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Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA). You may have...

Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were "going black" on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling...

In the movies, it always start innocently. They are designed to help humans, to do the mundane or difficult tasks that are better suited for non-sentient...

Twitter is used by different people for different things. It's a communication tool for some, a news aggregator for others, and a way to spread a message...

Robotic science is intended to create devices that can aid humans in activities. In some case, it's to help perform tasks that are too difficult or...

In less than a month, Groupon's highly-lauded stocks have plummeted from their IPO sale price of $28 closing today at $15.24, down 46% since their...

At some point, the sheer oddity of Japanese technological solutions to various problems will stop surprising us. That day may have come as the latest...

In design, typeface can be everything. People associate a brand with certain typefaces. Personalities of individuals can be expressed with the...

If it wasn't for Netflix, Wall Street, and Herman Cain, Groupon would probably still be one of the biggest punching bags by bloggers and mainstream media...

Jobs are scarce in most sectors. Silicon Valley is one of those rare areas where the top tech talent is actually being aggressively sought. They aren't...

US Predator and Reaper drones in Afghanistan were hacked and a virus inserted into their remote cockpits at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, logging every...

Today's advancements in technology have made automation a part of our daily lives. Many of the tasks that were once performed by humans are now done by...

Every now and then you come across something that's, well, different. It's hard in today's world where so many products are simply variations of others....

They are the keys we use to get to some of the most important parts of our online lives. Email, bank accounts, social networks, work applications -...

The concept of robots that learn may seem relatively simply. We see robots and machines that are able to perform complex tasks flawlessly and many believe...

Here is a quick tutorial on how to transfer your photos from Facebook to your Google+ account. It's possible that Facebook could shut this off at any...

Had this "deleted scene" been aired during the season 1 finale of Lost, it would have answered a lot of questions. Actually, no, it wouldn't. It would...

Many who have graduated from college and headed towards to the promised land of Silicon Valley in the last few years have dreamed of innovations,...

Shares of online real estate service Zillow more than doubled in their initial public offering on Wednesday, following the same path as other prominent...

Facebook has been doing everything it can to keep people from exporting their contacts to bring them into Google+ ever since the search giant's new social...

Those who have watched the evolution of Netflix over the years are probably aware that the company has done an excellent job of keeping current and having...

The social network has its fingers in a majority of websites in one way or another. Businesses promote their Facebook pages on the homepage of their...

Lodsys is a company on a mission. They have been determined to sue iOS developers who are, in their eyes, illegally using their own patents. But it's more...

The same technology used in 3D postcards and glasses-free 3D televisions is being used by a Japanese research group at the University of...

According to the New York Times, Google is secretly lobbying for legislation that would make self-driving cars legal in the state of Nevada. Google’s...

What began as a high school science fair project has quickly turned into an international sensation. The innovative self-balancing two-wheeled Uno 3...

AeroVironment Inc. is the nation's largest provider of small drones, which are at the forefront of modern war tech .

Google made big news last year when the search giant announced it had developed technology for cars that can drive themselves .

If you want to hear the bright side of a company, you ask the CEO. If you want to hear the challenges, you ask the COO (unless the company is failing, in…

Not content to robotically emulate any and all members of the animal kingdom, humanity has turned to another branch of the Tree of Life for inspiration: that…

Keep smiling, Mark. In a recent email from SecondMarket, the latest auction of Facebook shares hit $28.26, up 24% from just before the holidays and putting…

Fair use. If you buy a device and decide later to switch to a different one, should you be forced to buy the exact same media over again?

In case you had no idea what you were going to do this weekend, here's a suggestion: popcorn. With lasers .

The announcement of the Verizon iPhone launching next month has a lot of people considering changing providers.

BigDog The bot, called Athlete, is the brainchild of Ryuma Niiyama, a post-doctorate student at MIT, and uses pneumatic artificial muscles to simulate human…

In yet another bizarre twist in the Facebook story, now made very public by "The Social Network" movie, a man who was partnered with the Winklevoss twins in…

I remove people from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks on a daily basis — not by choice, but because there is too much information — but I never…

Augmented Reality has been gaining popularity with the growth of smart phones throughout the world, and it appears that Coke Zero and Sausalitos, a german…

Illustrator James Gurney has found a prototype of Apple's next big release: the iBox. This is big, guys.

I've been using PCs for the better part of two decades, and in all that time, I've used Windows' calculator maybe four times.