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Apple’s Beautiful New Spaceship-Like Campus

9:50AM August 14, 2011 | Kwame Opam

We’re all quite familiar with how beautiful the proposed new Apple campus is supposed to look. Well, today Cupertino released new renders of the facility. And they look mighty stunning. Like, I kind of wanna live in these images, stunning. More »

Online

MobileMe Users Get 25GB Free iCloud Storage Until June 2012

8:00AM August 8, 2011 | Jack Loftus

There are all sorts of goodies coming out of the iCloud developer build that arrived this weekend, the first being news that MobileMe customers transitioning to the service will receive 25GB of storage space once the service launches. More »

Science

China Selling Cannibal Pills Filled With Dead Baby Powder?

9:40AM August 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle

A South Korean TV station brings us this delightful report: Chinese pharmaceutical companies buying baby corpses from hospitals, grinding them into pills, and then selling them as stamina boosters. Feel free to gag uncontrollably now and then keep reading. More »

Online

How To Instant Message And Not Waste Time Or Be A Jerk

3:00AM August 6, 2011 | Mat Honan

You’re working. A chat window pops open. It’s your mum. “How are you today?” Another window fires; your roommate. “Bro, check this video!” Oh, here’s one from your boss, he wants to know if you’ve seen his pen. Goodbye, productivity. More »

Mobile

The Next Windows Phone: It’s Pretty Great

2:01PM June 21, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Pleasant. That doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment, or a benchmark or like, impressive. But the truth is, most technology isn’t pleasant. The new Windows Phone is. Very much so. More »

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The Best Notebooks Of The Year So Far

3:00AM June 18, 2011 | Laptop Mag

To find out the best laptops of 2011 so far, we checked in with Mark Spoonauer who, as editor-in-chief of Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, oversees 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year. If you’re buying soon, buy one of these. More »

Software

10 Android Apps That Make Rooting Your Phone Worth The Hassle

2:30AM May 28, 2011 | Matthew Rogers

Android phones are spectacular little devices because they’re able to do so much that others simply can’t, but one big snag in that greatness is that many of the best features require that the phones be rooted. With all the apps available in the Android Market, the most essential tend to be those that add these extra features. Whether you plan on installing custom ROMs or not, you may want to root your phone just to install those apps. Here are the 10 most essential apps available for Android that require root. More »

Online

What Is BitCoin?

1:00AM May 20, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Maybe you’ve heard of BitCoin—it wants to shake the entire global economy. And some people think it might! It’s online money—an alternative to dollars and euros. Well what’s that mean? It’s complicated, but we break it down. More »

Science

SpaceShipTwo Returning To Earth Looks Just Awesome

3:00AM May 19, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Virgin Atlantic has tested the return capabilities of their SpaceShipTwo spacecraft for the first time. The video of its first feathered flight is just too beautiful and elegant too describe. Just watch it: More »

Entertainment

How To Make Your Entire Home AirPlay-Compatible

2:20AM May 19, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Apple’s media-streaming technology, AirPlay, is a great way to stream devices across your home, but it only works on Apple-approved destinations out of the box. Here’s how to make your entire home AirPlay-compatible, so that whether you’re using Windows or Mac, Android or iOS, XBMC or another media centre, you can stream media seamlessly between each. More »