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North Korea announces the death of supreme leader Kim Jong-il and urges its people to rally behind his young son and heir-apparent, while the world watches for signs of instability.

Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year. 12/19/2011 05:00:00 AM. Today we're pleased to announce a goodie basket full of Google+ features and functionality for you to unpack and enjoy …

This video documents an unplanned experiment in engineering and human nature. Workers at a construction site contemplate how to arrest a machine that will not stop spinning.

The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border to neighbouring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief.

We share our world with many other species and live in an ever-changing environment. Fortunately, photographers around the world have captured the moments and beauty that allow us to see amazing views…

Well isn't this interesting. Only a day or so after our Galaxy Nexus got an OTA update, Verizon devices got an upgrade to 4.0.2, Google has announced that its

RIM Q3 2011 results: Ships 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones, and approximately 150,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets

Go figure — it's Galaxy Nexus day. Again. And as such, Google has just pushed out two new commercials in its "Calling all…" series. The new spots tout the new smartphone's Face Unlock feature as well as Google+ Hangouts, where Ice Cream Sandwich is proudly showcased. We'd bother explaining more, but we're pretty sure the two play buttons after the break are more than sufficient.Continue reading Google outs two new Galaxy Nexus commercials, touts Face Unlock and Hangouts (video) Google outs…

Android OS 4.0 Estimated Release dates for the Bell Sensation, Galaxy SII, Raider and Optimus LTE

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery right? Well, in an attempt to keep its tenuous grip on the browsing crown, it's borrowing some tricks from its plucky upstart competitors. Microsoft's announced that Internet Explorer will now tie into future Windows Update releases. The new system will start in the new year in both Australia and Brazil — no, we don't get the connection either — with a graduated roll-out from there throughout 2012. Microsoft's saying this will help keep their brow…

Get ready for a This Is Your Life-style recap available online, as Facebook's Timeline feature is now out of beta and available to all users worldwide. Originally announced during the f8 conference back in September, it wraps up all the information you've posted, friendships you've made and embarrassing photos you were tagged in, in a neat, date organized package. If you're worried it may uncover some things better left private — and posted years ago before you were more savvy about social m…

When Google updated its Google+ app to support Mobile Hangouts it did so without allowing those virtual get-togethers to be truly mobile; its origin had to be

Many accidents could be avoided if everyone had their car side and rearview mirrors positioned correctly, eliminating blind spots and making it easier to change lanes quickly.

NPD just published its latest plotting of the great American smartphone OS rivalry, and although the report covers annual rather than quarterly trends, it's perhaps more interesting to hold it up against the previous set of figures we saw — those for Q2 2011. Back then, Google's OS had a 52 percent share, but these new figures suggest a marginally better performance of 53 percent between January and October. Meanwhile, iOS's 29 percent share is identical to what we saw in Q2, hinting that it…

The school year in Saskatchewan will not begin until at least after Labour Day, according to legislation introduced Tuesday.

Just in time to really annoy your family and friends with holiday greetings, Skype for Android has updated to version 2.6, bringing with it support for sharing photos, videos and other files with your contacts. Being able to quickly transfer pics of your gifts and clips of children tearing into meticulously wrapped presents to people on your buddy list is just the most notable change to the VoIP client. Plenty of other tweaks have taken place, even if they're primarily under the hood. For one…

Here's a happy holidays gift from Google to you: You can continue making free calls from within Gmail to US and Canadian phone numbers next year.
When Google initially integrated Google Voice into Gm…

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second — enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. In order to create the slow-motion film in the video we've got after the break, the team had to replicate the experiment hu…

With an abundance of Android developers creating Siri clones, replicas, replacements, competition, etc. you may have had your fill of personal assistants. Three that we have written about include Cl…

 It appears that regardless of how old you are, you love Facebook. That is the takeaway we are getting from some interesting data put together by Nielsen