Bing's trying all it can to differentiate itself from Google and carve out a decent chunk of the search market. One of their initiatives has been fancy backgrounds, which Google can do too of course, but now they've taken it one stage further.
One thing that the Japanese have over us? Sushi. Oh, and ramen. Oh and Japanese curry. Oh and their entire cuisine. And their style. Damn, Japan is a pretty awesome country. Fotopedia Japan takes you on a photography tour of the super tasteful country.
If you were planning on buying a cut-price Samsung Galaxy Tab; HP TouchPad; Nokia Lumia 800 or HTC Flyer anytime soon, check out the BBC's tech reporter Rory Cellan-Jones's charity eBay auction. All the money's going to BBC Children In Need, and while some of the 19 gadgets have been used before, it's only because they've been used on air. Meaning, they're famous! Kind of. [eBay]
Iodine-131 is a dangerous radioactive isotope. It can clog up your thyroid gland and contaminate food. It's been a big problem in Japan (for obvious reasons), but now it's been scarily detected throughout Europe. And nobody knows the source.
Somebody in Hungary thought that designing high voltage towers in a shape that vaguely resembles a clown is a good idea. As if high voltage towers and their potential cancer-inducing powers weren't terrifying enough. Somebody needs to get fired.
Have you ever wondered what the visuals look like on hallucinogens? This isn't far off (um, I've "read|"). This is not an animated gif, and nothing is actually moving. It's all in your head. Your trippy, trippy head.
There's no two ways around it: Photographers are a rebellious breed of inventors, tinkerers, and ad-hoc engineers. Or rather, they used to be. Being able to buy just about anything you could possibly need off-the-shelf is a relatively new development in photography. But just because you can spend your hard-earned money buying nearly everything your heart desires, it doesn't mean that you should...
Let’s face it, home Wi-Fi isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You can get all sorts of interference from nearby devices and we’re still not entirely sure that we won’t all have golf ball-sized tumours from it in a few years.
It's not all about threatening to tow people's cars away at the DVLA. They do have time for some fun, with the national numberplate registrar regularly adding rude or offensive number and letter combinations to its banned list.
Looks like that risqué Justin Bieber image your friend posted, wasn't really their handy work. A 'virus' has been wrecking havoc on Facebook, posting porn, photoshopped celebrities, violent and abusive pictures, all through a browser vulnerability.
Are you the type who likes to get sozzled and ride public transportation home late at night? Congratulations, you are a gadget thief's favorite target! The NYPost reports that New York's police department is training a new squadron of drunk-impersonators to bust them.
Sony, Samsung, Panasonic and 3D technology specialist Xpand 3D are moving forward quickly with plans to create a single format for active shutter 3D glasses, with many more TV makers joining the standards licensing scheme.
A survey that cobbled together the results of around two million broadband speed tests has found that, on average, our connection speeds drop by over a third during the peak evening Twitter/Facebook period.
This isn't the teeth of a machine; the chainmail shirt your cousin uses for larping, or the DNA sequence of Justin Bieber's love child.
The H1N1 flu pandemic killed 17,000 people across the globe between 2009 and 2010. Pretty terrifying. To prevent that from ever happening again, scientists have created a super-detailed computer model of the killer virus.
Chalk this one up as rumour, but Engadget's been sent a render of a new HTC handset codenamed 'Zeta'. The monster device is supposedly packing a beast of a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU besting the previously rumoured quad-core Edge.
