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The new three-floor Espa spa at the Istanbul Edition hotel, designed by London-based Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), fuses modern chic with the traditional Turkish spa. Design elements include embossed bronze floors and horsehair-upholstered walls in stylized rooms, yet it offers classic treatments like the Turkish Indulgence ($320) in a hammam

Being an Apple fan is almost a religion, according to one pseudo-scientific study that looked at brain scans of Apple worshipers. Great for Apple--but what's in it for you? Just imagine the marketing consequences..

The streaming movie service has grabbed over 30% of Net traffic into U.S. homes during peak evening hours.

Google clearly thinks so! Google announced this week that it will be launching a new sort of netbook called a "Chromebook" on June 15th.

For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief

New technology could make smartphones the norm in the developing world, and might have a host of other applications yet to be imagined. A Cambridge University Ph.D. student, Jens Christensen, has developed a novel way to make touchscreens cheaper

Why do we demand things of electric cars that we would never demand of normal ones?

Today, Microsoft launched Bing for the iPad, an app that integrates the company's search experience with Apple's tablet. In essence, it's no different than Google's iPad app: You'll find all the features you'd expect from Bing (search, maps, etc.) optimized for the device's touch-screen interface.