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I'm not trying to say the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy, but guys: the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy. Introducing the...
In a head-scratchingly bass-ackwards marketing decision, you can now send recorded videos to friends and family (and enemies, I guess - who are we to...

Have you ever spilled ketchup on a table and wished there was a way to pick it up in its current form and replace it intact somewhere else?

If Google has AdSense, let's just call this NonSense. A new advertising campaign for people-what-make-cars Alfo Romeo is (we desperately hope) not the future…

Talk about gratitude. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram , a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' to pay homage to the role…

And here is a visual riddle to help ferry you into the weekend - Escher's Waterfall, come to life. I've been sitting here for longer than I should trying to figure this one out. Any insights, Techi readers? Or did we


Effective immediately, Big Steve has been made to take medical leave from Apple again, handing the reigns over to COO Tim Cook and sending the following memo…
If you've always wanted an iPhone but have been too intimidated by its gargantuan price, now could be the time, as Apple has begun selling the 3GS for a mere…
From the file labelled 'stuff you didn't expect to hear about today' comes this puzzler: LG has announced that it's teaming up with film score icon Ennio…

Star Wars creator George Lucas has been busy of late, pulling together the makings of his grandest special effect to date: resurrecting the dead.

A new survey conducted by Japanese ad agency Dentsu has revealed the 'hit recognized products' in Japan for 2010. And hoo boy, what a list it is.

I can't remember the last time I swallowed a foreign object on purpose. I think I was, like, six, and it was a Micro Machine. Remember Micro Machines?

Okay, 'released' isn't exactly the right word. But the now-mythic white iPhone 4 has been spotted in China, and it can be yours for the bargain price of up…

Now this is an odd bug, if I've ever heard of one. Apparently, thousands of female Facebook users have been attempting to log on, only to find their accounts…
I'm gonna spare you the obvious 'eyes in the back of your head' joke, except for this sentence, where I make reference to the joke I didn't just make.

I'm a fan of 6pt type, but this is ridiculous. Computer science professor Ken Perlin has decided to claim the title of designer of the smallest readable…

I'm one of those who denies the iPad's usefulness as a creative tool. Sure, there are cute little apps for that let you make cute little tunes, but despite a…

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.

Soon, you may have an entirely new scapegoat for not attending all manner of functions: a printer jam.

I've never liked Electronic Arts much, DRM-hawking corporate bad guys that we hardcore gamers make them out to be. But this is a sad day, indeed....

I've been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what this is. Seems like...

Oh, Japan. You'll never cease coming up with the best stuff. Why, just last night I was regaling a friend about 'head bath', which is a bathtub. For the...

Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and over again by a robot. A researcher...