It's a good thing Jeremy Liew met Barack Obama...

Xbox One really is [censored] listening to you. With new technology, the video game system is punishing those who let the expletives fly while button-mashing.

You either need to be really rich, really idealistic, or really crazy to invest in Bitcoin

What is it that brings us back here? What drives us to go faster, push harder and brake later? Just to lap the Nordschleife in under 7 minutes....

2014 Fifa World Cup: Fixtures for the tournament in Brazil

The Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing.

Blinking, beeping, auto-playing. Popping up, over, under. Tracking, intruding, unsettling. If the internet was a pretty face, advertising would be its wart. Thankfully, if getting "a great six pack in weeks!" isn't your thing, you can simply flick a switch and use an adblocker - software that banishes the sight and hushes the din of irritating advertising all over the web.

As tablets and smartphones continue to grow in market dominance, PC sales are predicted to plummet further still.

The Oregon Zoo's elephant calf Lily turned one recently, and what a difference a year makes.

Back in the nineties, a team of visionaries...

Valve has joined the Linux Foundation, making Steam Machine prototypes looking more and more like serious competition for Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4.

Amazon's secret R&D project aimed at delivering packages to your doorstep by "octocopter" mini-drones with a mere 30-minute delivery time; then, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon remembers his 1999 interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

This is a real picture of the infamous pizzas that were bought for 10,000 BTC back in May of 2010.

A short comic.

Unraveling the ever-changing World Wide Web to find the very best websites can be a daunting and time consuming task. Or, you could just ask Reddit.

Inquiring minds want to know! :)

Computing technique reconstructs 3D images from single photons reflected from dimly lit object.

Rob Robbins and Steve Rupp have been diving under the Antarctic sea ice for a combined 60 years. Hang around their dive headquarters at McMurdo Station and you’ll see rows of oxygen tanks, wetsuits, and breathing apparatus.

It's estimated that one in eight people worldwide live in so-called slums, which, in some cities, makes visiting these informally maintained neighborhoods unavoidable. Although controversial, the practice of "slum tourism" has become a popular way for tourists to engage with poverty on a personal level. But why go visit an actual slum when you can simply stay at a luxury resort that looks like a slum?

When George Loegering saw a large spinning circle of ice in the Sheyenne River while out hunting with relatives, the retired engineer couldn't believe his eyes.

YouTube pre-roll ads are driving users to install adblocking software, which in turn is having devastating effects on independent publishers. Google, who last year earned 97% of their revenue from online advertising (over $32 billion) has a product that drives people to block ads. Crazy, right? While Google may be able to reduce the impact of adblocking, many smaller publishers shut down or set up premium subscriptions to make up for lost ad revenue.

Swarm's data should help scientists understand better how the field is generated, and why it appears to be weakening.

Yes, Apple maintains a press "blacklist," a list of people in the media who are shunned and ignored -- "punished," as it were, for "disloyalty." "Blacklist

Every two years, the automotive world descends on Tokyo to present its vision for the vehicles we'll be driving in years to come. 2013 is the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show, and a host of carmakers from around the world such as BMW, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz joined the likes of Honda, Toyota, and Nissan on their home turf.

Here is what my oldest daughter Josie Taylor Wells And I experienced, I am so glad Kerry Gorman Wells and the other girls were out of town when this storm came through. Very thankful we were not injured.

Wikipedia has named and shamed a Texas-based public relations company following an investigation into spin doctors and "sock puppets" falsely manipulating entries on the site.

Old rivals Google and Microsoft are at it again, this time squabbling over a few pieces of clothing and a coffee mug.

With no bosses or titles, this gaming company has a radically democratic vision for the future of entertainment.

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation aimed at reining in abusive patent litigation. But one of the bill's most important provisions, designed to make it easier to nix low-quality software patents, will be left on the cutting room floor. That provision was the victim of an aggressive lobbying campaign by patent-rich software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.

Linguists are recognizing the delightful evolution of the word "because."