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Shaquille O’Neal — all 7-plus feet and 300-plus pounds of him — isn’t just known for casting a huge shadow on the basketball court. He looms large in social media, too, as America’s most-followed athlete (second in the world behind … Continue reading →

What’s New The newly designed “What’s New” screen features new albums and trending playlists and tracks from Spotify friends. Click here to view this gallery. Spotify just announced its new app platform. Partnering with the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, … Continue reading →

Google is celebrating Mark Twain’s 176th birthday with one of the largest Google Doodles we’ve seen so far, referencing a famous incident from Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” where Tom cleverly gets other boys to paint a fence instead … Continue reading →

Supermodels won’t be the only ones spreading their wings Tuesday night during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on CBS. The broadcast’s digital team also is strutting their stuff behind the scenes to enhance your online experience. Before, during and after … Continue reading →

After a disastrous wireless turn from HP that culminated last week with HP taking a charge of $1.66 billion to wind down its webOS mobile platform operation, HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, has finally put a date on when the company … Continue reading →

At its first-ever U.S. press conference, Spotify unveiled on Wednesday a new app platform that allows third-party developers to use the streaming service’s music library and community. Although the apps are only available in beta versions right now for desktop … Continue reading →

If Google was just starting to forget about the Android malware threats from earlier this year, now it has another security headache: Researchers at North Carolina State University just discovered a new vulnerability in some of the most popular Android … Continue reading →

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years, CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. It might seem obvious, but effectively communicating your project … Continue reading →

Owl by Jonathan Adler Click here to view this gallery. To help educate kids in need, celebrities such as Olivia Wilde, Coldplay, and Jonathan Adler are creating a series of pencil drawings made exclusively for Pencils of Promise. The proceeds … Continue reading →

A team of Harvard scientists designed a “soft” robot which can move under difficult obstacles by mimicking the movements of certain animals, such as squid and worms. The robot doesn’t have a hard internal skeleton; it is composed solely of … Continue reading →