Sometime in 1890, Emile Berliner recorded the first album in the history of the world. Then, that record by the father of the gramophone was...

Open question: when a friend dies, what should her loved ones do with the data on her hard-drives? Data after a death?

An editorial in the 200th anniversary issue of the New England Journal of Medicine looks at mortality and health through the centuries, and ...

You meant well, you intended to be a good file custodian, but somewhere along the way things got out of hand and you’ve got duplicate photos...

Whether you’ve noticed or not, you have a new primary email address listed as your Facebook contact and most likely, it’s an address you’ve ...

Facebook’s sneaky change to email settings reminds us that the social networking giant rarely has the interests of its users front and centr...

The Federation of American Scientists has a very interesting map for all the hypochondriacs and people living in permanent fear of a deadly ...

An IP address (or Internet Protocol address) identifies each networked computer and device on a network. When computers communicate with eac...

Taking full screen screenshots has always been an easy process in the Windows operating system. Just hit the print key and the current scree...

Lunar soil was brought back to Earth during the days of NASA’s Apollo program and scientists eagerly started conducting experiments with it....

Microsoft made waves in the tech world on Monday night with the announcement of Surface, its new Windows tablet. Everything about Surface—fr...

Australia's annual population growth rate was 1.4% for the year ending 31 December 2011, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistic...

Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG has been exploring the bizarre world of Swiss self-destructing infrastructure, documented in La Place de la Concor...

Sitting is one of the worst positions for the body to maintain. After just 20 minutes hunched over in a chair, blood pools in the legs and i...

Not a lot about the yo-yo itself has changed over the decades, but its tricks have become a thousand times more complicated. Ever heard of B...

Someone in a Canberra office has been busy with their browser. Between July and December last year, Australian government agencies asked Goo...

Sometimes you may want to turn off your Internet connection in an instant, for instance if you have noticed that malware is running on a sys...

Kathy Keatley Garvey has won the Association for Communication Excellence gold medal for her rare photo of a honeybee leaving behind its sti...

Battery power on an iPhone or Android phone is always a bit of a crapshoot. However, Carat is an app that shows you which apps suck up power...

Miss Cellania of Neatorama says: "Many Russian drivers use a constantly-recording dashboard camera for legal defense in case of trouble...