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Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. You think you had a tough time with your Black Friday shopping this year? Well, imagine if you were trying to track down some non-alcoholic whiskey or a Ron Paul workout video. That was the task tha...

Google is talking to major retailers about a new plan to undermine Amazon by giving consumers who shop on the web an option to receive their orders within 24 hours for a low fee, according to a report. Google has pitched the idea to Macy’s, Gap and OfficeMax, among others, according to The ...

NORAD’s Santa Tracker is back, allowing users to follow Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve across Google Maps, Google Earth and various social media channels (including for the first time Google+). This year also sees the introduction of iOS and Android apps for tracking Saint...

Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed in millions of smartphones all over the world, is gathering a lot of info about your activity – possibly even recording keystrokes, content of SMS messages and more – and sending it to a third party. It’s present on nearly all Android dev...

Emerging from its post-IPO quiet period on Wednesday, Groupon trumpeted holiday sales success and expressed defiance at a flurry of recent negative press coverage as its stock continued a partial comeback Thursday from last week’s steep decline. The daily deals site reported in a blog post...

A simple Siri hack essentially allows users to control their vehicles with their voices. Using the Viper Control plugin and Siri Proxy, Brandon Fiquett uploaded a video on YouTube demonstrating the capabilities of Apple’s voice-activated technology when it’s been connected to a Cobra r...

Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster. Strong demand for tablets will drive the growth, UK-based Juniper Research said in a report published Thursday. ...

We already knew about YouTube’s redesign, which tech-savvy readers have been enabling for the past 10 days. As of now, however, the new YouTube is available to everyone. Unlike parent company Google, which tends to roll out redesigns over a period of days, YouTube pressed the button and s...

Google+ is rolling out a feature that allows its users to make free conference calls within Hangouts. Google staffer Jarkko Oikarinen – also the inventor of Internet Relay Chat, the first-ever Internet chat function – used his Google+ page on Thursday to announce that outside phone calls can...

When the iPhone 4S arrived last month, some Sprint customers began complaining about slow or inconsistent connection speeds with their new handsets. Now, the nation’s third largest carrier hopes to clear up the issue by initiating some much-needed network “enhancements,” according to CNET. ...