If you’ve ever tried using the web to book a vacation, there’s a good chance you found yourself juggling a half-dozen tabs at once: a couple for hotel review sites, a booking engine or two, and, finally, a Google Map to figure out where exactly all these places are actually located. Today, Google has announced [...]

Now that SXSW is fully over, it’s time to start going over some of the data from the so-called Location War between Foursquare and Gowalla. The truth is that both saw an amazing surge in usage, and at least according to data I saw from one source, the two were neck and neck midway through [...]

Turns out, hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 from the Secret Service for undercover informant work — while he stole millions of bank card numbers by hacking into TJX and other companies.

According to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, coffee can stave off the effects of aging on the brain—specifically in women over the age of 65. "MRI brain scans revealed that women who drank three cups of coffee per day (or 6 cups of tea) had lost less brain tissue called white [...]

The famed Polaroid name many now be in the hands of various licensees and, er, Lady Gaga, but the folks at the Impossible Project are at least keeping the Polaroid dream alive, and they’ve now announced that their new Polaroid film will go on sale in the UK this week. Only black-and-white film will be [...]

Darker coffee beans contain a compound that helps slow the production of stomach acid, according to new research. The discovery could explain why darker coffees tend to be easier on the stomach.

Join us in Boeing’s telemetry room during the final flutter test of the Dreamliner.

Pocket-To-Do is a simple, printable, and pocketable to-do list and weekly agenda designed by programmer Adam Bielinski. (Click the image above for a closer look.) The idea is to print out a sheet, cut it in half, and fold them in half twice. You write your weekly plans on the left pane, and your agenda [...]

It’s that time of year again! Spring is the perfect time to brush away the dustbunnies, thrust open the windows and refresh your whole house. But as you may know, the tools and cleansers available to help you do that aren’t always the most environmentally friendly. Luckily, we’ve got some great tips on how to [...]

It's been awhile since I've had to deal with a malware-laden PC, but my long streak of luck ran out this weekend when a family friend—who describes himself as computer illiterate—called. “Every time I try to do anything on the computer,” he told me, “I get a message saying it’s infected, and I have to [...]