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When services such as Netflix switch-hit on the data side, they are providing and consuming APIs. But it still isn't quite true to the The Web is the API, writes Jon Udell.

Gabriel Knight designer Jane Jensen uses community-supported agriculture as the basis of her new game studio Pinkerton Road.

There is a lot of misguided focus on which Facebook employees and investors are amassing what size pile of money, says Meagan Marks, a former Facebook employee, and a shareholder. ?What this IPO is really about is the company now has more money to go out and make more acquisitions and build more interesting products.?

Like most social sites, Twitter tracks your every move around the web. Now, however, the company has joined a growing number of websites that support the "Do Not Track" standard, offering users a way to opt out of the tracking.

The next time you run into an IBM employee, ask them, "What can you do for me?" Their typical response: some flavor of, "Whatever you want." When it comes to cloud computing IBM is making a big statement this week that the status quo remains. "Whatever you want," seems to also apply to cloud computing.

Sigh: touchscreen keyboards. Those tiny letters. The complete absence of charm. If only our shiny new gadgets could incorporate some of the clackety-clack of those old Royal Portables.

Washington state?s Mount St. Helens volcano explodes in a cataclysm that pulverizes its top 1,300 feet, deforests nearby valleys, sends ash 12 miles into the air and kills 57 people.

Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born. The date was October 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the US Department of Defense?funded network that eventually morphed into the modern internet.

Shaun Pendergast was working away at his Portland apartment when he heard a strange noise. He walked to the window and saw two raccoons expressing their love for each other on his roof.

Battleship starts like Top Gun, morphs into Transformers and ultimately ends up somewhere in the neighborhood of Independence Day.

The Fisker Atlantic ? the compact follow-up to the high-style Karma ? debuted early last month to a fair amount of fanfare as early adopters heralded the new range-extended EV as more proof that affordable electrics are on their way. But according to leaked investor documents secured by InsideEVs, the Atlantic won't go on sale ...

The aptly-named "RoBoat" has been taking home the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC) crown for three years, but this July the team behind the world's winningest autonomous watercraft will attempt to snag another record for the longest robotic sailing expedition. The Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (INNOC) has been tweaking and iterating the RoBoat since ...

Al and Al tackle the story of the English computer scientist after realizing they are in love with their computers. The filmmakers talk about their upcoming movie, The Creator, and Turing's lasting impact on culture.

*I don't have to believe it to admire it, folks. http://smartdisorganized.blogspot.com/2012/02/spimescript.html (...) "So, I want to return to one part of that 2006 presentation which I still find relevant - the formation of Spime Script. We're entering a phase where hardware will become increasingly as malleable as software which leads to a problem of choice - if I ...

I suppose it only makes sense that a movie based on a classic boardgame would use a classic plot point: alien invasion! From the trailer, you can tell that the aliens are bent on destruction, have some pretty high-tech weaponry (force fields, peg-shaped missiles, giant spinning wheelie-things that tear apart buildings and ships). The humans have, well, their battleship. While I haven't seen the movie, I'm going to assume that the humans prevail in the end ? but only after much loss of life, the destruction of Hong Kong, and some gruff commands from Liam Neeson about firing on "B-6."

Facebook's got it all -- 845 million users, a $104 billion valuation, blackmail-worthy pics of everyone born in the '90s, and a screen-printing studio. Yup, that's right, the social-media behemoth houses a basement art studio, the Analog Research Lab, where designers Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak churn out hand-screened posters that go up all over Facebook's 36 global offices.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Here is one version of Craig Venter's life story where he would've been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher in genetics, perhaps. Thankfully, Venter saw that story line developing—and set about making sure it never happened. Instead, in 1992 Venter left the NIH to head the nonprofit Institute ...

Federal regulators considered testimony Wednesday at UCLA on whether to allow citizens and filmmakers to legally crack DVD encryption meant to protect them from being copied.