In a bit of news-that-makes-you-say-duh, the WSJ tells us that Motorola is working on making a really good phone, and Google is helping. The interesting bits, though, come in surrounding all the trouble surrounding the project, which Motorola is calling "X Phone". Read More >>

Early leader for least corny, still cool holiday video: a timelapse shot through snowglobes of cities in Canada and England. Read More >>

False alarm, people. Michael McDonald, the Reuters reporter who started yesterday's Yavin 4 rumors, has put the story to bed: It was all a big misunderstanding, and no, there are no leaked story elements from Disney about the new Star Wars movie. Read More >>

This would count as a pretty big leak if it turns out to be true. Buried deep in a Reuters report about Star Wars and Guatemala is a possible leaked plot detail involving the location, and Episode VII. Possible spoilers ahead. Read More >>

Google Play Books got a nice update last night, with a Read Aloud feature, and pinch-to-zoom and double-tap-to-zoom. The Read Aloud feature sounds really robotic—even more than Siri or other voice command prompts—but it gets the job done. It's nowhere near as polished as something like Amazon's integration with Audible audiobooks, but it's also totally free. Read More >>

Maybe you heard Trojan was handing out free vibrators in New York this summer, and Washington DC this Autumn? It was a really popular giveaway. The next step, it seems is giving tech nerds some tools for love. Read More >>

Comixology, the biggest provider of digital comic books and the engine behind the Marvel and DC apps, just announced it's got a new automatic bookmark feature called Continue. That's great—and it's about time. Read More >>

It's been a long time since being a comic fan was a shameful thing. Comics are cool now! Kind of. But buying for a comic fan can be tough, since you never know what they've read, and what's any good. Here are some good bets for the comic fanboys and fangirls in your life. Read More >>

Word just came down that Apple's iPhone has been found to infringe on three patents held byMobileMedia, according to Bloomberg. It's not clear which patents are in question, but in 2010, MobileMedia, a company owned by Sony, Nokia, and a company that licenses MPEG patents,took Apple to court over 18 patents dealing with screen rotation and call rejection. Read More >>

North Korea successfully launched a satellite into a careening, drunken, stumbling orbit yesterday. That's probably bad news for someone or some someones, but still pretty impressive technologically. Here's what it looked like from the North Korean control room as it happened. Read More >>

You've seen the pose. One or two phones or tablets standing straight up. Another leaning up against the first at an angle. And somehow, they're all the exact same height. ARRRRGHHH. You learn this crap in junior school, right? Reddit pointed how absurd this seems earlier today. Read More >>

Things aren't going well for John McAfee right now. He's been hospitalised with an unconfirmed condition, and his request for asylum was turned down by Guatemala. But let's take a moment to look back at the bizarre path we took to get here through the bizarre-is-what-we-do lens of the NMA, the Taiwanese animation studio. Read More >>

The John McAfee circus came to a head last night when McAfee was finally arrested in Guatemala. Except uh, now he's blogging from a computer the Guatemalan police gave him in his jail cell. Read More >>

Most of us grew up believing that gravity is just the mass of two objects attracting each other. We probably still think that, really, since who spends their time reading up on gravity? Well, that's WRONG. Read More >>

You're in a doctor's surgery, about to get a heart test that could be all that stands between you and dropping dead during a sporting event. The doctor pulls out his iPhone, which is a little unprofessional, you think, let's get down to the — HOLY GOOD GOD HE'S USING IT TO RUN THE ACTUAL TEST??? Meet the Alivecor Heart Monitor iPhone case. Read More >>