The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots. But does Hubble show us what the universe really looks like?

We’re lucky to live in modern times where stalking an ex is such an easy endeavor. Did you know that stalkers used to have to spend hours, sometimes even all day physically following “their only reasons to live?”

Google announces the release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.

Good news, everyone! Or as Farnsworth would say, bad news, everyone!

It’s perhaps one of life’s most dreaded moments – when you pull down your pants, rest your cheeks on the seat, and plop! into the toilet goes your phone. Instead of cursing your loose pockets and lack of brain, get that phone (iPod, whathaveya) into a bag of rice, STAT!

Open-source advocates at South By Southwest make a pretty convincing case that it could be sooner rather than later that the last closed-source Content Management System is developed.

Unless Doug Powell can persuade USA Triathlon to change its rules, his time in the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run won't even count. The organization requires that disabled people complete the event, which Powell estimates will take him about 15 hours, with one partner, not one for each segment.

The FCC, determined to get good broadband data for the first time in its history, has rolled out Web, iPhone, and Android speed test apps, and it is contracting for a 10,000-home hardware measurement as well. Preliminary (and unscientific) results inside. The results?

Sure, there are more hangover remedies under the sun than spirits you can drink to bring one on -- but our favorite is drunk food. That medically-unproven carb fest designed to help soak up an unwise quantity of liquor in record time.

Police have mistakenly raided their home -----50 TIMES---- looking for crooks. Walter and Rose Martin said the NYPD have always been respectful and never crashed in, but...."I am fearful that if a no-knock warrant is issued with my address that my husband or I will end up having a heart attack," she wrote.

President Obama's first executive action was the Open Government Memorandum calling for more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government. It is likely that one of the longest lasting effects of the current administration will be how much it changed the culture of Washington by opening government data and pioneering innovations.

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong may be most famous for their weed-a-riffic movies, but there's a lot about the stoner duo that you probably don't know.

Proving anyone can win an NCAA bracket, Paula Faris challenges her two-year-old daughter to a game of mother vs daughter. This video will melt your cold heart.

Stick that in your laptop.

In the last second your bodies each produced at least 1,500 sperm cells. Now researchers have unlocked just how this seminal feat is possible.

The Federal Trade Commission has officially put companies on-notice. In a speech before an FTC roundtable yesterday, outgoing FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour called on Web services services like Yahoo!, Facebook and Hotmail to start using HTTPS/SSL encryption.

As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network's value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The results, please...

We’ve reported before about Peter Jackson talking up this summer as the planned start date for shooting The Hobbit. Now Gandalf himself – better known as Ian McKellen – has posted on his website that he’ll start shooting the first movie in July.

Send mobile notifications from your website to mobile phones by just adding a couple lines of code. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars to make your own iPhone app, you can simply use Notifo which is more than an App, but a mobile platform that any website can use to push notifications to users.

NEW ORLEANS -- Carleton Scott's 3-pointer rattled out in the closing seconds, and 11th-seeded Old Dominion delivered the first upset of the NCAA tournament when it stunned sixth-seeded Notre Dame 51-50 on Thursday in the South Regional.

In this interview, conducted by Bruce LaBruce himself, Lagerfeld touches upon subjects that he's never before spoken on, like only having sex with people you don't care about (and mostly escorts) and gay marriage, among other things.

This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate -- recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize -- are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman

In a town where green building is latest rage among mega resorts and gaming palaces, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation has upped the ante on eco-friendly development. The Venetian, the expo center and the Sands' Palazzo-Hotel-Resort Casino are now the largest contiguous structure certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standard.

Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload?

As FlashForward returns to ABC, here's an exclusive clip of what Olivia really saw in her flashforward.

Amazon has finally released a version of its Kindle ebook reading software for the Mac. The company previously released a Kindle app for the iPhone a year ago, and has plans for an iPad version of the software as well.

The atmosphere surrounding last night’s 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate was a bit heavier than usual. “The Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program?” the topic chosen by the directors of the American Museum of Natural History, was announced just before the Obama administration released its controversial NASA budget...

CAR-MAKER McLaren has unveiled its new supercar, designed to bring Formula 1 know-how to the road.

The rotation of power is the finest political instrument ever invented for the consolidation of what were once radical and deeply divisive policies. The classic example is the New Deal. Republicans railed against it for 20 years. Then Dwight Eisenhower came to power, wisely left it intact, and no serious leader since has called for its repeal.

Japan, Canada and scores of developing nations opposed the measure on the grounds that ban would devastate fishing economies