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For a brief, weird moment in the Myspace-fueled early 2000s, dance music felt truly alternative.

Mailing each other packages of tiny discs filled with music kept us connected.

People with terabytes of MP3s who want a solid app to catalog and organize their libraries feel abandoned by Apple's new cloud-based music strategy.

Times are dark, my friends. It's time to accept the inevitable: Zune is dead. Here's what to do next.

This week the Internet was all aflutter with talk of Big Bird, Jessica Williams, YouTube's 10th anniversary, and ... murder? Read all about it here.

The Berlin Boombox may be made of thick cardboard, but it's got that cool retro-80s style and is sure to grab some looks. It's got a built-in amplifier and two speakers for true stereo sound, and I have to say... the sound quality is decent. I don't know if the cardboard shell has anything to do with that, but there's a warm sound coming from the two speakers that is perfectly fine for my listening needs. There's also a volume control knob on top that also serves as the On/Off switch and a battery holder in the rear for 3 AA batteries.

With music tastes that range from Polka, to the Imagination Movers via The Cars, this geek family finds the Logitech Squeezebox Touch to accommodate far reaching tastes.

With the Galaxy Player 3.6, Samsung attempts to steal a bit of attention from Apple's iPod touch. But is even the inexpensive $150 entry fee low enough to compel anyone to carry both a smartphone and a second mobile device?

Robert Frosts’s classic poem, The Road Not Taken, concludes with the line “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” If you’re a road-less-traveled kinda geek, then come along as we learn more about Rockbox, an open-source firmware upgrade for […]

Wired follows the story of Bitcoin, the virtual currency you can actually spend—if it doesn't get stolen first.

“Hey boy, hey girl. Superstar DJs, here we go” – The Chemical Brothers Let me start this post by saying I have the utmost respect for real DJs – those people who can take two pieces of music, on two physical pieces of plastic, put them on two actual turntables, and make them sound like […]

Are we there yet? Psychologists watch the events inside a "spaceship" on closed-circuit monitors 24/7. Here's what the extreme, extended isolation of a simulated mission to Mars does to the body and mind.

It's like the Second Coming! A decade ago, Napster's attempt to set music free was crushed by the record labels. Now, Facebook and Spotify (and a host of others) have resurrected the dream.

Sam Jain and Daniel Sundin were two garden-variety Internet hustlers before they began exploiting people's fears, selling malevolent cures for fake computer viruses.

No one knows why a shortwave radio station somewhere in Russia broadcasts mysterious beeps, buzzes, and hums. But thousands listen in.

Scientists know how to turn a chicken into a dinosaur. What could possibly go wrong?

One '70s version of the IUD made thousands of woman sick and infertile. Can the technology redeem itself?

Bank-grade security. Military-grade reliability. CIA-grade secrecy. One man was clever--and foolish--enough to break into the slot-machine industry.

Despite somewhat polarizing looks (I kind of like them, and some of you probably hate them), the Sportive “watch” from French company VEA looks like the idea runner’s companion. Not only does it pack in the tracking, altitude and speed-recording features of a wrist-mounted GPS device, it also replaces your cellphone, camera and — yes […]

When my daughter was a newborn, and nursing what seemed to be all the time, I had a hard time not being bored out of my mind. During the day, it wasn’t as much of a problem because I had the TV and computer to keep me amused. At night, especially when she woke up […]

Technology turns an age-old concept into an exciting new strategy for encouraging better behavior.

This big, ugly gadget is the LifePlayer, and it can change people’s lives. It’s a solar-powered five-band radio and MP3 player designed to be used as a teaching aid in the developing world. Currently, the units are being tested in Rwanda where the government has decided to switch the nation’s language from French to English. […]

As an Englishman, this plug-in MP3 player from Giha Woo terrifies me. After suffering decades of brainwashing propaganda in the form of public service ads which outlined the myriad dangers awaiting anyone stupid enough to plug things into power outlets, I take one look at Woo’s Plug and Player and see a potential death trap. […]

Human milk is being bought, sold, and donated on an unprecedented scale. With demand comes fierce competition and potential risk.