If you've seen the incredibly dull marketing campaign for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which makes the upcoming role-playing game look like just another generic Tolkien clone, you probably aren't that excited. But this Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC game, to be released Tuesday, is an addictive good time.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

It's not hard to get tangled in technical jargon when buying a new PC, especially if it's your first. This guide was made to help you identify what you want without having to drag your token nerd friend along.

A digital survey put out by Best Buy and leaked to The Verge this weekend asked customers to rate their interest in a $1,499, 42-inch, iOS-laden Apple HDTV. Best Buy's motivation? It was conducting a "routine offer effectiveness survey."

A blogger may be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic damages after allegedly hijacking his former employer's Twitter followers. A lawsuit brought by South Carolina-based PhoneDog Media, a mobile-phone review site, raises a novel legal issue asking the simple question: Who owns an account's Twitter followers, the employee or employer? For the moment, it looks like the employer does.

A song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again, making it the world's oldest known piece of music.

A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant?s attorney said Monday.

In recent weeks, a pair of high-resolution images of the Earth has captivated the Internet. Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, these pictures portray our planet's incredible beauty with a whopping 8,000 by 8,000 pixel and 11,500 by 11,500 pixel detail.

Autopsies are crucial for doctor training, progress in medical research and closure for families -- and yet the events are on the decline. Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs revisits an autopsy he once attended to showcase the value of these ultimate medical audits.

Software-defined networking. Network Virtualization Platform. Oh no, new acronyms to remember, right? But this one is much bigger than that: The cloud is now coming after the high-end networking gear that links up most data centers.

This morning, Verizon and Coinstar announced a long-rumored joint venture, combing a new video download and streaming service from Verizon with Coinstar's popular Redbox kiosk rentals of DVDs, Blu-rays and video games. The service will launch in the second half of 2012.

The biggest highlights of Super Bowl XLVI ? the thrilling final seconds and Madonna?s halftime performance ? lit up social media, setting a record for the most tweets per second (TPS) on Twitter for any sporting event.

In the Army's latest call for research proposals, the service is looking for ways to develop a "Virtual Laboratory of Aggregate Behavior," or VLAB. Put simply, the program would yield a digital domain wherein hundreds or thousands of civilians could assemble and partake in "randomized controlled trial experiments" of the Army's design.

To complete a full set of pennies released since 1959, how many pennies do you need to collect? Mathematician Samuel Arbesman explains how anyone can pull off the feat for less than $7.

After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers has breached the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.

The JS1K contest seeks the web's smallest, most impressive JavaScript experiments. This year's love-themed entries include a remarkable 3D rose rendered with less than 1k of code.

The subscription-based streaming music service has just released a completely redesigned Android app that fixes all of the little annoyances.

ABOARD THE U.S.S. WASP -- Very early Monday morning, over 14,000 U.S. sailors, Marines and their foreign allies will launch the most ambitious naval war game in a decade, testing their ability to come ashore by sea and air from dozens of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean against a hostile force, (hopefully) demonstrating that amphibious warfare is back after ten years of grueling land battles. And tonight, in the hangar deck of this 40,000-ton assault ship, no one cares.