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Almost three years ago Dell launched a phone called the Streak, an Android-based handset with a 5-inch display that was marketed more as a tablet with phone capabilities than the other way around.

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A rock crushed under the Curiosity Mars rover’s wheels has dazzled mission scientists in more ways than one.

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If these lizards were larger, they’d look like featherless dinosaurs: With spiky spines and gleaming red eyes, two newly described species of wood lizard look a bit like stegosaur-evil velociraptor hybrids.

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Congress got the word from NASA on Tuesday about its options for dealing with the threats posed by asteroids and comets: Lawmakers can either provide adequate funding for detecting and characterizing near-Earth objects, and diverting them if necessary — or they can pray.

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Google Maps’ Street View is becoming less and less about photographing the road to grandma’s house and more about getting you off the road entirely. The tech giant’s latest project, unveiled Monday, takes mapping initiatives to new and extreme heights by offering interactive galleries of some of the world’s tallest mountains.

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Nvidia unveiled a server product on Tuesday that allows people to work on graphics-intensive tasks by connecting through low-end computers, the chipmaker’s latest move to stake out new markets as its traditional PC market loses steam.

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The deepest place in the ocean is teeming with microscopic life, a study suggests.

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New users flock to the RSS reader app in the two days after Google announced it would retire its own RSS service.

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Clicking those friendly blue Like buttons strewn across the web may be doing more than marking you as a fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga.

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Shortly after Samsung’s famous loss to Apple in a San Jose court last year, the South Korean electronics’ giant opened a new design studio in San Francisco.

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A massive eruption on the sun Friday unleashed a wave of intense solar particles at Earth that may spark a geomagnetic storm and boost weekend aurora displays.

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Reaching out to commuters who use smartphones, Delhi Metro will soon launch a mobile application which will provide information regarding fares and stations including new ones coming up in Phase III.

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When is a touchscreen not a touchscreen? Increasingly, it’s when your smartphone reads your eyes, gestures and movements to perform basic functions without tapping the screen at all.

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But while most of the world never got to meet the man, now, thanks to the Internet, countless thousands know his name. And it’s all because of one of the greatest obituaries ever written.

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Did you see Samsung’s theater of the absurd yesterday? No? Good for you. It unleashed a pale imitation of a Broadway show to roll out its amazing new flagship, the Galaxy S4. There’s a reason Samsung felt the need to put on one hell of a show for one hell of a phone — because, much like the Apple iPhone5, the S4 is in just about every way delightful but ultimately not that intriguing.

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Dropbox has acquired Orchestra, the company behind the email app Mailbox, as it continues to expand beyond file sharing and storage.

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Small tablets are moving to very-high-resolution displays, like larger 10-inch class tablets have done in the last year or so.