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A nasty piece of malware called DNSChanger will kick thousands of Mac and PC users off the Internet on Monday, and there's a chance you could be one of them. The FBI is shutting down domains that have been affected by the DNSChanger malware, which has been circul...

Chances are, the smartphone in your pocket bears little resemblance to the cell phone you were carrying 5 years ago. That's largely because of what happened on June 29, 2007, the day the iPhone was released in North America. As I wrote on the anniversary last ye...

As promised, Google's Chrome web browser is now available for iOS. We've spent some time playing with the app -- which you can download from the App Store now -- and trying it out alongside Mobile Safari, iCab Mobile, Opera Mini and others. Understanding the...

Jerry Holkins, co-creator of popular gaming webcomic-turned-transmedia company Penny Arcade, has done a lot of writing over the last 14 years. But he says working on On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness has been "the most personal." The four-part game series --...

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, when not donning the team's famed pinstripes, is giving startup life a try with SportsYapper, an app that caters to the die-hard sports fan. SportsYapper hopes to become a global platform for sports fans, giving them a common p...

Karen Klein, the bus monitor who was verbally abused in Greece, N.Y. by the group of 12- to 15-year-olds she was supervising, is about to go on one heck of a great vacation. An Indiegogo fundraiser in her name has pulled in more than $325,000 to send her on her wa...

We’ve all done it. Your friend uploads a picture of their new puppy, and you somehow manage to leave a comment congratulating them instead on their “new pappy.” So what do you do? Until now, the only thing Facebook would let you do to correct the error was delete ...

Spotify is adding a mobile radio feature to its iOS app, available for free in the U.S. and to premium subscribers in other countries. Spotify radio will be available on the iPhone and iPad, enabling users to listen to Spotify's entire catalog, create stations ba...

Twitter updated its "expanded tweets" feature on Wednesday, allowing users to see more interactive content -- such as news stories, video galleries and audio clips -- inside tweets via a desktop or mobile browser. For example, when people expand a tweet containin...

On its YouTube channel, PBS Digital Studios has posted a fantastic remix that will delight fans of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Created in conjunction with John D. Boswell, AKA melodysheep, the remix helps perfectly capture the major lessons from Mister Roger's Ne...

Offline mapping for Android phones, Street View for nature trails and 3D Google Earth maps are all improvements coming to Google Maps in the near future. The three new features were unveiled by company executives at a press event at the company's San Francisco off...

The Leaders in Design Series is presented by Volvo. When Flipboard launched on the iPad in July 2010, it was heralded as much for its design as for the novel way it aggregated and delivered news shared across multiple online networks. Thus it was described not as ...

Amazon is making its Instant Video library available to Microsoft Xbox 360 devices, widening the pool of on-demand, streaming video content for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Console owners can now browse, rent, purchase and immediately stream some 120,000 movies an...

Flipboard wants to be the first magazine with a soundtrack. The company is releasing an update on Tuesday that integrates music-sharing service SoundCloud as well as radio programs from NPR and Public Radio International (PRI). Flipboard's app for iPhone and i...

Scott Widak and his family recently received the greatest gift anyone in their situation could receive -- a viral act of encouragement and kindness from complete strangers. Widak, 47, has Down syndrome and is terminally ill with liver disease. After frequently che...

If you thought you'd be happily browsing the web in either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on that Windows 8 tablet you're planning on buying, think again. According to Mozilla, Microsoft is planning to restrict the capabilities of third-party browsers on the tablet...