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We've seen rugs that let you cruise through the cosmos in your slippers, but these lovely floor coverings take a more terrestrial approach. Each of the one-meter-square samples is hand-tufted to depict a small glimpse of...

While 2 Live Crew is arguably best remembered for their on-stage antics and contentious court battle against obscenity charges, the Miami-based hip-hop group actually played a vital part in creating the Internet we know ...

Today Beats Music opened its API to the public, a lure to bring in developers who can then, with the right amount of ambition and coffee, spread the subscription service …

I think we can all agree that Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is the very worst of the Indy movies, but I don't recall it being as bad as this Everything wrong with... episode shows. No, wait, I do now...

This magical, 17-story tower is set to rise in Montpellier, France, after Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto won a competition to design it this week. The complex's name? L'Arbre Blanc, or "the White Tree."

It's no Forrest Gump but this moving one armed robot is plenty good at ping pong. And may be even better than you. Watch it extend its arm to cover ground, cycle through backhand and forehand shots and hit the ball so ef...

Two cool new things you can spend your hard-earned dollars on showed up this week, and they're both (potentially) very neon green.

At South by Southwest Interactive today, Google's Eric Schmidt spoke on the topic of NSA spying and security, touching on things like user privacy and how the Internet giant responded …

Well folks, the weekend's nearly here. Time to kick back and spend some quality time decompressing with your Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone. Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just happy it's the weekend?

Internet-based television has been thrust back into the spotlight following a deal earlier this week between Disney and Dish Network, and subsequent revelations by DirecTV and Verizon about their own …

So much for surprises. Oppo has been trying to maintain an aura of mystery around the launch of the Find 7 on March 19th, but the design lovers at Red Dot have spoiled things by showing off the smartphone in their produc...

Yesterday, a dismissal was issued by NTSB Administrative Law Judge Patrick Geraghty in favor of the first individual to be ticketed by the Federal Aviation Administration for commecial drone usage. …

It was a particularly weird week for time capsules. Everybody's trying to figure out where those 19th century coins came from, a town in Australia is debating whether they should open a 1994 capsule with old photos of Ke...

I'm pretty sure this is what Snoop Dogg sees every time he opens his eyes.

I am not quite sure about you, but how many times in your life can you remember heading off to the nearest photo booth because you needed a portrait snapshot of yourself, pronto? Perhaps it would be for a visa applicatio...

Microsoft is using its users' data to target political ads to its roster of gamers, the Washington Post has reported. The company wants targeted ads on multiple of its services, …

Italy is cracking down on piracy in a mass shutdown of websites -- in the form of blocking at the Internet service provider level -- that are related in some …

I just came across this cool old time-lapse video made by scientists from the US Geological Survey: The collapse of the crater floor of the Pu u Ō ō, one of the cones of the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii.

Did you guys know there is a Gizmodo subdomain where you can go for all things photographic? Yep! It's called Reframe, and it's where you'll find additional coverage of gear, techniques, news, and all kinds of great stuf...

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then this set of Tangram puzzle sticky notes let you leave a longer message than you could ever fit on a single Post-it note. The collection of angular shapes can be arranged into a...

One of the hottest new apps set to debut this week at SXSW, that annual intermingling of tenuous ideas and easy money, was LIVR, a social network exclusively for drunk people. Media and investors alike lined up to laud i...

We know Watson has some Jeopardy skills, but putting IBM's supercomputer in the kitchen? That's a little different. Here at SXSW, the company's set up a "Cognitive Cooking" food truck in partnership with the Institute fo...