As innovators look for ways to keep mobile devices charged when away from power outlets, Genneo offers a new alternative that generates power from an unexpected source -- your movement. Through a standard USB port, the product turns your movement int...
The U.S. government is studying whether it can scour social-media websites for clues about potential risks from workers such as Edward Snowden and the Washington Navy Yard shooter. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked gove...
Long ago, haunted Halloween houses had to put time and effort into their tricks. It took ghouls, goblins and mask-wearing-men-with-chainsaws to spook their visitors. But in 2013, there's no need for all the fuss. In this Unearthed Comics, artist Sara...
On the Internet, it's easy to create a new pseudonym or personality. But what happens if you remove the concept of a user profile all together? That's what Whisper, an anonymous mobile social network for Android and iOS does. By removing the user's i...
Homer Simpson never looked this beat. French artist and graphic designer Pierre-Yves Riveau, known as PEZ, has released a series of sketches that imagine sinewy and dilapidated versions of beloved pop culture characters. The series, titled Distroy, g...
An algorithm that assesses the quality of Wikipedia articles could reassure visitors and help focus editors on entries that need improving, according to the computer scientists who developed it. The result is many high-quality articles on a huge rang...
The old adage of "think before you speak" is never truer than when you're on a job interview. One unwitting slip-up could cost you your dream position, so it's crucial to know what kinds of questions and answers will set off a red flag for your inter...
Groupon has overhauled the look and functionality of its website for the first time since it launched in November 2008.
We've tackled the question of native apps vs. mobile websites, but comparing native and hybrid apps leads to a whole other discussion. In our latest Ask a Dev video, iOS engineer Eric Miller explains the advantages of creating a completely native iOS...
Remember the strange Google-owned barge parked just off Treasure Island, matched by a counterpart in Portland, Maine? The one CNET uncovered last Friday, and suggested might be Google's patented floating data center? The mystery that made it as far a...
Six students at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom won a video game design competition called "Off the Map" earlier this month with their 3D, digital recreation of London in the years just before the city's Great Fire. University teams that...
Juno and Up in the Air director Jason Reitman has a new casting director: Twitter. The Oscar-nominated director tweeted that he's looking for a teenage actor for his upcoming film Men, Women & Children, an adaptation of the Chad Kultgen novel about t...
Business to business (B2B) marketers are utilizing content marketing strategies more and more in the digital age to promote their brands. They're becoming confident in creating content supported by the brand, such as magazines, books, articles, how-t...
Apple's iPad Air is now available for purchase in the U.S. and other countries, including Australia, China, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Japan. You can get the iPad Air from Apple's online store, or pick it up yourself in an Apple Store, starting 8...
Are you member of "Generation Procrastination"? If your savings account and retirement plan are gathering virtual cobwebs, you probably are. A recent retirement study by Scottrade suggests that Gen Y is getting way behind on its savings. The recessio...
It's getting close to lunch time. You forgot to pack something and have $0.37 in your bank account. Sound familiar? Your eyes go to the employee fridge and your stomach gives a little growl... Stop right there. Don't do it. Nope, put that brown bag d...
The gadget-disassembling crew from iFixit has gotten its paws on Apple's new iPad Air, and they have some bad news for do-it-yourself repairmen: it's very, very hard to open and repair. The iPad Air is much thinner and lighter than the 4th-gen iPad, ...
The creators of a new clothing line featuring underwear and running shorts aim to help women feel safer on the streets. AR Wear has been working on a anti-rape garments that women can wear discreetly, underneath their normal clothing. The idea is tha...
Nonstop candy munching is arguably the greatest part of Halloween. But what will you do with your candy rejects? You know -- that one candy you dislike that will sit in the bowl until you finally throw it away in January. This Halloween, don't throw ...
Life is hard -- like, really hard. Every day is a new opportunity for everything in your life to go wrong. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't still wear a smile on your face! Take a look at these simple steps to putting on a brave face and taking al...
The total prize money up for grabs at next week's Launch hackathon is $1.6 million. Yes, you heard that right. The three-day event runs from Nov. 8 to Nov. 10 in San Francisco, Calif., with $800,000 going to the top two finalists. Launch is the brain...
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple’s iPad Air is now available for purchase o...
NASA will send 14 groups of students and their experiments on a plane that NASA uses to train some of its astronauts for missions in space. The plane will climb to low gravity before diving back toward Earth so quickly that the weight of everything o...
Facebook is offering free access to Philippine smartphone users, effective October 31. The launch marks the first time Facebook has granted Asian smartphone users full access to the network without data charges. Subscribers will be able to access and...
NYC artist Richard Renaldi's newest project asks strangers to pose in intimate embraces. The project's book comes out in April.
Google's first ad for the new Nexus 5 smartphone will tug on your heartstrings.
Netflix, the undisputed king of full-season TV binge-viewing, is now preparing for battle with networks, along with cable and satellite providers, on a new front: in-season binge-watching. Currently, viewers can easily watch previous full-seasons of ...
Edward Snowden expressed his support for a German investigation into NSA surveillance in a letter delivered the German government on Friday. Outraged by recent allegations that the NSA might have tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, German lawmak...
Bradford Shellhammer, cofounder and chief designer of Fab.com, is leaving the company after just more than four years.
A day in the life of New York City subway conductor requires much carefully planned repetition -- stop, go, make an announcement, repeat. Part of a conductor's daily routine includes pointing at a black-and-white sign positioned at the center of ever...
