Sliding dry ice may create Mars 'toboggan tracks'[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:57:32 GMT ]By Larry O'HanlonDiscovery NewsThere is no mistaking them: the tracks of tobogganers on the frigid slopes of Mars. The Martian toboggans in this case are slabs of dry ice that are now believed to slide down sand dunes and create long, narrow channels that had previously been ascribed to some sort of weird water seeps.The new explanation for the strangely long, high-sided channels in dune faces has...

U.K. watchdog demands probe into Google tax affairs[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:31:07 GMT ]The search giant should be investigated by the U.K. tax authority over its approach to paying taxes, says a report by a parliamentary watchdog. [Read more]

Apple suppliers ship parts for low-cost iPhone -- report[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:57:07 GMT ]Parts are being shipped out for a new, cheaper iPhone, according to a report from the China Times. [Read more]

Geek forges homemade solid gold iPod watch[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:50:44 GMT ]A geek maker comes by his 18-karat gold iPod Nano watch the hard way, by making it himself over the course of 500 hours of work. [Read more]

The 404 throwback interview with Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:00 GMT ]Here's another throwback episode of The 404 Show where Jeff sat down on August 3, 2012, with Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan, two of the members of the comedy group Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Beerfest). [Read more]

Is there happiness in being unGoogleable?[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:04:18 GMT ]Bands such as !!! (yes, that's its name) strive to be cool by being anonymous. Might the recent NSA revelations spur us to withdraw from the Web? And would being unGoogleable make you happy? [Read more]

Privacy? No, we're all Web-famous[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:59:41 EDT ]We've created this socially enmeshed world in which private and public are blurred. How can we keep the two separate?

Taking NSA protests online[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:18:27 EDT ]People outraged by recent news of the National Security Agency's collection of phone records and Internet monitoring are taking action online.

Solutions to smartphone theft[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:57:58 EDT ]CNN's Samuel Burke reports on new ways police and companies are working to protect against rising smartphone theft.

Facebook finally gets #hashtags[ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:51:31 EDT ]Hashtags are coming to Facebook to help users better surface conversations.

Microsoft defends Xbox One: 'Digital is better'[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:56:34 EDT ]"This is a big change, consumers don't always love change, and there's a lot of education we have to provide to make sure that people understand."

Researchers measure distracted drivers’ brain activity[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:38:22 GMT ]

Is public shaming on social media acceptable?[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:26:05 GMT ]

Man admits electrocuted alien story was a hoax[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:58:25 GMT ]

English flying reptiles had relatives in Brazil[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:48:45 GMT ]By Stephanie PappasLiveScience Flying reptiles that once winged around England 110 million years ago are closely related to their contemporaries found in Brazil and elsewhere around the world, new research finds.The new study is the first comprehensive look at the dizzying array of pterosaur bone fragments found in England. These fossils, which date back to the Cretaceous period, are all fragmenta...

New type of variable star captured in photo[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:05:15 GMT ]By Miriam KramerSpace.comA previously unknown kind of variable star is on brilliant display 7,000 light-years from Earth in a new photo taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.For years scientists have known that the apparent brightness of many stars changes over time, however, the kind of variable star seen in this new European Southern Observatory photo of the open star cluster NGC 3766 ...

Nvidia: Next-gen consoles still can't keep up with our chips[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:00:45 GMT ]The company may have sour grapes because the next-gen consoles are running GPUs from competitor AMD. [Read more]

Pay TV goading media companies to withhold on Web?[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:15:22 GMT ]Bloomberg reports Time Warner Cable and other pay-TV operators are using tactics to staunch the spread of Web-based entertainment. [Read more]

Kanye remixes: I am the next Steve Jobs[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:19:03 GMT ]Kanye West repeats his assertion in a New York Times interview that he is, indeed, the second coming of the Apple CEO. [Read more]

Tim Cook maintains Steve Jobs' Beatles business model[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:25:02 GMT ]Most of Apple's executives spent more than a decade with Steve Jobs, who admired the Beatles as a group who kept each other's negative tendencies in check. [Read more]

Hidden iOS 7 feature puts panoramas in lock-screen[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:58:51 GMT ]Previously undocumented feature uses iPhone's built-in sensors to track how you're holding your phone to show off big photos. [Read more]

Gadget gift ideas for Father's Day[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:09:10 EDT ]Let's face it: in 2013, the words "dad" and "tech" don't clash like they used to. So here are some gadgets to consider for Father's Day.

Law would let cops read your texts[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:55:34 EDT ]You've been in an accident. The police officer goes through the normal drill, asking for your license and registration.

The face behind 'BioShock Infinite'[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:53:32 EDT ]The creator of "BioShock Infinite" explains what it took to create one of the year's most critically acclaimed games.

We're all Web-famous. So what next?[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:54:58 EDT ]We've created this socially enmeshed world in which private and public are blurred. How can we keep the two separate?

Online, we're all celebrities now. So what next?[ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:16:30 EDT ]We've created this socially enmeshed world in which private and public are blurred. How can we keep the two separate?

