As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each [...]

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience934394693001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew toys around with phones, knives and robots. Senior editor Dylan Tweney gives us shares his experience visiting SRI, where he saw an awesome wall-climbing robot.  Watch out, Spider-Man. Then we recap the latest iOS software update for [...]

The head of the Senate’s powerful commerce committee said Friday he’ll introduce a bill that forces online advertising and tracking companies to let users easily opt out of online tracking. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said the bill, to be introduced next week, will create a “universal obligation for all online companies” to not track people [...]

Art Institute of California student Vlad Korishev combined claymation, stop motion and live action in this short film, which qualified as a finalist for 2011 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ filmmaking awards.

This week, the Gadget Lab podcast takes a look at Apple's recent iPhone location tracking issues and the bug they've released to fix it, the Android-powered G2X, titanium-toothed military dogs, some really big knives and more.

In Marvel Studios' new superhero movie, the comic book character takes on his villainous brother Loki. It's a worthy setup for 2012's The Avengers movie, but will children like its supernatural storyline?

After months of insisting that the perception that "the quality of our content may not be the same or better than that of other published internet content" is "baseless," Demand Media has now acknowledged that some of its offerings are not up to snuff. So, it's taking steps to clean up its act.

Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digital subscriptions to its iPad applications, according to the New York Post's Keith J. Kelly.

Two public interest groups are asking the FCC to look into AT&T;'s new cap on broadband usage, arguing the limits could hamper the national broadband plan and let AT&T; discriminate against online competitors.

For blind ultramarathoner-in-training Simon Wheatcroft, recruiting a quality team of race pacers can be a grueling task.

The gorgeous C-X75 will do zero to 60 in less than 3 seconds, emit almost as little CO2 as a Prius and cost a cool $1.1 million. We'll take two.

In Fringe's Friday night season finale, the smartest sci-fi show on prime time dives into a crazed wormhole meltdown that pits heroes from the normal world against doppelgangers living in an alternate universe. It's almost enough to make you forget about flash-forwards, smoke monsters and mysterious hatches. Here are four reasons Fringe is better than Lost.

When it comes to smartphones, how big is too big? Samsung obviously isn't preoccupied with that question, as evidenced by its latest Android device release, the Infuse 4G. Here are our hands-on first impressions.

A new kind of laser captures light just like certain colorful bird feathers. The device mimics the nanoscale structure of colorful feathers to make high-intensity laser light with almost any color.

In Fringe’s Friday night season finale, the smartest sci-fi show on prime time dives into a crazed wormhole meltdown that pits heroes from the normal world against doppelgangers living in an alternate universe, where 9/11 never happened and dirigibles float above Manhattan. Centered on the parallel-universe adventures of FBI investigators Olivia Dunham (played by Anna Torv), [...]

The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the number of applications for [...]

Sony’s online service for its PlayStation 3 and PSP game machines as well as its PC online games remained offline Friday morning following the massive security breach that occurred in mid-April. Sony had originally said that PlayStation Network would be back up this week, but with not many hours left in the week, this is [...]

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience932833591001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); “Size only matters when you’re full-grown, baby.” In this latest trailer for Duke Nukem Forever, which is ostensibly coming out on June 14, we see one of the game’s funnier gameplay gimmicks, in which Duke gets shrunken down to action figure size. You can read our hands-on impressions of this mode from the [...]

When it comes to smartphones, how big is too big? Samsung obviously isn’t preoccupied with that question, as evidenced by its latest Android device release, the Infuse 4G. As soon as you pop the phone out of the box, the first thing you notice is its size. The thing is massive. It needs to be, though, [...]

Two public interest groups asked federal regulators Friday to take a close look at AT&T’s new limits on their broadband customer’s internet usage, saying the caps could undermine the national broadband plan. AT&T’s caps, which went into effect Monday, limit DSL customers to 150 GB of usage a month, while customers of the more robust [...]

Jaguar has leapfrogged Porsche in the race to build the world’s most expensive, if not extreme, hybrid. The venerable British automaker announced today that it is working with Williams F1 to develop the C-X75, the spectacularly gorgeous supercar that dropped jaws at the Paris auto show last fall. Jag promises a car as fast as it [...]

The Shark Men catch, tag and release a 17-foot, 9-inch-long male great white weighing more than two tons.

Take a lap of Istanbul Park with Mark Webber of Red Bull Racing.

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From deep-sea fishing grounds to shallow-water nurseries to hurricane-blunting wetlands, multiple Gulf ecosystems have demonstrable utilitarian and economic value. Yet except for one think tank, nobody has tried to calculate that value.

It's four-tenths of a mile long and drivers will experience 3.5G as they take it at more than 160 mph during this weekend's Turkish GP. Here's a look at one of the best corners in all of motorsports.

Short takeoff and landing is synonymous with flying in Alaska, where a teenager from Virginia has a good chance of winning a most unusual flight contest.

