More retro in your metro: Now you can have Windows 8 and the classic Start menu

Need more retro in your metro?

Romney campaign disputes that its Orca project was a ‘fail whale’

After numerous articles criticized the Romney campaign’s “Orca” project as an IT meltdown, the digital director of the campaign pushed back and said the system mostly succeeded in recording votes and irregularities.

Build a better buggy: registration opens for NASA’s 20th annual moonbuggy race

Can you build a better mousetrap? Or, better yet, an improved moonbuggy?

Yet another dumb CNN voting stunt: Displaying electoral results via the Empire State Building

CNN has come up with several goofy ways of displaying information about the presidential elections, but none that are as gimmicky and dumb as its latest stunt.

How a CloudFlare network engineer fixed a Google outage last night

Yesterday Google went down for about 30 minutes ... until it was fixed by a network engineer who doesn't even work for Google.

How to find your polling place online

Today’s elections in the U.S. will likely lead to great consequences — no matter who is elected. But where to actually place your vote?

Shatoetry: An iPhone app for crafting custom William Shatner phrases

Believe it or not, there are some instances where mankind has produced some truly disgusting uses of technology -- disgustingly awesome, that is.

Mars Curiosity takes a Myspace-like selfie for researchers

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepared for a lot of variables when it sent Curiosity, the car sized rover, to Mars, but it didn't prepare for it to become a tween-aged girl on Myspace.

MIT, Harvard, & Stanford top list of 50 smartest colleges in America

“My college is smarter than your college!” While I can’t recall ever hearing this taunt, now might be that time with a new list from Lumosity that measures colleges by students’ cognitive performance.

Microsoft uses cute anime girls to sell Windows 8 in Japan

Microsoft is relying on the irresistible allure of anime to get Japanese consumers excited for Windows 8.

I’m sexy and I didn’t know it (or, How Tiptopio gets US manufacturers top ranking in Google)

I kind of feel like Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me as he's laying back on a couch, shirtless, displaying his abdominal pulchritude, saying "I'm dead sexy!"

Light show, anyone? Apple Stores start stocking $199 Philips Hue custom LED light kits

The Nest learning thermostats aren't the only smart device for the home available in Apple Stores. The retail chain will soon begin selling Philips' 'Hue' LED light bulb kits, which let you control the color of light in your rooms from your smart device.

Windows 8: NOT ‘baffling’, even a 3-year-old can master it!

Change-averse folk have expressed concerns that Windows 8, Microsoft’s new operating system targeted at consumers, will wreak havoc on their user interace.

Welcome home, Endeavor (time-lapse photography of Space Shuttle Endeavor’s last journey)

Space shuttle Endeavor is now home in L.A. A very special team of photographers and helper combined to take amazing high-res photography of its journey, which they released just a few days ago.

This search engine sequences the DNA of politics to determine whether you’re Republican or Democrat

"I think we've sequenced the DNA of Republicans and Democrats," Mintigo general manager and CMO Jason Garoutte told me today. "Based on words on someone's website, we'd have a very good chance of of determining who is a Democrat or a Republican."

Dear Minnesota, free online education is a good thing (yeah, really)

Coursera's slogan is "Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money." Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.

Hacker checks open government data: Do police officers have quotas for traffic tickets?

We've likely all wondered whether police officers have quotas for how many traffic tickets they issue. Big data to the rescue.