A crop of startups sees bigger money in re-transmitting old content than in forging new content.
Engineers look at bridges differently than the rest of us. When Jim Nickolaou, an engineer at GM working on advanced safety systems, looks at the Brooklyn Bridge, he admires the structure for its beauty and as a feat of engineering. But he also considers the iconic structure a perfect test bed for the latest driver assist systems on the and upcoming ATS.
Samsung's next Note won't be a phone, or a phablet. Rather, the next Note will end up being the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. And yes, the S Pen stylus will be included.
In its heavyweight court fight with Google over the Android operating system, Oracle saw almost all of its claims rejected by judge and jury. But the software giant did win one battle over a mere nine lines of software code, and the company believes this victory is more important than it might seem.
If there's anything we've learned from Hong Kong cinema, it's that infiltrating the Mob requires absolute vigilance, a plausible cover story, and tibia-crushing fighting skills. Gamers should be prepared to employ all three in August's .
The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is falling apart. Its prime minister has fled the country, and its military equipment is reportedly breaking down. Its tanks, helicopters and aircraft are thirsty for fuel, and Syria's diplomats have scrambled to find countries willing to sell Assad enough gasoline to keep his reign going.
Two Democratic congressmen are proposing sweeping changes to a U.S. privacy law that would always require the government to obtain a probable-cause warrant to access data stored in the cloud.
The latest trailer for director Peter Jackson's is all about Bilbo Baggins' archetypal recruitment for a mission and the irrevocable change it will produce in the reluctant warrior.
Jillian Camarena-Williams on throwing far, facing stereotypes and baking pie.
Nokia is set to debut its initial lineup of Windows Phone 8 devices at the company's Nokia World event in early September, a week before the expected iPhone announcement.
Harvesting strawberries is costly and tricky, but a new 'bot armed with a combo of micro-, radio, terahertz, and far-infrared waves will have the power to pluck the best of a crop.
In 2009, the Navy and the Air Force introduced a new concept for fighting called "Air-Sea Battle."Three years later, even Pentagon insiders are still completely baffled by it.
Ernest Hemingway probably would have hated programming, but Twitter's Angus Croll imagines a parallel universe where Hemingway, Dickens and others try their hand at writing JavaScript.
This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang talks about two new smartphones from Huawei and the new Outlook.com email service from Microsoft.
It's no secret that most main characters in videogames are dudes ? or at least some kind of dude-esque creature (and female characters that do exist who are female are often damsel-in-distress types or sexy sidekicks). So artist Amanda Hemmons decided to re-imagine them. Hemmons, a 25-year-old artist, has taken some of the most iconic videogame characters ? from Bowser to Duke Nukem ? and used them as inspirations for geek girl fashions. Her illustrations will be on display as part of computer game maker Big Fish's presence at GeekGirlCon being held in Seattle Aug. 11-12.
The FBI is treating Sunday's attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, as a "possible act of domestic terrorism" -- raising the possibility that the face of domestic terrorism in the United States looks different than the homegrown jihadism many have forecasted.
NBC has been raked over the coals for continuing to tape-delay TV coverage of the biggest events of the 2012 Olympic Games in a world where the internet makes the results so readily available to the general public. But in other respects, the venerable TV network is dealing with this internet thing just fine, reports ...
On the web there's no such thing as too fast. To help your pages load even quicker Google's PageSpeed service has added a new feature that looks at the whole webpage and makes sure the visible, above-the-fold content loads before anything else.
Sarah Hammer is the world's best 3,000-meter track cyclist, but she has no chance of winning an Olympic medal in that event...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped a picture of the Curiosity rover's nail-biting and extremely successful descent.
For the past month, Transmedia LA has been running an alternate-reality game out of Los Angeles' Miracle Mile as a Kickstarter-funded experiment in game development for its members. The game centers around the Time Switch, a device that receives transmissions from the past.
Swiss biologists are testing a sheep collar wolf-warning device that registers heart rate changes and alerts shepherds to attacks via text message, while simultaneously emitting a repellant.
Reports have emerged that New Zealand's Tongariro volcano has erupted and dumped several inches of ash on nearby areas. Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti reports on the ongoing event.
An athletic man jumps 64 inches into the air from a complete standstill -- or does he? Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain uses math to see if the impressive video is real or fake.
With Dell now in the cloud game with IBM and HP, there's real competition. The winner will be the company that rallies around its partners the best, and provides them with the tools and resources to make great things happen, writes Todd Nielsen.
From a castle built in the 16th century to a beach volleyball arena erected in 36 days, the London Olympics has some beautiful, historic, unusual and interesting venues. Viewed from space, the range and breadth of the different arenas, structures, parks and courses come into focus. Here we bring you most of the sites of the 2012 Olympic Games, stretching from Scotland to the southern edge of England.
The news has been full of stories about the great white sharks spotted off Cape Cod this summer, along with the recent shark attack on a swimmer at Cape Cod Beach. I've been following this one closely because the Cape is one of my family's favorite vacation spots and the beaches are a big part of the attraction. While great white sharks make for great headlines (unless you own a business that suffers as a result), I've noticed a trend in recent years and they're just part of it: wild animals are becoming a bigger factor to consider in many vacations. It's not just the potential for extreme weather we need to be aware of; extreme animals can be something to watch for, at least in natural settings. Last year at the Cape we went to see huge seal colonies, this summer we've were dealing with black bears at our campsite and a few years ago, it was masses of jellyfish on the beaches of Prince Edward Island. Seals and jellyfish and bears, oh my!
There may be millions watching you compete in the Games, but it?s just you, alone, on the water.
When Lawrence Landweber created the Computer Science Network (CSNET), an intentionally open computer network that helped pave the way for the modern internet, he knew one day its technology would be used in banking, travel, and commerce. He didn't predict that the unsecure network he built would allow hackers to take down websites or extract private information today.
Why is Breaking Bad so good? There?s the obvious: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are incredible actors, and Vince Gilligan's writing and direction is phenomenal. But there?s something else that also sets the show apart. The cinematography.