Since its massive showing at E3, Nintendo's been pretty silent about the Wii U. With the holidays around the corner, you might want to start saving up your money if you want the Wii U and its fancy touchscreen gamepad. If a presentation by gaming accessory maker PDP at a GameStop manager conference has any truth to it, then the Wii U will launch on November 18. Despite denials by PDP rep... more.

Forty-three years, one month and five days ago, Neil Armstrong made human history by being the first man to step foot on the moon. Today, at the age of 82, he has died. Armstrong had heart surgery earlier this month and has died from a complication from the procedures. "We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardio... more.

From playing vacuum didgeridoo to building Lego ISS replicas to taking incredible photos, astronauts onboard the ISS can't really complain about being bored. By far, the best activity in zero gravity yet is yo-yoing, and it's oddly mind-blowing to watch. Astronaut Don Pettit has quite the knack for doing cool things on the ISS. One of his favorite hobbies is doing yo-yo tricks. As you w... more.

That mega-ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga keeps showing new signs of life. After months of wondering if we would ever see it happen at all, it seems Warner Bros. might finally be preparing to pull the trigger on the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer project, but they're eyeing a new leading man. Whispers that Warners would get behind the project after Universal dropped i... more.

People are boring and predictable. We have routines that we follow, and even when we break those routines, we do it in the same ways over and over. Using tracking data from volunteers with cellphones and their friends, researchers are able to exploit this to predict where we'll go next, with an accuracy of 60 feet. If you think about it, your day-to-day schedule is probably predictable ... more.

To put all the megapixel nuts in their place, NASA's released this high-resolution color mosaic of Mars stitched together from 79 photos. We can't remember the last time we were so enchanted by rocky mesas. What you see below is Mars' terrain as captured by Curiosity's 34-millimeter Mascam over an hour's time on August 8. The black sections you see are images that haven't been beamed bac... more.

Is there a generation gap when it comes to music these days? Some might say so, and continue to diverge in their paths, while other folks who have more inclusive tastes do not mind listening to the songs of old from a different era, coming to appreciate what their parents used to rock out to. Well, in terms of music playback devices, so too, will there be differences that need to be bridged â... more.

Hollywood and other content owners, whose relationship with Google is fitful at best, gave the Silicon Valley search company rare praise Friday for its move to penalize websites that have been flagged by copyright holders for potentially hosting pirated entertainment. In a blog post on the company's website, Google explained the changes it had made to its search algorithm, which determines... more.

Inversion is, by almost every metric I have, a terrible game. It is unfulfilling, thoughtlessly designed, overly reliant on a single (and very flawed) gimmick, poorly written, ugly, uninspired, purposeless and ultimately outclassed by all of its competition. And if you're expecting the next sentence to start with a 'But...', then you're going to be sorely disappointed. It actually stagger... more.

Are you ready to go? Run through the checklist: phone, MP3 player, tablet, camera, spare cards, cords, water, shades, wallet. Do you really want to fit all of that in your pockets? Whether touring the world or just running errands there is usually demand to take a few items along. More and more of those items are electrical gear too. The feeling of filling up your jacket or pants pockets is n... more.