenge , but t...

I'm writing this as I am flying home from 10 days in China. Not the tech temples of Shenzhen but a concert tour of five of China's largets cities with the Children's Chorus of Washington. This opens you eyes to ...

Even if you haven't seen one in person, you're probably at least familiar with the concept of a scratch-off world map--it hangs on the wall, you scratch off each country as you visit it, etc. But Lego Cuusoo user TPNK ca...

New York City apartments are small, so to make the most of my space, I'm mounting my 46-inch TV to the wall. One problem--which mount do I get? Is your TV wall mounted? Tell us which mount is your favorite. Do I go cheap...

As electronic devices get increasingly tiny, heat management becomes a bigger and bigger problem. In gadgets that can't practically house a fan, heat sinks do the job of keeping sensitive electronics cool. So far, the be...

NuForce has been pumping out high end audio gear for the digitally inclined for years, and its latest effort is the Icon DAC and amp for Android, Mac and PC. It shares the same aluminum construction as the Icon iDo amp a...

Hey--Texas did something smart!1 By sending fake GPS data to a superyacht's navigation system, University of Texas students were able to override the actual GPS signals and send an $80 million ship veering off course wit...

Gary Shteyngart, novelist and fond admirer of Koreans, wrote maybe the best explanation of what it's like to use Google Glass for The New Yorker this week. Shteyngart was one of the first to receive Glass, as part of the...

Many of you have expressed some, um, concerns about a few of the bots we've covered in recent weeks. ATLAS, for instance, is quite frightening, but it's not yet self-aware. This tiny hexapod, however, is and it's rather ...

These days we've got plenty of ways to visualize data within our cities, from car crashes to Flickr photos. But there aren't many tools that let us compare information about multiple cities at once--until now. Meet Urban...

It wouldn't be the first time ASUS saw a US smartphone launch -- though last time the company had the GPS experts at Garmin to help it find its way. This time, according to Jonney Shih, the maker of both the Padfone and ...

Slingshot master Joerg Sprave has shown off not only the most powerful , but also the most gleefully insane slingshots during his time as reigning rubber band madman. But even a slingshot devotee as loyal as Sprave had t...

If you're a participant in the iOS ecosystem, then we've got some free money for you. OfficeMax is prepared to sell you 2 $25 iTunes gift cards for $40, and we think you should take them up on the offer. We see discounts...

Over the past few years, manufacturers have been packing more and more features into their televisions--from 3D picture to web browsing--in an industry-wide arms race to differentiate. It hasn't added up to much more tha...