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If the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now on: the world's first website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it we...

Having an origin story on the H.R. Geiger's Alien would definitely be cool, although it does seem to have been botched up some time ago with engineers and a space traveler who can seem to only run in a single direction �...

With a few exceptions, web status codes are meant to indicate errors. A 404 page shows up when you tried to reach content that wasn't found, for example. However, there's now a code for those times when that absence is a...

Tesla has inked a deal with Spotify to include premium music streaming for the Model S, direct from the huge in-dash touchscreen. The agreement will affect cars in Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia, which until now have u...

Earlier today a China Mobile conference leaked - or didn't seem to care about revealing - the release date of the Samsung Galaxy S7. Previously we'd been told by anonymous sources that the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Edge woul...

Online researcher Chris Vickery uncovered a database this weekend containing the personal information of 3.3 million accounts associated with Hello Kitty Online and official Hello Kitty websites, including SanrioTown.com...

Time capsules can be pretty boring. But time capsule nerds like me live for those rare capsules with something really cool inside. This year we saw time capsules filled with the weird, the rare, and the surprising. One t...

BMW and Nissan have joined forces to take on Tesla's Supercharger network, installing new electric car chargers at 120 locations across the US. The stations, which will be capable of recharging a Nissan Leaf or BMW i3 to...

Things are going from bad to worse for Toshiba, with the company revealing plans to lay off another 6,800 workers amidst a record net financial loss. This follows a report earlier this month stating the company will spin...

One of the biggest gripes about downloadable games (unless you're a developer) is that you can't typically resell them -- that title is yours forever, even if you'll never play it again. French consumer group UFC-Que Cho...

Wasps are notorious for devouring other creatures from the inside out. Now scientists have learned that after they've killed something, they wrap themselves up in its cocoon for good measure and exhibit strange jumping b...

I used to play WoW quite a bit back in the day, and I've been clean for a couple of years now. One aspect of the game that rarely appealed to me was PVP. Mostly because I've been an adult for the entire time the game has...

First, the good news: 2015 was a fantastic year at the movies. There were great original stories, sequels done right, adaptations that match their source material and more. But for every great movie, there's a ton of bad...

A Kickstarter project aims to be the perfect solution for the DIY crowd. Thimble, which has already beat its pledged goal of $25,000, says it wants to deliver different electronic kits to tinkerers every month, with the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has stated that information in its drone registry will be made publicly available in searches -- including names and home addresses. The registry, which went live today, is part of the...

In the coffee-world, there's been quiet rumblings of a shortage brewing for awhile now. And yet, despite the threat, it hasn't hit quite yet--but that doesn't mean it's gone away.

Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck , some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the film's hero, a "Mar...

This morning astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter to speak about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He took time to pay extra attention to Han Solo's claim of "making the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs." Han Solo make...

Boy, don't you just love the way technology advances over the years? There has been changes here and there, where small steps have been taken, not to mention leaps being made from time to time, to make live a whole lot e...

Of all the times Pivotal Living could've launched its body-fat measuring Smart Scale, the gluttonous period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is probably the most painful. Still, minimal sticker shock does at least temp...

I've been a loyal Verizon customer since the mid-1990s when I got my first StarTac. Heck, I even work for them, technically. And for the duration of that two-decade relationship, despite the company's excruciatingly lack...

Remember a couple weeks back when we told you that Cortana was finally rolling out to Android? Yes, Microsoft's holographic hands-free assistant was finally available on a non-Microsoft device. But unfortunately as of to...