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GENEALOGISTS call it an "aha" moment: You unearth a meaningful family detail -- your great-grandma taught kindergarten and raised beagles or your great-great-great-grandpappy was the youngest of 12 brothers and sisters -- and you're hooked.

Philadelphia residents have a new weapon for fighting municipal corruption: An iPhone app that lets them send photos and video of money-wasting city employees directly to the controller's office. One crusading Philadelphia politician is using iPhones to fight corruption and fraud. City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced the launch of Philly Watchdog , an anti-corruption iPhone application, on April 19

Birth certificate, schmirth certificate. The Yale Cultural Recognition Project's theory suggests that die-hard birthers will hold firm to their political philosophies in the face of incontrovertible evidence--until they're given a way to save face. Anyone eager to confront genuine issues plaguing the nation--from staunch lefties to sober leaders on the political right--got a moment of respite today with the release of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

For performance-minded Richard Mille, the creation of an ideal golf watch was a matter of finding the right test pilot. And for sheer g-forces there was no better selection than PGA tour prodigy Bubba Watson, one of the most powerful long-ball hitters to emerge in recent years. The RM 038 ...

It's not enough to simply write about data any longer; the world wants visuals. While there are many professional information designers making a name for themselves, such as Nicholas Felton of Feltron.com , the majority of these digital artists are up to their eyeballs in high-paying work. Where does this leave you?

Augmented reality , or AR, may finally be coming of age. Particularly for Millennials, defined as those born in the 1980s and whose lives revolve around being constantly connected to technology (Blackberries, iPhones, Facebook, Twitter, video games, and more), AR offers a serious opportunity for marketers to reach these important consumers. With augmented reality, marketers can take the physical world and combine it with the digital world, giving both users and brands the ability to connect even further with a product before, during and after making a purchase.

Sometimes it seems like a new flashy electric car is announced every week. But the CEO of BMW North America--which has at least two electric vehicles on tap--just announced that he doesn't think EVs will work for more than 10% of the population. Why is the company ragging on its own cars?

The League of Extraordinary Nerds takes over saturday night with cultural exploration and charity fund raising. The League of Extraordinary Nerds wants reform the tired bar scene with some cultural infusion and a healthy dose of charity. Syyn Labs, the digital arts company widely known for helping make

The BlackBerry PlayBook is a new 7-inch business tablet that shows promise.

The facts paint a grim picture . Women make up half of the U.S. workforce but represent only 25 percent of the technology industry.

Lee Westwood won the Indonesian Masters on Sunday to put himself in position to move back to No. 1 in the world if Luke Donald fails to win the PGA Tour event in South Carolina.

Making sense of our data-saturated world requires a combination of technical and design skill.

Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--and it wants your help. Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--by posting thousands of Freedom of Information Act documents on highly publicized websites. If Greenpeace's tactics work, the organization could change the way companies do business, or at least force them to better hide incriminating documents.

Granny leaves the rest of us behind, with her new long-distance, brick-wall-smashing Wi-Fi. A Houston grandma, Leticia Aguirre, is believed to be the first residential user of so-called "Super Wi-Fi." That's according to Rice University , which had a hand in all this (and knows a good headline when it sees one).

Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales