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Those of you who have found the new Google Maps lacking may have reason to give it another chance. Starting today, Google will be rolling out a variety of new (and new-old) features designed to increase functionality wit...

It would appear that there will, indeed, be an opportunity for you, the member of the public, to get your hands on the fabled white Xbox One. This machine is the employees-only version of the console, reserved only for t...

There are a couple of Google engineers working for the Google security team replying in kind to the NSA and the GCHQ (on the other side of the ocean) regarding the most recent round of Edward Snowden-leaked documents on ...

Portable document scanners have existed for years, and you can even get models as small as a business card. The catch, however, is that you need to physically move the scanner across a document yourself, which often lead...

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The work of photographer Thomas Senf is the focus of a short video hosted by The Guardian, documenting the stunning lengths he's gone through to shoot climbers scaling frozen waterfalls at night in the mountains of Norwa...

For my birthday two years ago, I treated myself to an 11-inch MacBook Air. I bought it with the intention of using it mainly as a writing machine away from home, for my blog and for school. It was (and ...

While Karma had a good idea when it launched its shareable hotspot service last year, it had to rely on Clearwire's WiMAX data -- not what we'd share with others when the technology is on its way out. The company is catc...

I worked at Blockbuster off and on all through high school and college. It was easily the best minimum wage job I ever had (admittedly, that's a fairly small list). The people I worked with were always cool, and managers...

The Death Star Cookie Jar is an official Star Wars product, and you may not use it to fire a deadly planet-killing superlaser. What you can do is use it as a space for stationing crunchy cookies or as a...

The dramatic overhaul of Google Maps on the desktop saw the world lose a good friend. That friend: Pegman. The tiny yellow avatar that you could drop almost anywhere to get instant access to Street View disappeared. Inst...

The original iPad is getting rather long in the tooth these days having been on the market for three years. The first-generation iPad has been around long enough that most trade-in programs giving owners money to apply t...

Sony has announced that the PS3 game console has hit a significant sales milestone around the world. It’s hard to believe that the PS3 has been on the market for seven years now, it doesn’t seem like that long. Sony ...

When Apple took the wraps off a brand new version of iWork last month, it unfortunately had to cut a few features on its way to a 64-bit codebase and drastic redesign. Predictably, more than just a few users cried foul. ...

This is one of the most satisfying things I've seen in a long time: watch Jar-Jar Binks--the biggest assclown in the galaxy far far away--getting killed in a deleted Star Wars scene that has been perfectly edited by fans...

Last year NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealed a Spiderman-inspired grippy claw that would let spacecraft easily grab onto passing asteroids and comets. Since then the technology has been further refined and now int...

How often have you stared at a piece of technology and felt like you absolutely needed it? That's just consumerism at work, my friends! How often have you stared at food and wanted to eat it? That's human nature! So when...

There's a new Swype in town this week for Android, running with new features requested by the masses throughout the year. This version of the 3rd-party keyboard software continues to replace the standard keyboard experie...

It doesn’t take long for humans to learn knife safety. From an early age, parents drill into the kids that knives are sharp and if you aren’t careful you can cut or stab yourself. One significant cut with a knife als...

There have been a few Google barges discovered thus far. The sightings only began about a month earlier, however that doesn’t seem to have stopped the rumors and speculation from going into a bit of an overdrive state....

Microwaves are rarely seen as the focal point of your kitchen, but maybe they should be? German appliance maker Caso sure thinks so. The company's new HCMG25 microwave features a giant black mirror glass front panel with...

The SLIMplistic Wallet, by MSTRMND Collective, is a slim, simplistic, practical modern wallet, locally handcrafted from choice Italian leather and custom elastic. The SLIMplistic is slightly larger than a single credit c...