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Panasonic gave its new smartphone for Europe a name on Monday. “The Eluga,” which will be the first Panasonic phone to debut outside of Japan since 2005, is set to go on sale this March. The Japanese manufacturer had announced … Continue reading →

Torrent search engine The Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK after a judge in London ruled the site breaches copyright laws. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) wants British Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to The Pirate … Continue reading →

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player ABC anchor Bill Weir of Nightline on Tuesday will take U.S. audiences inside China’s Foxconn Technology factories that have been closed off to the public for years and are the birth place of Apple products. … Continue reading →

When I imagine “the cloud” where most of my daily interactions with web services such as Facebook and Google compute, I think of a free-floating space — complete with scalloped edges — that isn’t tied to a physical location. In … Continue reading →

Watch the Burberry S/S 2012 womenswear collection show here beginning at 4 p.m. BT (11 a.m. ET). Burberry is taking its Tweetwalk to the next level. After the success of last season’s Tweetwalk — an event that caused both “#Burberry” … Continue reading →

Packages constructed of DNA dubbed “DNA origami” might one day be used to create nanorobots capable of finding and destroying cancer cells in the human body. The nanorobots mimic a cell’s receptor system in order to communicate with cells. The … Continue reading →

Are you more of an intellectual Helvetica person? Or a carefree Comic Sans type? Maybe you’d like your emails to harken back to days-of-ol’, in which case Times New Roman, Courier or Mesquite STD might be your fonts of choice. … Continue reading →

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have created a single-atom transistor using a repeatable technique — a world first. Using a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), the scientists were able to precisely manipulate hydrogen atoms around a phosphorus atom on … Continue reading →

Google is expanding its reach across social media — first with Google+, now with Leaderboard, a new feature allowing users to earn points for checking in to a location via Google Latitude. Last week, Google launched an updated version of … Continue reading →

1. Lake Tahoe This shot of Lake Tahoe by user tlapse is a beautiful capture of Sierra Nevada. Click here to view this gallery. You don’t need a passport to travel around the world — you can travel the world … Continue reading →