Jim Cramer: Apple’s new release lacks ‘wow' factor[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:11:07 GMT ]

China launches spacecraft from Gobi Desert[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:51:48 GMT ]

Pre-caffeine tech: Apple, E3, 3-D and more[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:09:46 GMT ]Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Yesterday at the World Wide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled OS 7, iTunes Radio, a new MacBook Air and offered a sneak peek at the new. Check it out! By combining the best of Apple design with good ideas from its competitors, Apple's latest and greatest is exactly what Apple needed to ...

New kind of dark matter might form 'dark atoms'[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:49:03 GMT ]By Charles Q. ChoiSpace.comThe mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the universe could be composed, in part, of invisible and nearly intangible counterparts of atoms, protons and electrons, researchers say.Dark matter is an invisible substance thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe. Scientists inferred the existence of dark matter via its gravitational e...

Google buys Waze in bid to improve mapping services[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:47:31 GMT ]The acquisition, for which terms weren't disclosed, will leave the Waze in Israel and operating separately for now [Read more]

Dish still unwilling to let Sprint go, despite SoftBank deal[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:52:12 GMT ]Although there is just one day before shareholders vote on SoftBank's bid to acquire Sprint, Dish is still scrambling to change the fate of the deal. [Read more]

Humans not in South Asia before major eruption[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:11:31 GMT ]By Tia GhoseLiveScienceHumans didn't enter the Indian subcontinent until after the massive eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra nearly 75,000 years ago, new research suggests — overturning a previous idea that humans arrived much earlier.The research, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a combination of archaeological and genetic data to suggest a new...

What is 1080p24?[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:55:00 GMT ]This number/letter combo is the key to film-like movies shown closer to the way the director intended. [Read more]

iPhone 5 beaten by Galaxy S4 in our brutal destruction test (video)[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:02:11 GMT ]We dunk, scratch and drop the two hottest smart phones, to discover which is tougher. And then we run them over. [Read more]

The 404 Throwback: Episode 634, 07/30/10[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:00 GMT ]Here's a throwback episode of The 404 Show where we interviewed Michael Showalter. The comedian behind "The State" and "Wet Hot American Summer" joins us in the studio to chat about his new "Making of..." Web series on Babelgum. [Read more]

Teen builds working submarine [ Fri, 31 May 2013 15:17:24 EDT ]An 18-year-old high school student, Justin Beckerman, has built a one-man submarine. The Nautilus took its teen inventor six months and US$2,000 to put together. All while keeping on top of his homework.

Vine gets 'Rickrolled' by 16-year-old[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:53:47 EDT ]Oh, Rickrolling. Even on Vine, Twitter's app that lets users shoot and share six-second videos, the Web is never gonna give you up.

Tech tools for better fitness[ Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:50:41 EDT ]Last November, avid biker Leon Shaner found himself pushing harder than usual to keep up with a new friend.

Google and 'The Internship'[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:17:44 EDT ]In "The Internship," co-stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson share the screen with a somewhat demanding co-star: Google.

The bold new Mac most people won't buy[ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:55:24 EDT ]The big hardware unveil at Monday's Apple press event was the new Mac Pro, a sleek cylindrical desktop computer and the most powerful machine Apple has ever built. It was the announcement that prompted Apple executive Phil Schiller to exclaim, "Can't innovate anymore, my ass."

Top Google searches: ‘Man of Steel,’ Jim Carrey[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:31:59 GMT ]

Google doodles wild things for Maurice Sendak[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:42:37 GMT ]It's Maurice Sendak's 85th birthday, and Google's homepage has turned into an animated fantasy world inhabited by Max, the star of Sendak's most famous book, "Where The Wild Things Are." Sendak, children's book author and illustrator, died in May 2012, but lived to see "Wild Things" turned into a movie in 2009. In today's Doodle, a Max in full wolf costume sails away to the island of the Wild Thin...

Study: Millennials are most-connected consumers[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:42:38 GMT ]

8 gadget ideas for Father’s Day[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:42:38 GMT ]

Light pollution can impact nesting sea turtles[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:05:07 GMT ]By Elizabeth HowellLiveScience Light pollution along the Mediterranean is changing the nesting habits of sea turtles in Israel, according to new research.Orbital pictures of the region, coupled with sea turtle nesting data from Israel's National Parks Authority, revealed that the species of turtles in that area cluster their nests in darker spots."The two species of sea turtle in our study are noc...

Apple Store goes down in anticipation of WWDC[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:01:33 GMT ]As is customary with Apple events, the company's online store is officially down as it prepares for the WWDC keynote on Monday. [Read more]

AT&T brings enhanced push-to-talk app to iPhone[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:13:56 GMT ]The carrier's new iPhone app allows business users to communicate with large groups of people via a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. [Read more]

Stay away from meetings with iRobot Ava 500 telepresence bot[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:21:29 GMT ]With an iPad interface, the Ava 500 navigates to distant meetings while you stay put. Could this be a Roomba for the office? [Read more]

One in three Americans are toting tablets now[ Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:47:12 GMT ]Tablet ownership has nearly doubled in the last year, a Pew study finds, and the people buying them tend to be older and richer than those gravitating to devices like smartphones. [Read more]