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Scott sez, "Here's a new video of me juggling fire in slow motion. 2000 frames per second. There's also a video there of me juggling and eating apples. It's pretty fun to watch. It doesn't look like I'm trying." Juggling Flaming Torches in Slow Motion (Thanks, Scott!    

Autoblog shares BMW's modern take on the iconic R90S. I would buy this right now. (Thanks, Dan Rodarte!)     

Can't wait.  White Men Wearing Google Glass When is Google Glass "weird"? Ask Google's Chairman! Google Glass demo video William Gibson tries the Google Glass Google prohibits resale, lending or sharing of Google Glass     

This is sad beyond words. A teenager lost his life defending the gift iPad his father struggled to buy him. "But Marcos wouldn't let go. He fought. As the truck sped off, the high school freshman was pulled beneath the wheels.    

Photo: Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Protesters in Guatemala and other Latin American countries gathered on Friday to denounce the Guatemalan Constitutional Court's recent decision to overturn the genocide trial and guilty verdict of Ríos Montt. About 1,500 people, mostly indigenous Maya from ...

Yahoo submitted a bid to acquire Hulu, as the Internet company tries to add more high-quality online video that can appeal to advertisers.

Syria's telecommunications providers continue to use technology by Blue Coat Systems to monitor Internet usage, according to Telecomix, a hacker-activist group that has tracked the previous use of the technology.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim says protests by an activist group in the U.S. have the trappings of an orchestrated campaign against him and his mobile phone companies and is asking California to investigate the group.

Google is deep into an effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a move that could connect a billion or more new people to the Internet.

Lenovo wants to start selling smartphones in the U.S. within a year, as the Chinese company tries to repeat the success of its personal-computer business.

Previewing search results pages before clicking on them is now available through Google on Android and iOS.

Thousands of Gmail accounts wiped last week have now been fully restored.

Employees under 25 are sending company data over webmail to bypass restrictions placed on their work email.

Here's our look at the phones and tablets that have been unveiled during the first half of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2011, despite having security software.

SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, th ...

BERLIN (AP) — An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers — a functioning 1976 model — has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000).

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It seems that the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control.

Xbox One games are installed to the console’s hard drive and registered to users’ Xbox Live accounys. It remains unclear how the system will handle used games and Microsoft has failed to address the issue. According to a report from gaming news website MCV, retailers will be allowed to charge wh ...

One of the more intriguing stories to follow in recent months has been the relationship between Samsung and several of the big-name tech companies that have relied upon it for components. Apple has made definitive moves away from Samsung and Google has shown some wariness about the company’s ove ...

Like your iPhone? What about your speed bike? With the GoRide bike mount, you can combine both -- with style. More About: Gift of the Day, Lifestyle, health and fitness, holidays 2012, iOS, iphone

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists hadn't known was there, researchers announced today. More About: NASA, space, voyager 1

The Nielsen company's latest report shows that social networking has become ubiquitous while watching TV and while using the bathroom. The report says that one-third of Twitter users in June tweeted about TV shows -- a 27% increase from five months earlier. "Twitter has become the second scr ...

More Button A More button now appears beside the Reply, Retweet, and Favorite options at the bottom of each tweet.Click here to view this gallery. Twitter has started rolling out the ability to email tweets from its website. Announced mid-Novemb ...

Your workout is not the time to disconnect from your gadgets. Keeping track of important details like steps, perspiration and blood oxygen levels can be key to figuring out the best workout for your body. There are a number of well known fitness, health and wellness gadgets on the market that ...

Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help determine whether the "home entertainment system," as Microsoft is characterizing it, becomes the category-busting, revolutionary multi-purpose l ...

Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the farm on this vision, the company looks so out of step as to almost be laughable and has built the d ...

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into the wonderful world of messaging. As Facebook Home settles into a cot at the homeless shelter, Google is revving up for an all-out assault ...

Google Buzz, the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives in and will be moved over to your Google Drive accounts in July. That's lovely.

Although 3D printing technology has existed for some time, it's only now beginning to cross over into mainstream awareness, thanks to increasingly affordable access to the printers themselves as well as attention-grabbing headlines about 3D printed guns and life-saving medical applications. Whil ...

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Deal for Tumblr Won't Move Internet Giant's Needle  —  When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up. ...

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: Yahoo's Design Chief to Depart  —  Tim Parsey, the senior vice president of user experience design at Yahoo, is leaving the company, he said in an interview Thursday.  —  Mr. Parsey said he was hired last year to help infuse a culture of d ...

Daniel Geiger / Crain's New York Business: Facebook looking to relocate in NYC, sources say  —  The social networking giant is negotiating to take 160,000 square feet at 770 Broadway in midtown south at a time when other tech firms are migrating downtown because rents have been ...

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions  —  More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000.  He passed.  Any regrets?  Not really, he said.& ...

Ken Yeung / The Next Web: More than a year after its shutdown, Google to move all Buzz posts to its Drive service on July 17  —  Google is taking the “last step” in its shutdown of its Google Buzz product.  Starting July 17, the company announced in an email tha ...

Trailrunner7 writes "Those of you who like to tinker and jailbreak Android phones should take notice of some new research conducted on Samsung Galaxy S4 Android devices shipped by AT&T and Verizon. Both devicemakers ship the Galaxy S4 smartphones with a locked-down bootloader that prevents u ...

An anonymous reader writes "In April, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced that the Nissan NV200 minivan had won a citywide competition to replace the current cab model, the Ford Crown Victoria, in a phased-in period of five years. Cab owners sued, pointing out that New York City law requires that hyb ...

davecb writes "Paul E. McKenney, one of the Linux RCU implementors, addresses the problem of synchronization using structured deferral on, what else, Mr Schrödinger's famous cat. Courtesy of deferral/procrastination, the cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. 'In this example, Sch ...

An anonymous reader sends news of a study which found that "two out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people." The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine (abstract) examined med students from many different cultural and geographical backgrounds. "The r ...

An anonymous reader writes "Twilio's Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he's learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: 'I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android. In fact, I began learni ...