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It's a happy holiday season indeed for Clarksville, Tennessee officials. Google vice president for Data Center Operations Joe Kava has confirmed to The Leaf-Chronicle that the company is turning the old 1,300-acre Hemloc...

An alleged hacker has been charged with stealing television scripts, celebrity social security numbers, explicit personal videos, and more through the use of phishing techniques and malware. None of the victims have been...

The National Security Archive has published what is said to be the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear weapons targets and applied weapons strategy that has ever been declassified. The report includes details...

You certainly have reason to be upset at how Apple handled iMessages for users switching away from iOS, but it's clear that not everyone has raised those gripes the right way. Judge Lucy Koh (from the Apple-versus-Samsun...

Now that Sony has more or less given up on first-party support for the Vita, indie games have become the portable system's lifeblood. It should come as no surprise, then, that when The Banner Saga developer Stoic announc...

When we talk about Panasonic, the Japanese consumer electronics giant certainly comes up with its fair share of devices over the years, and the realm of cameras is also one in which it has rolled out a number of shooters...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once advised, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." The world would have been in for a bit of a shock if they'd found themselves at the door of one J.E. Bennett of Fr...

As the shiniest of characters, the most reflective of all Star Wars characters, and a Game of Thrones actress to boot, Captain Phasma has our attention. We've been wondering what the backstory is on this character since ...

Think you're the biggest Star Wars fan in our neck of the galaxy? Here's your chance to prove it once and for all, because only the most loyal of Star Wars devotees will be willing to spend just shy of $25,000 for a ligh...

When we think about Santa Claus covering the entire globe and depositing presents under the Christmas tree (surely he would not have to do that much work in selected areas within the Middle East as opposed to the other p...

Okay, seriously NASA, release your staff for the holidays. They're clearly bored, and when nerds with access to world-class planetary data get bored, bad stuff happens. Case in point? Christmas Pluto.

Last week we brought you the news that Bandai Namco was making a special controller with a single game in mind. Specifically, this controller was designed for Pokken Tournament, a Pokemon arcade fighter. While it was int...

Yes, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a huge deal right now. The movie was great all tiny arguments about it aside, and now we’re all scrambling to deck out our places with Star Wars gear. Our nostalgia is in full swing...

Shortly after Mozilla said that it was done with Firefox OS smartphones, it confirmed that the OS would live on in connected devices. We might now have a better idea of what that means, thanks to a leak from Hipertextual...

Turns out, the hard shell of a coconut is really, really good at trapping the heat of the molten copper! Because once you fill up the little brown ball with the molten copper, it stays hot forever and brings everything t...

'Tis the season for rendering architectural icons out of cookies and plotting to murder your family in a remote mountain hotel. Now the two best things about Christmastime are together at last.

Kylo Ren had a huge legacy to live up to in the new Star Wars, because Darth Vader is one of cinema's all-time great villains. But Vader's legacy is also a huge part of what makes Kylo Ren so fascinating--because he's ev...

Not all printers are created equal, this we know for sure. After all, there are some printers which churn out some pretty good looking images, while other printers do happen to have a lower level of quality, perhaps sacr...

Earlier this year, a maintenance worker found a golden scepter in a Jerusalem cemetery. Antiquity experts were stumped, prompting a six-month long investigation into its origin. A Facebook user has now correctly identifi...

A few more details about Miitomo, Nintendo's first smartphone game developed in partnership with Japan's DeNA, have been revealed in a new Wall Street Journal interview with the latter's CEO, Isao Moriyasu. We've previou...

I always thought that those as seen on TV-style ab-toning belts were a con, with only the most credulous of fools being taken in by them. "That's not a way to get fitter," scoffed my internal monologue, "it's a bunch of ...

Whether or not we’re thinking about it, we associate cracking open nuts with the holidays. There’s the Nutcracker and the song about roasting chestnuts, so it’s somewhat ingrained in us from an early age. Of course...