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The definition of sportmanship may lie to some extent in the eye of the beholder, but on Monday the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service reportedly recognized the video game League of Legends as a professional sport. The decision enables the most elite of players in the field to qualify for Inte...
Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from northwest China, died after being electrocuted by her iPhone, according to relatives. Ma reportedly died while using the device, which was charging at the time. Local police confirmed that electrocution was the cause of death, but stopped short of pinning blame on ...
What you are going to see in a few days, when Dell stockholders get to vote on Michael Dell's plan to buy back his company, is a war of perceptions -- and perhaps a revelation on the state of the U.S. investor. Both ISS and the Chancery Court have clearly come down on Michael Dell's side, arguing th...
AeroVelo, a team of engineers and students, kept a human-powered helicopter aloft for more than 1 minute, a feat that snagged a $250,000 cash prize that had eluded competitors for more than three decades. The team won the challenge issued in 1980 by the American Helicopter Society to fly a human-pow...
Intrepid hikers and garden-variety Internet addicts now have 4G access on top of Japan's famous Mt. Fuji. Japanese telecom NTT DoCoMo has equipped the 12,388-foot summit with high-speed LTE connectivity. The access will run now through August, the height of the tourist season on the mountain. Fuji h...
Researchers at NCSU have developed four techniques to create freestanding structures from liquid metal using 3D printers. One technique involves stacking droplets on top of one another. The droplets adhere to each other because of surface tension, but that same surface tension prevents them from mer...
Here's a charging method that could make a lot of sense. It's one that isn't reliant on the sun to convert solar radiation into power; it also isn't reliant on heavy batteries for its mojo. Instead, SolePower uses the same principle as a hand-crank flashlight. SolePower's shoe insert includes a wate...
It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but users of Nokia's upcoming Lumia 1020 mobile smartphone may well be able to do better than that. That's because the new marquee Windows phone -- formally unveiled Thursday at a Nokia event in New York -- will offer 41 megapixels, not to m...
In Japan, a flubbed privacy setting made public a Google Groups chat among Japanese bureaucrats, allowing any-and-everyone to see internal memos, including negotiating positions for an international treaty. The default settings for Google Groups, which are established by the party that started the c...
You, too, can set up a personal wireless Internet connection of your very own over distances of up to several miles. All you need are two microwave antennas; some long Ethernet cables; a couple of photographic tripods; a laptop; an old WiFi Router; and a power supply. The total cost to you? No more ...
NASA is gearing up for a 2020 Mars rover mission designed to search for signs of past life, according to a 154-page report released Tuesday. The unnamed 2020 mission's search for life is the "next logical step" for Martian exploration, NASA said. The new rover's design will be based on its predecess...
France has abandoned a law that called for copyright infringers' Internet connections to be cut off upon a third offense. The law stipulated that letters be sent the first and second time people illicitly downloaded copyrighted material; the third time around, an offender's Web access would be disco...
Nokia is expected to bring its monster 41-megapixel camera sensor to its line of Windows Phone 8 handsets Thursday at its "Zoom Reinvented" event in New York City. Nokia's 808 PureView technology has been in one of its Symbian phones for a while with little notice given to it, but the handset make...
Gamers eagerly awaiting the September launch of Grand Theft Auto V got a sneak preview on Tuesday with the release by maker Rockstar Games of the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming title. Due Sept. 17 for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles, Grand Theft Auto V promises to del...
Samsung could be launching as many as four unique versions of its Galaxy Note III when the smartphone debuts later this year, rumor has it. The company reportedly will release versions that offer the same applications, processors and hardware platforms but will come with a variety of displays, camer...