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NASA‘s Chris Cassidy wanted to give fellow astronaut Luca Parmitano a warm welcome to the International Space Station last week, but a bottle of wine or a nice casserole wouldn’t cut it. Cassidy buzzed his head to match Parmitano’s signature … Continue reading →

After operating AmazonFresh in its hometown of Seattle for the past six years, Amazon is reportedly ready to expand its online grocery business to Los Angeles as soon as this week. San Francisco could follow later this year. This is … Continue reading →

Nvidia has unveiled a new fine-tip stylus for Tegra 4-based tablets that is low-cost and functions similarly to natural writing. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated the company’s DirectStylus technology at computer trade show Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday. The … Continue reading →

Soon after the first pornographic app appeared for Google Glass, Google has quietly changed its Glass Platform Developer Policies, prohibiting apps that contain sexually explicit content The first paragraph of the “Content policies” section now reads: “We don’t allow Glassware … Continue reading →

Who says Apple doesn’t create jobs in the U.S.? Apple says that 9,200 construction workers will be brought on full-time over the next three years to work on the company’s new 2.8-million-square-foot spaceship campus, according to an 82-page economic impact … Continue reading →

A 16-year-old web developer managed to rickroll Vine, breaching the social-video app’s six-second upload limit in the process. Cleveland resident Will Smidlein posted a Vine on Monday that included the more than three-minute-long music video, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” … Continue reading →

While Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 looks similar existing models in the Galaxy family, on the inside it’s a bit different: The new tablet packs an Intel Atom processor. This is a big win for Intel, a company that … Continue reading →

The NBA Finals begin on Thursday, bringing back an annual tradition of transcendant performances, dramatic twists and legacy-making clutch performances. To hype up fans for this year’s finals, ESPN commissioned the retrospective animation above. It looks back at some of … Continue reading →

Taco Bell has fired two employees involved in a picture that went viral showing one of them licking a stack of taco shells. The fast food giant issued a statement saying the employee who took the photo “no longer works … Continue reading →

OMGPOP, creators of the Pictionary-style app Draw Something, reported job losses Monday, after owner Zynga laid off 18% of its workforce. A tweet from OMGPOP’s official Twitter account revealed that Monday was the “last day at Zynga” for many of … Continue reading →