Google Play adds shared song playlist to Music, helps you relive your friends’ terrible taste in tunes

Remember that funky beat your buddy at work shared with you over Google+? Don’t bother digging through their post history, Mountain View’s music service has you covered with its new "Shared with me" auto-playlist. This self-maintaining list keeps track of all the songs friends and colleagues send your

10 Best Android Puzzle Games

Mobile puzzle games, whether they’re falling block versions or object-matching genres, are so addictive that players have been known to lose a few h…

Audi, GM, others unite on 20-minute EV charging standard for green drivers in a rush

Fast-charging an EV isn’t new in itself, but deciding on a standard for it is. Which is why we’re glad to hear that Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, GM, Porsche and Volkswagen have all agreed to a common format for their EV charging ports, the not-very-elegantly-titled DC Fast Charging with a Combined

Nintendo patent application lends a look at Wii U’s core technology, add-ons too

Little did we know that, just two months after we were trying the Wii U for ourselves, Nintendo was busy patenting nearly everything its unique game console would have to offer. A pair of just-published US Patent Office applications filed last August get into the nuts and bolts of how the controller

Hey Scott – Lying On Your Resume At Yahoo! Could Result In Immediate Discharge!

What’s the penalty for lying on a resume? It’s an important question for new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, after his PR department offered up the laughable excuse that he made "an inadvertent error" on Yahoo’s website and in an SEC filing claiming he had a Computer Science degree. TechCrunch editor Eric

Nielsen finds Call of Duty’s social presence swells 4X after Black Ops II

The media tracking firm Nielsen had an interesting idea – it decided to track the social reach of Activision’s Call of Duty franchise before and after the company announced its latest title, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. It found that in just the span of two days, the amount of tweets, Facebook

Alienware promises Ivy Bridge upgrades for current orders

After announcing that it was bringing Ivy Bridge to its M14X, M17X, and M18X models, Alienware is letting customers know that if they placed an order for one of these laptops before that news, and their order hasn’t shipped yet, they’ll be getting the new Intel CPU automatically, even though

Láseres que pintan información sobre la carretera

Láseres semiconductores verdes más baratos podrían servir para comercializar una nueva tecnología de pantallas de visualización frontal.

Want to Book Restaurants You Find on Foursquare? This Startup Helps

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Cooking The Books: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s CS Degree “Error” Should Cost Him The Job

"You guys might want to cover this before he resigns tomorrow," one hardcore reader emailed in this evening. And yes indeed, newish Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s "inadvertent error" about which degree he got in college is looking like it could cost him his new job. It should.

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