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Microsoft has revealed that it has made some big changes to its desktop UI for Windows 8, which includes moving away from Aero Glass — the UI first introduced with Vista. According to the company, this means visual changes t...

Motorola has updated its timeline for Ice Cream Sandwich updates for a number of devices, several of which should see Android 4.0 within the next few months. In the US, both the Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx are expected to receive ICS...

Matt Pearce likes two things — Apple and making videos. And so his YouTube channel is filled with all sorts of goodies for fans of the platform, ranging from tips and tricks to looks at the classics. You can watch how Adobe ......

Toyota has unveiled a new tool for Japan that lets passengers use a Nintendo DS to control a vehicle's navigation system. Called Kuruma de DS, the tool was recently shown off at a press conference in Tokyo, and it's expected to la...

Norman Bel Geddes' Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair is still remembered thanks largely to its sheer scope — it took visitors on a journey through a vision of the future circa 1960, and spanned 35,738 square...

With a little help from Microsoft, a seven-person team in Russia is building a new technology to try and prevent users from downloading copyrighted materials from file-sharing sites. Called Pirate Pay, the company conducted a tria...

Two years ago Diaspora gained a lot of traction with its plan to create an open-source social network that would let users own their data, though to date the service still hasn't actually launched to the public — but that co...

SpaceX has announced a new partnership that could eventually see the company's Dragon spacecraft used to ferry passengers to habitats orbiting the planet. Once they arrive, customers would be set-up in an expandable habitat called...

ISIS has announced that its Mobile Wallet platform will support three different American Express cards when it eventually launches later in the year. The credit card company originally teamed up with ISIS last July — alongsi...

Earlier this week researchers from the University of California, Berkeley took to the Sacramento River to deploy a fleet of 100 robotic mobile sensors to gather real-time data about the river. The Floating Sensor Project, as it's...

Plenty of anime fans have longed for the chance to ride in a mech of their own, and now a Japanese firm is trying to make that dream come true with Vaudeville — a giant robot that you can control with Kinect or...

HP's Envy line of laptops has regularly been compared to Apple's MacBooks in terms of style and design, and when it comes to the Envy Spectre XT the company addressed the issue by saying that the device looks the way it does "not...