Best Place For French Fries? The Solar System
Food researchers have pinned down the ideal gravitational conditions for frying "potato sticks," and they're not found on this side of the asteroid belt.
View ArticleDNA Solves One Of The Titanic's Oldest Mysteries
More than 100 years after Loraine Allison disappeared with the sinking ship, genetic testing uncovers a massive hoax and brings to light who this girl really was.
View ArticleLatest Apple Rumor Involves Two Bigger Displays For iPhone
The company will reportedly offer a device with a screen size larger than 4.5 inches and another over 5 inches.
View ArticleFacbook 'Study' Finds Princeton University Will Be Dead By 2021
The mock study serves as the company's witty response to a widely circulated Princeton research paper that used a similar methodology to conclude that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017.
View ArticleHow The 'Netflix Of Books' Won Over The Publishing Industry
Oyster has grown its library of books available to its all-you-can-eat subscribers to more than 100,000 titles. CEO Eric Stromberg talks about how it happened, and how the company is changing the world...
View ArticleChrome Apps Are Going Mobile
There's still a lot of work to be done, but Chrome's HTML5 Apps can now work on both Android and iOS (with a little help from a friend) just months after they were first announced for desktops.
View ArticleThe Startup That Won Itself A Super Bowl Ad
GoldieBlox, a company that makes toys to teach girls about engineering, wins an Intuit competition and gets a spot during the big game.
View ArticleWhat Can A Red Balloon Tell Us About Self-Control?
Researchers watch the light show that happens in the brain when study participants are faced with a risky decision in a nondescript video game.
View ArticleMilitary Starts Testing Smart Rifles For Battlefield Use
The U.S. Army has bought a handful of computer systems that can turn lesser-trained soldiers into premier snipers.
View ArticleDating Online? You're Probably A Sexter
Despite the potential repercussions of exchanging explicit content, sexting is becoming increasingly popular.
View ArticleYou Can't Actually Sell Your Flappy Bird Phone On eBay
Sellers who attempted to capitalize on withdrawal symptoms suffered by those addicted to the year's hottest app report that eBay has put the kibosh on their cash cow.
View ArticleGoogle Glass Enthusiast: It's Not Worth The Headaches
Chris Barrett, who was first to take Google Glass into a casino and also said he was first to film an arrest with Glass, finds he gets too many headaches. He's also lost his enthusiasm for the gadget.
View ArticleHow Tech's Culture War Feeds The Art Of The Outrageous
If the clash between Silicon Valley and the nontech community is indeed "class warfare," as some have suggested, then there's an arms race for shock value.
View ArticleKickstarter Hacked, User Data Stolen
The crowd-funding site says hackers broke into its systems and made off with data. Apparently credit card numbers escaped the attack.
View ArticleWhy Mark Zuckerberg's Future Points To Bill Gates' Past
Different eras and different technologies, but both moguls share a common trait when it comes to pursuing their enlightened self-interest.
View ArticleBan Lifted: It's Time For 'Doctor Who' Lego
Whovians, start building your best Tardis. Lego Cuusoo relaxes its ban on "Doctor Who" fan-submitted projects.
View ArticleTeenager Builds Working Fusion Reactor
Not many 13-year-olds would describe themselves as an "amateur nuclear scientist."
View ArticleMarvel Adds Sound To Comics
Marvel upgrades its subscription app with a long-promised smart soundtrack and DVD-style video commentary, after spending a year laying the foundation for a more multimedia-friendly comics reading...
View ArticleI Was A Teenage Dial-Up Addict
This World Wide Web you're looking at right now wasn't always something most people considered worth a second glance — let alone years of nonstop staring. In fact, even some of the big info-nerds of...
View ArticleMt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins In Unused Wallet
Mt. Gox has discovered 200,000 missing bitcoins in a wallet no longer in use, the troubled Bitcoin exchange announced Thursday, reducing the number of missing bitcoins from 850,000 to 650,000.
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