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Kickstarter Roundup: Pebbles, Bike Lights, & Transgender Youth In Puerto Rico 2

By Jon Christian April 13, 2012

Kickstarter is the go-to if you want to crowdsource funding for a ridiculous gadget, an album of ambient new-age electronica, a video game that hasn't been written yet, or a genre-pushing documentary film. Sometimes it separates the wheat from the chaff; other times, less so. Here are some...

Anonymous Homes In On Facebook, IBM, Intel And AT&T To Protest CISPA For #OpDefense 3

By Jason Rowley April 13, 2012

[youtube id="45FoVOs42fU" width="600" height="350"] The amorphous Anonymous hacktivist group has...

Twitter Shutters @FAME For Violating “The Spirit” Of Its ToS Agreement 4

By Jason Rowley April 13, 2012

Fame's fifteen minutes of, well, fame are up. One of the most intriguing social experiments on...

Robogeddon Won’t Be James Cameron’s First Foray Into Robotics 5

By Jon Christian April 13, 2012

Director James Cameron is expected to team up with reality television producer Mark Burnett to...

Canadian Mint Issues Digital Currency Challenge 6

By Corey Cummings April 13, 2012

This month, The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a challenge to software developers to help create...

Why I Supported Pebble, The Hackable Watch Which Raised Almost $1 Million On Kickstarter On Day One 7

By Jason Rowley April 13, 2012

Who'd've thought that in 2012, when we're all glued to our iPhones and Droids, our iPads and...

Encrypt Facebook, Twitter, Gmail With Innovative Extension Priv.ly 8

By Jon Christian April 13, 2012

Web giants like Facebook, Google, and Twitter give you a choice, say the developers working on...

Instagram’s Success Explained Through Instagram [GIF] 9

By Techli Team April 12, 2012

In only two years, Instagram went from a simple photo-sharing application to a...

Skyrim Kinect Update Lets You Shout People Over Cliffs 10

By Corey Cummings April 12, 2012

[youtube id="5aKZHJZfUGs" width="600" height="350"] Bethesda has already been good about...

GameStop Settles Used Game Lawsuit In California 11

By Corey Cummings April 12, 2012

After the settlement of a class-action lawsuit GameStop stores across California now have to...

NASA Preps Launch Of Deep Space Atomic Clock 12

By Corey Cummings April 12, 2012

NASA will soon launch a Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), which will help spacecraft better orient...

Apple Now Worth More Than Many Countries 13

By Techli Team April 12, 2012

If you were a trillionare and you could choose to buy Apple or an entire country, which one would...

A Neat Little Hack Lets You See Who You Interact With Most On Facebook 14

By Jason Rowley April 12, 2012

We all have a vague idea of who we interact with most on Facebook. For most of us, it's our best...

Vic Gundrota: Google+ Redesign Is Simpler, More Beautiful 15

By Jon Christian April 12, 2012

Google+ rolled out a host of design changes this week, with more planned for the near future. The...