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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s products are constantly tested behind the scenes for potential new features, and since Gmail is just about as high as you can get on that list it makes sense that there’s no shortage of potential updates being explored at any given time. Recently we explored a series of new feature for the mobile Gmail cli

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Chopping wood is hard, but it’s something modern society has largely freed us from as a daily activity. That’s nice, but consequently, if you ever do have to chop wood, you’re more than likely going to suck at it. Splitting a log requires a surprising amount of force, but Finnish inventor Heikki Kärnä has invented

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Given a sufficient period of time, the Earth is much more malleable than we generally give it credit for. We tend to think of changes to our planet as happening in geological time periods (“geologically speaking, that land mass formed extremely quickly…” and such) but not everything moves that slowly. In fact, some

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company’s next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble. Google’s got a huge communication problem right now. If you take a loo

Windows 8 gets Personal Use License for anyone building their own PC Microsoft has never really acknowledged or supported those among us who choose to build their own PCs. Windows licensing is usually offered in three forms: full retail product license, retail upgrade license, and OEM license. If you want to build your own machine at the moment, Microsoft expects you to buy a full retail copy of W

Good news, everyone! Microsoft has decided that the time has come to make sure that all users of Internet Explorer are using the most current version possible. To accomplish that goal, they’re turning on automatic updates. Yes, Internet Explorer patches and new major versions are already available via Windows Update. But to move from one version to the next, it’s never been a fully automatic proce

Early last year Google set out on a mission to bring 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home networks in selected areas across the U.S. It was a big challenge, and one that states, counties, and cities fought hard to get in their areas. 18 months on, and those Google networks are being installed. As they come online individuals with access to the super-fast lines are posting their Speedtest.net results, and boy a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. One of the things that seemingly wasn’t covered much at Google I/O was Google TV. It was clearly difficult for the Android team to admit that Google TV was not received nearly as well as everyone had hoped. As cool as the Apple TV competitor was, it lacked some critical functionality in order to “bring the internet

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Russian company ElcomSoft is claiming to have cracked the 256-bit hardware encryption Apple uses to protect the data on iOS 4 devices, and is offering software that allows anyone to do it. ElcomSoft is well-known as a corporate security and IT audit company, working with law enforcement agencies, the military, and