When You're Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters

You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that she's an imposter. More »
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Evolution in the Balloon Animal Kingdom

People have been twisting balloons into squeaky little animals for decades, but Willy Chyr's work marks an evolution in the craft. Instead of dogs and bunnies, he makes gigantic, science-inspired sculptures of jellyfish, neurons, and zooids. Huh? More »

NYPD's Computers Are Certain That This 82-Year-Old Woman Is a Dangerous Criminal

Rose Martin has been questioned by police some 50 times in eight years, stemming from her involvement in crimes ranging from robbery to murder. Of course, she's not actually involved, but the NYPD's computers continue to think otherwise. More »
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MoviePeg iPhone Stand Keeps It Simple, Stupid

There are plenty of good reasons you might want to prop up your iPhone. Say you're using it as an alarm clock. Or (sorry David Lynch) watching a video. MoviePeg, without being cutesy or funny or DIY-y, just does it. More »

Xbox 360 Coffin Is the Only Suitable Resting Place For Your Red-Ringed Console

To serious gamers, the thought of just trashing a console—even if it's an Xbox 360 that's been claimed by the red ring of death—is just downright disrespectful. This coffin lets it rest in video game peace. More »

Nokia Crowdsources All That Boring "Design" Business

You know what? Nokia's just about had it with you guys complaining about the design of their devices. "Let's see you do better," the company says. "No, really, use this panel of sliders and buttons to design your dream phone." More »

The Department of Defense Covertly Dismantled a Terrorist Message Board...Created By the CIA

An incident from 2008, brought to light recently by the Washington Post, reveals just how discombobulated our nation's cybersecurity efforts actually are. A terrorist-tracking forum, created by the CIA and Saudi government, was shut down by the National Security Agency. More »

The 20 Cell Phones That Leak the Most Radiation

Cell phone radiation. Some consider it a heath-hazard of paramount importance. Others couldn't care less. Whichever camp you're in, there's some perverse satisfaction in clicking through CNET's countdown to see which is the most mind-melting gadget on the market. [CNET] More »

Watch a Neuron Go Bad

Just like hard drive sectors can fail, neurons can go bad as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, essentially becoming a bad sector. More »
In today's Remainders: the next step. For John Grisham, it's ebooks. For the television-viewing public, it's viewing television while surfing the web. For Google, it's controlling the internet. And for NVIDIA, it's releasing GeForce drivers that don't melt your rig. More »
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A Google TV Set-Top Box is Coming

We knew vaguely that Google was looking toward the living room, but the NYTimes has the details on Google TV, an ambitious platform to deliver web content to Android-based set-top boxes and TVs through partnerships with Sony, Intel, and Logitech. More »

Scientists Successfully Embed Silicon Chips Inside Human Cells

Scientists have already created mini-cyborgs out of living cells and semiconductor materials, but now biological cells can also contain tiny silicon chips, which could become sensors that monitor microscopic activities, deliver drugs to target cells or even repair cell structures. More »

Nexus One Coming To Sprint, Too

Perhaps spurred on by yesterday's flurry of Google phone activity, Sprint confirmed that the Nexus One will be coming to its network, though the price and date are yet to be announced. More »

Seagate ST-506: The Daddy of Modern Hard Drives

The first hard drive, from 1956, was housed in a computer the size of two refrigerators. But in less than a quarter of the century, engineers shrunk hard drives to 5.25". The first, holding 5MB, was Seagate's ST-506. More »
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How Google Crunches All That Data

If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything. Here are some of the ways it stays sharp. More »
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Former Air Force General Talks Art of War In Outer Space

Space has long been considered humanity's final frontier. But for retired Air Force General Lester Lyles, it's just the final front. When it comes to observing the enemy, he explained recently, the farther out we are the better. More »
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