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Scientific American's 2012 Gadget Guide: Tech That Will Satisfy Your Inner Geek [Slide Show]

SA has combed shopping malls and Web sites for 10 of the geekiest gadgets that leverage science and technology in novel and surprising ways

Live Chat at 12:30 P.M. EST on What Good Is a Home 3-D Printer?

Join us for a live online chat with Mark Frauenfelder, editor in chief of MAKE magazine and co-editor of Boing Boing. He will help us understand what might be possible with a 3-D printer in your family room...

Can You Ditch Your Smartphone Data Plan for Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi is just about everywhere these days, so why do you still have to pay an arm and a leg for pricey 3G and 4G wireless data service from a carrier if you want to get online from your smartphone?...

Gmail, Meet Google Drive--and Behold 10GB File Transfers

Anyone who has ever had to send enormous files across the Internet has a new option

Auto-Immune: "Symbiotes" Could Be Deployed to Thwart Cyber Attacks

Running on CPUs to detect malware targeting embedded computers that run car system and utilities, symbiotes may not only serve as immune systems for their devices, but also help reveal a previously unseen ecosystem of malware...

Patent Watch: Microfabricated Tools and Crystallization Plates

How to Stay Secure with VPN

Tech Talker: Quick and Dirty Tips to Navigate the Digital World

Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem

Encoded photons sent a record distance along busy optical fibers

December 2012 Briefing Memo

6 Electronic Devices You Can Control with Your Thoughts

From toys to mind monitoring, brain-computer interface options are already on the market

How Far Away Is Mind-Machine Integration?

Forget voice control or gesture recognition: gadgets may soon link directly to our brains

Microsoft Wants to Denigrate Your iPhone and Android Again

Look how awful that iPhone 5 is

New Microsoft Xbox 720 Promises Latest Kinect, Plus Blu-ray Drive, Says Xbox World

Microsoft's Xbox 720 will unveil a new version of Kinect, a Blu-ray drive, and an A/V port for watching and recording broadcast TV, at least according to details leaked by Xbox World...

Math Reveals Perfectly Cozy Penguin Huddles

Selfish behavior proves to be good for the group when it comes to staying warm

Technically Art: Engineers Make Cameras, Then Hit the Pavement [Slide Show]

With New York City as their backdrop, Cooper Union engineering students use their technical skills to reimagine photography

Technically Art: Engineers Make Cameras, Then Hit the Pavement [Slide Show]

With New York City as their backdrop, Cooper Union engineering students use their technical skills to reimagine photography

Watch: How to Merge Your Real and Virtual Worlds [Video]

Going beyond smart phone apps, augmented reality will take the next steps with Google Glass and other technologies that create a new kind of seamlessness and telepresence. A NOVA ScienceNow video with David Pogue...

Bat Detective

Help researchers identify and classify bat calls

Google Nexus 4 Already Sold Out at U.S. Google Play Store

Just minutes after going on sale in the United States, the new Nexus 4 smartphone from Google and LG was already sold out

New iPhone, iPad and 'iTV' Slated for First Half of 2013?

Apple's product line could be getting a major makeover early next year, a new report claims