Apple has announced a new line of MacBook Pros that range from $1,199 to $2,499 and include new Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs and Thunderbolt I/O.

Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook.

In a lodge in the shadow of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, reading tales of the summit's almost-implausibly calamitous past.

Even before the viewer catches a glimpse his first Mogwai, Joe Dante's Gremlins establishes the link between the titular goblins and malfunctioning technology by way of Randy Peltzer and his many incompetent inventions. It's a film very much of its time, with many fascinating things to say about the way Reagan-era Americans looked at technology. It's also a movie that would be impossible to remake today, for one big reason: the smartphone is our Bathroom Buddy.

A controversial radio-controlled flight over Manhattan brings a measure of joy and wonder to the New York City skyline.

A new remote-control ball controlled by a smartphone app seems less like magic than a kind of undead.

With cofounder Sergey Brin taking a role in development, Google sets its sights on social.

he Cassini spacecraft has detected atmospheric oxygen on Rhea, a rocky, icy moon orbiting Saturn. 950 miles in diameter (less than half that of our moon), the tiny world is covered with water ice, which likely produces free oxygen as it is bombarded with charged particles from the magnetosphere of its parent planet, Saturn.

A Microsoft patent filed in May (and published yesterday) describes a �topography-changing� display in which shape-memory polymers would react to light signals to change the texture of a display surface, a technology that may be used to develop tactile touchscreens or other controls.

German robotics company Festo offers a postfuturist menagerie: autonomous kites, silver air-jellyfish and flying robo-penguins.