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Google+: One tool to bind them all

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:53 EDT

For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than a social network or cool video-chatting tool. This week, it is working to hammer home that point with a spate of new features.

Google+: One tool to bind them all

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:42 EDT

For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than a social network or cool video-chatting tool. This week, it is working to hammer home that point with a spate of new features.

Meet your robot bartender

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:40:32 EDT

Crowd control took on a whole new meaning last night as a room full of partygoers in San Francisco were given power over a cocktail-making robot controlled by their smartphones.

Tech tools tell you you're drunk

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:18 EDT

Even if they don't admit it, most people know when they're hammered.

'Star Trek' or 'Star Wars'?

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:28:41 EDT

Photon torpedoes and proton torpedoes. Warp speed and hyperspace.

Yes, it's a cocktail-making robot bartender

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:34:42 EDT

Crowd control took on a whole new meaning last night as a room full of partygoers in San Francisco were given power over a cocktail-making robot controlled by their smartphones.

Tech tools tell you you're drunk

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:18 EDT

Even if they don't admit it, most people know when they're hammered.

Whose tech is better: 'Star Trek' or 'Star Wars'?

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:58:43 EDT

Photon torpedoes and proton torpedoes. Warp speed and hyperspace.

10 fun facts about Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:08:49 EDT

Tuesday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. He's 29. If that seems insanely young for a billionaire, remember that he co-founded Facebook when he was a teenager.

We the Geeks: a nerdy Constitution

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:33:43 EDT

Light-up wheels turn bike into 'Tron Cycle'

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:18 EDT

Anyone that bikes dreams of riding a Tron Light Cycle. Revolights, a set of wheel-mounted LEDs, now makes that dream a little closer to reality, and a new built-in version is helping that system become even more lightweight and simple than the original bolt-on setup.

Meet the Rules of the Internet

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:37:20 EST

Hello! Welcome to the Internet. It's a big place, so let me show you around.

Why disc drives are an endangered species

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:46:11 EST

Could the phrase "burn a disc" soon be interred in the computing graveyard, resting peacefully alongside 8-bit graphics and the chirping, buzzing hum of a dial-up modem? Some of the most influential computer makers in the world say yes.

Netiquette: Saying farewell

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:03:24 EST

So many folks manage to lose their netiquette heads when they scramble, legs flailing and akimbo, toward the denouement of events and life chapters. So here is the ultimate (get it?) digital-etiquette guide to a polite big finish.

10 smartphone habits to avoid

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:31 EDT

How annoying and rude and antisocial have we all become with our smartphones? We're embarrassing ourselves all over the place. Please stop.

Five texts you should never send

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:53:26 EDT

We're texting more than ever, and, like society, the texts themselves are getting worse and worse. Read on to learn just how terrible silent cell phone users are these days.

An open letter to texting-mad teenagers

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:59:24 EDT

Put your phone down for a second, teen texters -- there are some things you've got to hear.

Meet the real Robocop

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:02:41 EDT

Take a pair of hi-fi speakers, an old radio, a couple of DVD players and countless other household appliances, apply some ingenuity and what do you get? If you're Mark Haygood, an ex-cop turned robot maker, you get HEX -- a four foot, three-inch tall humanoid robot.

Gamma-ray burst riddle

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:39:25 EDT

On April 27, NASA satellites detected a strong signal from the brightest gamma-ray burst in decades. Because this was relatively close, it was thousands of times brighter than the typical gamma-ray bursts that are seen by Swift every few days. Scientists are now scrambling to learn more.

Designs to define the future

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:50:36 EDT

From digital tattoos to mind reading headphones, in what areas will the next major technology breakthroughs occur? We spoke to a host of design and tech experts -- from academics to magazine editors -- searching for the shape of things to come.