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Golf hasn't lost its luster for Tiger Woods.

A social networking app just for videos--designed especially for tablets and mobile--gives you the feeling of having the world of web video in the palm of your hand.

According to new information that's allegedly leaking from Apple , Steve Jobs is intent on pushing for wireless iDevice syncing. Better Wi-Fi connections thanks to a carbon fiber chassis may be the solution, it is said. Let's see if this makes sense.

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Courtesy of Aesir What if your phone could live forever?

We, as emotional beings, place a high value on happiness and joy. Happiness is more than a feeling to us - it’s something we require and strive for. We’re so fixated on happiness that we define the pursuit of it as a right.

The company recycles everyday consumer tech to aid activists and imprison dictators. When a crisis map won't cut it, they're the A-Team to call

Remember how the Beastmaster could see through the eyes of his pet eagle? DARPA does.

A young hacker has built a mini Arduino-controlled self-balancing robot that looks for all the world like a mini Segway. It's remote-controlled by a WiiMote, it's cheap, and the chap in question is just 17 years old

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Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. Its principal guru is David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford design school, who takes a similar approach to managing people. He believes leadership is a matter of empathizing with employees

Illustration by Brock Davis Water is becoming a high-stakes business where there's money to be made everywhere you look -- from greasy wool to microchips. In the rangeland of Australia, sheep get frightfully dirty

Imagine if, after the next Deepwater-esque oil spill, we simply deployed a fleet of inflatable sailboats, equipped with oil-sucking booms, that would autonomously sail to the spill and soak up the oil. Or, if we need accurate data about radiation in the water outside another power plant approaching meltdown, we just sent in our fleet of boats, because we don't feel bad about submitting our robot slaves to radiation.

The State Department has launched a new microblog on Tumblr. We have a few lighthearted suggestions on how our diplomats can enter the world of LOLcats and F**k Yeah fansites

Photograph by Benjamin Lowy Opportunity: After fleeing marriage to a Taliban husband, Samiya Amiri found work--and the beginning of a new life--as a renewable-power engineer.