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Sure, Apple's new syncing service might help the music industry recoup some of the money it's lost to piracy.

Is that little "neighborhood" group funded by the Koch brothers?

A photo much imagined, but until just now never actually seen in the flesh--this is, oddly, the first time the ISS and Shuttle were snapped paired together, thanks to a departing crew member aboard a Soyuz capsule. Cherish it, space and science fans

MassMotion puts a large, intelligent, 3-D crowd into a building's design and finds out where you need bigger doors or more escalators. Humans react in a seemingly irrational manner during emergency evacuations; sometimes, people even get trampled in the process. But what if architects and developers could predict how large crowds might move through their buildings in the event of an emergency--and then tweak the designs to ensure that everything runs smoothly

Heres how to use social blogging, a combination of microblogs (short posts) and status updates, to increase your visibility, improve your search engine results, drive more traffic to your company's website, and potentially increase sales. When people are looking for a product or service, oftentimes they will first look for information about the subject on the Internet. In general, blogging is about having conversations in a public space that position you as a subject matter expert

True, body-enveloping 3-D virtual environments come to everyone's living room with Nintendo's new Wii U controller. Living room entertainment just got one step closer to having a true three-dimensional virtual environment: Nintendo's new Wii U tablet remote control scans a virtual world in true 360 degrees as the user moves it in orbit around his or her body. The brand new technology opens exciting possibilities for not just gaming, but for the exploding tablet market.

In today's why-the-bees-are-dying news: Giving hives checkups throughout the year yields a lot of things that kill bees, but do any of them cause colony collapse disorder? It's the billion-dollar question: why did colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon characterized by honeybees disappearing for no apparent reason, appear from nowhere in 2006

Google just revealed it's supporting authorship markup HTML tags. This may seem like a small tweak, but it's seriously good stuff if you're a writer wanting to find your work online--and it could even help protect an article's IP.

Imagine if the world ran out of phone numbers. Mobile providers could issue no more smartphones, businesses could create no new call centers, and the public would be left fighting over and recycling a diminishing amount of existing phone numbers.

There's been a rush of news from Apple this week: About OS X Lion , and the number of apps that Apple appears to be co-opting; about iOS and how it's incorporating more features from OS X; and iCloud, where Apple pushes all your details into the sky so all your devices can access them.

The Nintendo Wii U, the latest console from Japanese gaming company Nintendo, was announced in a press event in Los Angeles today. Though a follow-up to their popular and bestselling Wii, the Wii U shows a new strategy for the company: beating PS3 and Xbox 360 at providing the most cutting edge HD graphics--a demo of a bird flying through a landscape provided realism beyond current gaming tech. It will launch Holiday season 2012.

The gamification trend--and American laziness--has reached its absolute nadir. Every empire has its moments of decadence before its ultimate collapse. Those denizens of Easter Island cut down every last tree, ruining themselves

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John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've decided to shut down my business.

Activating Jedi powers with motions actually used in the movies? Yes, please! Humans were not meant to experience the exhilaration of life-threatening action while slumped on a couch covered in Doritos crumbs