If you haven't heard already, Las Vegas is a dangerous place. And not just because you can lose your life savings and contract something from a prosty in the same weekend, but that shit happened to a couple of ...

Jamie noticed a rumor making the rounds- Microsoft buying Second Life. Nobody is confirming or denying anything, much less announcing anything sounding like a price. Or a reason why this makes any sense to anyone. Read more of this story ...

Anonymusing writes "Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think to, and it's making its own widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for free. As noted on its blog: "There ...

Canonical is preparing to augment its Ubuntu One cloud synchronization service with a new music streaming feature that will enable users to stream songs ...

(Post by nerdbastards contributor Nick Bungay- Twitter @NickBungay) How’s it going nerdbastards, it’s Friday and it’s that special time of the week. That time where every nerd gets his hands off the controller and his eyes on a set of costumes. Where being dressed ...

Sure, going after file-swappers has the potential to be hugely lucrative, but there are problems. Problem number one: someone needs to write all of ...

Between this and that last clip, I can really see Michael Bay's vision for the movie coming together. And seriously, whoever they got to do the script is so much more talented than whoever did RotF; the continuity is on ...

I know it looks Photoshopped to high hell, but this is an actual photograph of a plane trying its damnedest to eclipse the moon. It reminds me of the scene in the original Batman when the Batwing eclipses the ...

Orome1 writes "Infection via email, traditionally the most popular vector for spreading malware, has declined in favor of greater use of social media. These include clickjacking attacks using the Facebook "Like" button, fake Web pages positioned on search engines (BlackHat ...

An anonymous reader writes "An international team of researchers, including a number from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill schools of medicine and public health, have discovered hundreds of genes that influence human height. Their findings confirm that ...

With all the talk of leaner, simpler cores in the datacenter, and the rumblings about ARM chips going into cloud servers, you'd think that ...

​I told you guys about a month ago that the One Piece manga in Japan was going on break for a month, and during that month two years would pass in the manga. Well, the month is over and One ...

Just after the news broke about Christopher Nolan wanting Darren Aronofsky to direct the new Superman reboot, a story (which broke on newsarama) is making it’s way across the interwebs that says he’s also up for the directors chair on ...

Mario is one of the most recognizable characters from a videogame ever. And his signature style – red hat, red shirt, and blue overalls with yellow buttons has not changed in the last 20 years. But, if you look back at ...

Memba a few months back when there was talks of moving San Diego Comic Con, the mecca for nerd media from it’s home in San Diego to Anaheim, CA or Las Vegas NV? If you’re a little out of the ...

“Here come the Men In Black”… in 3D??  Sources report that Emma Thompson (I Am Legend, Harry Potter) will be starring as the role of “Oh”, head agent in Men In Black 3D.  Thompson will be joining Will Smith as ...

Videogame trailers are a bit of a lost art form. They used to be suspenseful, dramatic, comedic, etc… Now, most (but not all, there are some exceptions out there) game trailer use shock, awe, and pretty graphics to sell you on ...

I'm a big fan of instant messaging apps. They're fun and easy—plus, like Google Voice, they're sometimes a money-saving alternative to texting via your ...

cgriffin21 writes "Facebook and Skype are reportedly in talks over a deal that would integrate Skype calling capabilities into Facebook user accounts. Such an agreement would give both Skype and Facebook not only a leg up on rival VoIP and ...

Solar power is one of the leading technologies to produce clean, renewable energy, but photovoltaic solar cells remain uneconomical in many areas. The key ...

An anonymous reader writes "While the Senate is still debating a bill that would force registrars and ISPs to block access to sites deemed "infringing," it appears that the White House's IP Czar is already holding meetings with ISPs, registrars ...

​• When I said a tennis shirt, I literally meant a tennis shirt. This Adidas tee will set you back $40, which is expensive, but it does have Yoda on the front serving to a sweatband-wearing Vader on the back, ...

Law enforcement agencies say that over 60 people have been charged with trying to siphon millions of dollars out of banks by using ...

Remember high school chemistry? Beakers, test tubes, Bunsen burners...aqueous solution dilutions? Alright, so maybe the recall isn’t as strong on the last one. Hypothetically speaking, our product teams have never left that lab. They’ve been hard at work, testing away ...

Note: Higher-res shot HERE. What do you do if you grew up during the Great Depression and were always too poor to own a Radio Flyer? Wait till you're like a hundred and then build one out of a truck! ...

iPad owners are a different breed from those who own other portable devices and e-book readers, according to a new survey by Nielsen. Nielsen's ...

Haha, who just shaved their dog's genitals and gave him a bath in-between posts? This guy! Taking a clue from the guy who built a fully functional calculator in Little Big Planet, Youtube user theinternetftw is in the ...

eldavojohn writes "After developing and using TaintDroid, several universities found that of 30 popular free Android apps, half were sharing GPS data and phone numbers with advertisers and remote servers. A few months ago, one app was sending phone numbers ...

astroengine writes "Buoyed by plans for commercial space taxis, a Russian company plans to build and launch a privately owned outpost in orbit for tourists, scientists and other paying visitors. RSC Energia, which designed and built the Russian modules of ...

Microsoft has begun the testing phase of the fall dashboard update for the Xbox 360, and it brings with it many updates and additions ...

The first new transatlantic fiber-optic cable in a decade will cater to high-frequency financial traders whose algorithmic trading strategies and ...

Note: Jump probably NSFW due to fake alien-vaj. To coincide with the release of Hustler's Avatar pr0n parody, Fleshlight is making an "alien" version of their famous male sex-toy. "Honey -- I think the blue flashlight in the tool chest ...

Yesterday, NASA and the NSF announced the detection of what may be the first Earth-like planet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, meaning that ...

Yesterday I disparaged Nintendo's 3DS and it's Nintendo-business-as-usual line-up. Some Nintendo fans totally lost their shit, because for some reason, people still feel the need to defend videogame consoles like they're family members. I don't understand why consoles garner that ...

An anonymous reader writes "There is interesting new research coming out of MIT, which suggests that current operating systems are struggling with the addition of more cores to the CPU. It appears that the problem, that affect the available memory ...