Fresh off the woman scoring a wooden iPad for $180 in a McDonald's parking lot, another woman spent $250 to buy a laptop in a gas station parking lot and ended up with a stack of paper wrapped in duct tape. More »
Popular Photo has gone and drummed up 28 of the best deals for photography-related gear. Cameras, lenses, flashes, bags, storage mediums, etc. If you're looking to up your photo game, here's the place to start. More »
Listening to Active Child is like drinking a cup of codeine as your shuttle docks with a gently rotating space station. It's futuristic—contracting tides of synths, and and an ethereal voice that sounds part Android. It's very serene. More »
The San Francisco Police Department has changed its tune. It now says officers did come to the home of Sergio Calderón, looking for a missing iPhone 5, but that only Apple employees went inside, according to The SF Weekly. Updated More »
It's probably just coincidence, but the fact that Apple's posted two new positions on its job board for high-level security personnel just as details emerge of an (un)reportedly lost iPhone 5 seems pretty convenient. Almost too convenient. More at 9to5Mac and iPodnn. More »
In this week's app roundup: iPhone video cameras, professionalized; Instagram, mapped on the iPad; launchers, re-imagined; warriors, eternal; PDFs, created; NFL Mobile, free; weather, beautiful-ed; browsers, dolphined; and much, much more. More »
For half a century Ray Ives has essentially lived beneath the ocean's surface as a commercial diver. He's recovered wrecks, amassed countless trinkets and forgotten undersea lore More »
Remember this day, friends. Remember when the cyborg beetles early first took flight in our labs and flew right into their world domination destiny. Look! Even now one of the brood is stealing a quarter, no doubt for financing purposes. More »
This balletic work of aerial badassery is performed by Dante Ha, a professional stuntman who you can find in movies like The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: First Class. Just try to do half of what he does. More »
Yesterday, Macitynet showed off some pictures of the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch practically drowning in the now-famous iPhone 5 cases, pointing toward a thinner and wider design revamp. But MacRumors hired a designer to confirm the design. It's smaller. Significantly so. More »
According to Inside Facebook, Facebook is currently testing a translate button for international users to getting around the language barrier. Facebook will provide a button to translate users' comments on the fly. More »
It's one thing to have some sort of "noble purpose" when you grab nudie pics from a person's computer. Extorting people for them and making money off their identities is quite another. That's what 32-year-old Luis Mijangos did, and it's completely vile. More »
A lot's happened since the last time we put all the iPhone 5 rumors in one place for you. So here's an up-to-date look at what we're expecting from Apple's next iPhone. More »
After all the boozing and barbecuing on America day off from labor, take a sec to look up. What you'll hopefully see is A supernova burning bright more than 21 million light years away. More »
Looks like everybody is getting in on these smooth-panning camera systems. A new cousin to the CineSkates, here's the CheesyCam Pico Dolly, a simple setup for littler cameras like the new Sony NEX-7. More »
These shots depict the already epic Turda Salt Mines, located in Transylvania, Romania. They could also be what Christopher Nolan chooses as the revamped Batcave in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. I can't think of a better candidate. More »
Watching artist Barry JC Purves manipulate his figure of melancholy composer Petyr Tchaikovsky in this brief 25fps time lapse is absolutely mesmerizing. It's kind of like seeing the veil torn away and watching God move his subject. More »
Here's the plan: A giant garden hose 12.4 miles long, tethered to a ship and attached to a 650-foot (about two football fields) balloon, which will pump out hundreds of tons of chemical particles into the stratosphere to mimic a volcano. More »
Where do you turn when your partner double-crosses you? Who do you tell when the plan goes south and the money goes missing? The only people you can trust: your Twitter followers. Unless! More »
