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Early photographers recognized the monumental importance of creatures such as Africa’s large animals but could do little about it other than photograph those that sat still in a zoo. Once film was fast enough, telephoto lenses precise enough, and col

Tradition blends beautifully with contemporary life on this Hawaiian island.

  Whether you're sending an email in Gmail, finding directions to that fancy restaurant using Google Maps, or pretending to be a part of the latest microblogging craze with Google Buzz, the G-word is everywhere. Well, it turns out that there is also a wh

Google/Dish collaboration promises customized program schedules, targeted ads, and Google-powered TV show searching No longer simply content to rule the world of computers, the Google juggernaut has teamed up with Dish Network to bring its targeted ads an

Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things­--at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging stud

The successful digital-distribution service will bring titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2 to Apple's computers for the first time.

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learnMAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning t

Seventy years after the closing of the 1939 New York World's Fair, The Daily Show writer Elliott Kalan looks back at its past vision of the World of Tomorrow.

FEBRUARY 1960 METEOR DUST -- “The recent extension of geophysical investigations into nearby space has given emphasis to the fact that life on earth is shielded by the earth’s atmosphere. Death from ‘meteoritic stroke’ might be a not-uncommon

French game-development studio Quantic Dream is junking the one-button–one-action paradigm for something more flexible. In the company's new game, one button may let you dodge a punch, discipline your child or talk to a clown.

Google's browser ate away at Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari with help of its add-ons.

Walking into Theatre Seven at Pinewood Studios, there was a faint sense that we were entering an awkward high school dance. The game speakers sat on the left and the film speakers to the right, resolutely separate. And yet, there was an atmosphere of exci

One of the questions surrounding Google Buzz for mobile was whether or not the search giant planned on using the app to replace Google Latitude. That isn't the case, and instead Google will try different points of integration between Google Latitude and t

As they've established previously, Blizzard isn't anti-console and plans on making another console game -- eventually. World of Warcraft might seem like the natural choice for what game to bring to consoles, given its incredible success, and as producer J

Monster Cable’s line of metal-bodied Turbine and Turbine Pro in-ear headphones have become a favorite of musicians, record producers, and audio engineers, so it is only fitting that the company’s finest headphones be named after one of the 20th-centur