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Fujitsu ScanSnap Counts Quality Over Quantity

Fujitsu's scanner is your new (albeit bulky) buddy if you want high-quality images. The sturdy document feeder gets pages in straight, so you get them out right.

How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys

People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that's a losing battle. So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a new set top box. He's actually created a whole new media ecosystem built around the mobile phone.

String Theory Finally Does Something Useful

String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.

Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer

Chemical analysis of the bones of an ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2,000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis — likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet to support that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.

Samsung Introduces Its 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad

Samsung has announced the launch of a tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad.

Heavy European Snowfall Caused by 'Weather Collision'

The uncharacteristically snowy weather that hit Northern Europe and North America in the winter of 2009 to 2010 was caused by a rare combination of two separate weather oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific, claim meteorologists.

'Earth One' Reboots Superman's Roots for the iGeneration

Superman is a surly noob searching for reality in the digital age in J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis' update of the superhero's origin story. Who knew the Man of Steel would miss the musty Daily Planet more than the rest of us?

Vets Get Ecstacy to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress

Two psychiatric experts think the way to treat troops returning home with PTSD: Have them undergo intensive psychotherapy while they're rolling on ecstasy.

Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars

Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation?s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.

FaceTime Lets You Share Your Point of View

Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see.

Electric Kettles Are Steeped in the Future

Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.

Blackjack Whiz Riffs on Fantasy Sports, Statgeeks and Yahoo

A Q&A with Jeff Ma, the former leader of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-'90s. Now a successful entrepreneur and author, Ma talks about his love of fantasy sports, selling his company Citizen Sports to Yahoo (and why he didn't join them), and how young statgeeks can make their way in a sports industry dominated by traditionalists.

Exclusive Gallery: 1983 Nintendo Family Computer Teardown

In 1983 Nintendo released the Famicon console. Now 26 years later we tear it apart to see what makes it tick.

Google Testing Out Full-Featured Google Apps

There's a sign of hope for frustrated Google Apps users who feel left out of getting all the cool toys regular Google users get: Google is inviting select users this week to test out Apps with all the bells and whistles.

Best Sci-Fi Books for Kick-Starting Your Brain Fry

Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren't sure where to begin? This introductory sci-fi literature syllabus is just for you.

Furor Erupts Over the Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution

A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson's latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution.

5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring

We know ? the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring.

Sink a Putt

While it can take a mere one or two strokes to hit the green, every golfer knows the torture of a four or five-putt adventure once they get there. So whether you're trying to get your golf game back on track or trying to become a Putt-putt superstar, head for the practice green.

Apple Redefines Remote Control — Now, It's Your Cellphone

There's a lot to say about the new Apple TV that Steve Jobs presented today. But I'm not going to talk about the tiny little box. I'm not going to talk about your TV, either ... much. Instead, I?m going to talk about that remote.

Apple's Ping Network Is Already Too Big to Fail

Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network ? one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of Ping, a music-centered community that exists only within iTunes, they are probably right ? and then some.

Networking, Geo Tracking Come to Ski Slopes

EpicMix, a new RFID-based app for skiers, combines performance tracking with real-time, location-based social networking functionality. (Think Nike+ meets Foursquare.) It'll go live at several Colorado ski resorts in November, and we've got an early look.

FCC Delays Net Neutrality Over Google-Verizon Proposal

Federal regulators are putting off efforts to regain authority over the nation?s internet providers while they seek renewed public input on net neutrality.

Hands-On With New Apple iPods

Apple has refreshed its family of iPod products. The iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle all received some compelling makeovers that should help Apple stay in the lead in the portable media-player market.

'Futurama' Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes

As the recently resurrected sci-fi cartoon hits the century mark, executive producer David X. Cohen and voice actors Billy West, Lauren Tom and David Herman look back on their favorite moments.

Hands-On With New $100 Apple TV

When Steve Jobs was preparing to introduce the Apple TV, he called it "one more hobby," and based on our first impressions, that's a safe choice of words. The new Apple TV is a major hardware revamp ? one quarter the size of its predecessor.

Firearms, Boots and Dirty Cars as Canvases

On this leg of his around-the-world drive, our man at the wheel discovers the Wild West is still wild.

Apple Takes Aim at Cable With Tiny New Apple TV

The new Apple TV, which will go on sale at the end of September for $100, is a puny box just one-quarter the size of the previous model. It has an HDMI port, a built-in power supply, an optical audio port, an ethernet jack, and built-in Wi-Fi.

Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery

Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life could exist in the universe.

Aston Martin's Cygnet Microcar Headed to America

Aston reportedly will offer the gussied-up Toyota iQ in the United States, presumably to help it meet tightening CAFE regs.

Ugly Vegas Carpets Want You to Keep Playing

A photo series on Las Vegas casino carpets shows how eye-rending the environments there really are.