Blake J. Harris' book Console Wars, out tomorrow, takes readers behind enemy lines to meet the men and women who created the exciting and exceptionally bitter rivalry between Sega and Nintendo. Below is an excerpt from the book, which details a ...

Davide Vannoni is playing with people's lives, and the Italian government is paying for it

Electronic cigarettes, promoted as a healthier alternative to tobacco, are getting powerful new backers with an unhealthy reputation: big tobacco companies. The development points to ways Big Tobacco is moving to turn the young e-cigarette market to ...

In methamphetamine's seedy underworld, traffickers are disguising the drug as a liquid to smuggle it into the United States from Mexico. Dissolved in a solution, it's sealed in tequila bottles or plastic detergent containers to fool border ...

Police are still searching for a suspect in an early morning home invasion in Tempe that was witnessed by online gamers all over the world. According to Sgt. Steve Carbajal of the Tempe Police Department, two men broke into an apartment in the area n ...

There are two things you always have with you: a credit card and a smartphone. The day is coming when we combine them.

The federal government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country, a move that collects information even on the most mundane of protests by Canadians.

In 2012 a device called PirateBox excited users with the prospect of anonymous wireless file-sharing anywhere, no Internet required, and at a cost of just a few dollars. Now the project has released PirateBox 1.0 and a brand new website. TorrentFreak ...

Brazil has spent more than $11 billion on the event, which kicks off June 12, but Ronaldo says less than a third of the non-stadium facilities are ready. Retired Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo had harsh words Friday for Brazil’s chaos-plagued prepara ...

"True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto has revealed the first hints about what the second season of the cult hit HBO show will look like. The writer-producer spoke to public radio program "To the Best of Our Knowledge" about the ...

If you've ever wondered what you're most likely to die from at any given time, check out this data visualization posted to Reddit by UCanDoEat. The 2010 data is from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (check out their website f ...

Will a Twitter disaster finally be enough to make net neutrality an issue TV can care about?

Venezuela said on Tuesday it would start crushing abandoned cars and bicycles to provide raw materials for housing construction and supplement drastically reduced amounts of local steel. "We have sent 10,485 automobiles, 9,651 motorbikes and 539 ...

NASA has launched a livestream from the International Space Station. Four HD cameras attached to the ISS are now providing an around-the-clock perspective of Earth, including audio conversations between the crew and Mission Control. You can watch it ...

In the last week of March, the top-rated show in the country was “NCIS.” An hour-long crime drama, the series features actor Pauley Perrette, whose portrayal of fictional forensic scientist Abby Sciuto has made her the single most popular performer i ...

The records of the Old Bailey, London’s central criminal court, tell the tale of one John Randal, who was tried on Sept. 9, 1674. He was charged “with two Indictments, one for Fellony for stealing several pieces of Plate, and other Goods…, and the ot ...

There's a tiny but critical collection of neurons in your brain that tells you what to do and when to do it. It's only the size of a mustard seed, but the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, regulates when you eat, when you sleep, when you fee ...

A technique called chemical vapor deposition can produce diamonds, created from gases, that are virtually indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Credit

The air had turned crisp and cool in North Texas, a welcome reprieve from months of oppressive heat that earned the summer of 2011 the distinction of being the hottest on record. Freshly fallen leaves speckled the quiet streets of Fort Worth and the ...

A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.