The food must really be bad ... oh WAIT ... chest explosion. Known as the "chestbuster" moment, the iconic scene in Ridley Scott's science-fiction flick Alien from 1979 has reached a new generation.
The young guns of Kids Swede Movies reenact the scene in which Ex...
When it launches this fall, upgrading to Windows 8 Pro will cost just $39.99. This aggressive pricing isn't limited to recent Windows owners -- it will be available for PC owners who are currently running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.
Downloadable from ...
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox web browser, is planning a completely open mobile operating system, and today it revealed its official name: Firefox OS.
The first Firefox OS devices are expected in 2013, and Mozilla has already lined up some extensive supp...
With a simple three-word tweet, actor Alec Baldwin left Twitter on Monday morning: "It's been fun," he posted.
The departure comes just two days after he and fiance Hilaria Thomas wed.
His 13-character farewell appeared briefly before he deactivated his accoun...
It's fun to imagine what life would be like with Google Glass over our eyes: How differently our environments would appear when perpetually augmented by a digital overlay, how seamlessly we would be able to receive, modify and transmit information without pulling out...
Days after U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh banned the sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the U.S. due to a patent dispute with Apple, Samsung has appealed the verdict.
Samsung's main point in the appeal is that sales of the Android Jelly Bean-based ...
Wish you could turn any TV into a smart one? A new gadget called the Pocket TV will convert your television into a giant Android tablet.
The device is a small microcomputer that plugs into your screen's HDMI sport. Pocket TV runs on Android 4.0 and allows you to d...
After an extra second was added to the clock on Saturday to better align it with the Earth's rotation schedule, a whole slew of websites from LinkedIn, Foursquare and Reddit to Mozlila, Yelp and Gawker sites experienced technical issues.
Known as a "leap second," ...
This, Android fans, is the tablet you've been waiting for. Google's Nexus 7 finally nails it for Android tablets. It has an inviting design, excellent software, and the right components inside to keep it all running. Even better, it has the right price: $199, and tha...
Google is calling the Nexus Q the “world’s first social media streamer.” When connected to your TV, this $299 ball can be used to stream tunes and videos from your favorite (Gingerbread or higher) Android device.
If you have Android-toting friends over, you can a...
The cities of Buffalo, N.Y.; Manchester, N.H.; and McAllen, Texas, have all proclaimed June 30 as Social Media Day. This brings the count to 17 cities and three U.S. states that are celebrating Social Media Day under an official proclamation.
The Buffalo Social...
We all know that a young Dora the Explorer from the popular Nickelodeon show is a crime-fighting machine especially when Swiper the Fox's sticky fingers are at work. (What criminal wouldn't fear those haunting, taunting words, "Swiper, no swiping!"?)
But when Col...
Popular mobile photo-sharing service Instagram is still down this morning after violent storms in Virginia knocked out the cloud computing services that run it.
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, which powers sites like Netflix and Pinterest, and SocialFlow, as well...
With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google is taking a shot at iPhone digital assistant Siri.
The next-generation Android OS, announced this week at Google I/O, offers the ability to search for and find information about anything you can imagine by simply asking.
Usi...
And thus ends the tale of Flash on mobile browsers: Adobe has announced it will not support Flash Player browser plugin for Android 4.1 and onward.
"There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1," writes Adobe on its official blog, ad...
Love or hate Apple products, there's no denying the iPhone's indelible mark on technology, culture and business. Five years ago, the first iteration was unleashed on throngs of early adopters, who ogled its touchscreen interface and poked at little icons. Today, the ...
Canadian tech giant Research in Motion, the beleaguered maker of BlackBerry phones and tablets, suffered what was arguably its worst hit yet Thursday.
The company revealed that its share of the global smartphone market had dropped by half in the first quarter. As...
Everyone knows you should have a lifejacket handy when you're out on a boat. We've even seen instances of people putting them on their dogs just in case. But what about protecting your iPhone from an accidental tumble overboard? LifeProof, maker of the sturdy cases t...
Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on NBC's Parks and Recreation, appeared on Conan this week for the return of a hilarious segment in which he reads the tweets of Hollywood's young female celebrities.
The video is set in Offerman's workshop, where he dons carp...
After days of media speculation that Today show co-host Ann Curry would be stepping down from her role, the journalist announced in an emotional goodbye that Thursday would be her last day.
Rumors began circulating late last week that Curry was offered a $10 mill...
