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Domain name registrations are big business. Any time a new top-level domain has debuted, prospectors and companies have lined up to snag premium names — which has driven prices up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases. That’s precisely what happened when .XXX hit the web, and now porn industry giants have […]

Throughout their history, Google seems to have made it their job to occasionally slip some fun into the often monotonous task of hunting information down online. Be it random little Easter Eggs like the Barrel Roll, or their increasingly interactive Doodles on their homepage (I am still to this day ashamed of how much time […]

The latest tablet to join the ranks of the defeated devices lying in the wake of the iPad has finally had its price cut dramatically. Selling only 200,000 units, the BlackBerry PlayBook has fallen well short of expectations, forcing the company to cut its losses and give consumers a deep discount in an effort to […]

Back in January, Microsoft used CES 2011 to unveil the next generation Surface interactive display. This time they’ve collaborated with Samsung, with the official name for the new device being the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface. I’d prefer Surface 2. The first generation Surface had bags of potential, but was so bulky it could only […]

In our side-by-side comparisons with the Kindle Fire, one of the few areas where the Nook Tablet was the better choice was in its potential as a hacked tablet. Its extra storage, additional RAM, and SD card slot made it appear to be the more appealing purchase for those wanting to root and flash ROMs. […]

Back in October, a new service appeared that seemed a little too good to be true. It was called Backify and offered a Dropbox-like cloud storage solution for just $5 per month. The killer feature was the fact you got 512GB of storage, which is way more than the popular alternatives such as Dropbox and […]

With the planet facing a global energy crisis, researchers and scientists have been working to create renewable energy sources to satisfy the power consumption demand. Clearly thinking outside the box, there is an interesting report from the International Academy of Astronautics that states that there could be a working space-based solar energy platform in just 20 […]

You already know that the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, is the time for door-busting deals in the US. What you may not know is that the week before Black Friday is the time for retailers to “accidentally” leak many of those deals in order to generate some advance buzz. Who are we to go […]

Amazon is drawing a lot of buzz with tomorrow’s launch of the economical Kindle Fire tablet. Many suggest that it will be the first rival to eat into the iPad’s overwhelming market dominance. As it turns out, Apple may be planning a new addition to the iPad line that will directly combat this new threat. […]

Although it may be hard to believe, one of the fastest creatures on two feet is the ostrich. Capable of speeds up to 37 mph, the flightless birds have amazing grace and agility as they sprint over rough terrain. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has taken notice, and has decided to borrow from nature […]