No need to release any gruesome snuff photos to prove it. Al-Qaida itself conceded on Friday that the U.S. killed its founder and leader in an online statement. Beyond that, the terrorist group evidently doesn't have much else to say about the massive questions it faces about its future.

Workers at suicide-plagued Foxconn plants which make some of the world's most sought-after gadgets remain subject to onerous and illegal working conditions, a protest group which conducted hundreds of on-site interviews is reporting.

According to pre-order pages at Best Buy's website, the HTC-made digital stylus will not be included with the company's tablet offering, the 7-inch HTC Flyer. Instead, the pen will be sold separately with a hefty $80 price tag.

Online hacktivist clan Anonymous denies accusations that it was behind recent attacks on Sony's gaming networks, and claims "online thieves" have framed the group.

If you want to win The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest, you’d do well to mind these four factors: novelty, length, punctuation, and “abstractness and imaginability.” Paying attention to those parameters certainly doesn’t guarantee a win in the weekly competition, which calls on readers to craft their own punch lines to accompany black-and-white drawings. But it [...]

Geeks and noobs of all ages get lucky on Free Comic Book Day with gratis copies featuring the summer's greatest superheroes, including Green Lantern, Thor and Captain America. A preview of the 10 hottest titles from Saturday's event.

If someone shot a wildlife film about Middle-earth, it would probably look a lot like The Troll Hunter, a Norwegian mockumentary that has the internet buzzing. An impeccable production with a brilliant concept, The Troll Hunter successfully blends scares with dry humor. The movie sags slightly during some flaccid interludes, and the plot loses some steam [...]

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience930979373001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); What’s the premise of The Darkness II? If you don’t know by the time you watch this teaser trailer, you are bad at understanding language. 2K Games’ sequel to its 2007 shooter will be available October 4, 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has finalized its lineup for the Art of Videogames exhibit, it said Thursday. The official list contains 80 games (PDF), including Portal, BioShock and Shadow of the Colossus. Also on display will be Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, games that are generally [...]

Online hacktivist clan Anonymous has denied accusations that it was behind the recent PlayStation Network attack, and claims other “online thieves” have framed the group. On May 4, the chairman of Sony’s board of directors, Kaz Hirai, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives about the “very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyberattack” that [...]

HTC wants its Android tablet to stand out from the myriad others introduced this year, offering a stylus pen to compliment its new hardware. But differentiation might prove too pricey for customers. According to pre-order pages at Best Buy’s website, the HTC-made digital stylus will not be included with the company’s tablet offering, the 7-inch [...]

Workers at suicide-plagued Foxconn plants, which make some of the world’s most sought-after gadgets, remain subject to onerous and illegal working conditions, according to a protest group which conducted hundreds of on-site interviews. Labor group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, or SACOM, went to four Foxconn facilities and interviewed more than a hundred [...]

After months of insisting that the perception that “the quality of our content may not be the same or better than that of other published internet content” is “baseless,” Demand Media has now acknowledged that some of its offerings are not up to snuff. So, it’s taking steps to clean up its act. Among other things, [...]

Welcome to the future — it only costs $19.99. Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digital subscriptions to its iPad applications, according to the New York Post’s Keith J. Kelly. The New Yorker will become the [...]

Of all the inadequacies revealed by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, maybe none is as fundamental as the failure of companies, markets and government to put a price tag on natural assets. From deep-sea fishing grounds to shallow-water nurseries to hurricane-blunting wetlands, multiple Gulf ecosystems have demonstrable utilitarian and economic value. Yet except for one think tank, [...]

These kicks finds a happy middle ground between hefty trails shoes and lightweight, barefoot-style running shoes.

Just four days after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden - and seized more than 100 discs, drives, and computers from the al-Qaida hideout - the U.S. restarted its drone attacks on Pakistan. Then, mere hours earlier, drones hit Yemen for the first time in nearly nine years. Could this be the first result of intel taken from bin Laden’s thumb drives?

Set a place at the table for climate change; hotter weather may have already taken a bite out of food crops worldwide.

If you ever pass through Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport, you'll probably run in to Petteri Räisänen. He doesn't work at a security checkpoint, nor is he a pilot. He's not even a jet-setting business traveler, but he's always at the gate or sitting in an airport lounge. He's a frequent flier — but only for the fun of it.

If you want to win The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest, you'd do well to mind four factors. Researchers dig into the data generated by the popular competition and come up with simple tips for quipsters who want to make the judges' shortlist.

I haven’t written a column about World of Warcraft in several months. That’s because, several months ago, I burned out, and I burned out hard. I remember the exact moment: It was in a raid; we were fighting some boss that I don’t even want to look up the name of. It was the big dog [...]

Thanks to the magic of photo-editing software, we present the most hilarious and creative of the White House Situation Room LOL pics.