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I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the year's finest film. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation honors the year's best fiction

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.

Yes, Hollywood Stars can live up (or down) to their stereotypes. But they can also be invaluable in promoting a good cause.

Waiting for a translator can mean life or death in a hospital. Now doctors have can have a native speaker in their pocket. Doctors working in cities with large immigrant populations often come up against a troubling issue: They can't understand many of the non-native English speakers that come into their hospitals

I received several great responses from my last headphone review . I recently tried out the Klipsch Image ONE on-ear headphones . My work requires that I travel quite often which means I spend a lot of time in airports, where people frequently use headphones while waiting on their flight

The startup's capital comes from big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock, and its tech team includes a co-founder of Silicon Graphics and the man who was the chief architect for Palm's revolutionary webOS software.

Use Google Goggles to scan bands and art (not clunky codes) to download free stuff in the new HTC Sensation 4G ads, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Deutsch L.A. and Google

Those thin gray streaks in the image are the high-altitude plumes of ash spreading across the Pacific Ocean from the erupting Chilean volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, as imaged by NASA. The ash continues to disrupt flights in parts of the region, with Australia and New Zealand (on the left of the image) particularly affected

With new requirements to be honest about how well they protect and how easily they come off, new sunscreen regulations are a step forward, but could still result in you not getting the protection you paid for. Skin cancer is a major problem in the U.S; between 1992 and 2004, melanoma rates grew by nearly half.

The first wave of the Web was about anonymity and aliases. The next wave, led by Facebook, is about real identities. Here's how that's going to change online commerce.

An ambitious new project by the British Library will place a huge number of 19th-century books--including original illustrations, page layouts, and design--on Apple's tablet for leisure reading.

Shazam was once just a great app for identifying that cool tune on the radio. Now it's plunging into TV and advertising. You know Shazam as the cool smartphone app you use to identify tunes on the radio

Have a business near a concert or sports venue? Wouldn't you like a way to reach that local, hungry, primed-to-spend crowd just as their tummies start to grumble? Here's a site and an app for you.

After decades worth of vision research, Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M has tuned up its Visual Attention Service, an algorithm that can scan all types of content to determine exactly where the average human eye is most likely to be drawn. Open a Website today, and you'll be struck with a circus of activity: bold headlines, splash images, dropdown displays, flashing ads. What grabs your attention the most?

It's time for an updated guide to protecting your data on Facebook. Here's how to turn Face Recognition off, and make your profile as safe as you'd like it to be. Facebook seems to be forever pushing the boundaries of what "online privacy" means