Bill Gates’ charity is offering people $100K grants to invent a next-generation condom #truestory

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a charitable organization that you've undoubtedly heard mentioned a few hundred times between news segments on NPR -- and probably the last group you'd think of when it comes to revolutionary condom inventions.

Google’s self-driving car has a pretty high opinion of itself

Google's self-driving car was on the U.C. Berkeley campus lately -- and the spot it chose to park was one usually reserved for highly intelligent humans.

Goats are trending, the Harlem Shake is done, and YouTube is now embedded in Google Trends

Shockingly, Rebecca Black searches spike every week on the day after Thursday and before Saturday.

ESPN teams with Kid President to grab digital March Madness fans (video)

Rather than be bummed out that CBS has exclusive rights to stream all the March Madness college basketball games this year, ESPN has enlisted the help of YouTube star Robbie Novak, aka Kid President.

Make a movie with Google: New Chrome experiment highlights Web Speech API

In the Peanut Gallery, you get to add intertitles to old black-and-white movies (the ones before any speech support, never mind the web). And you do it, of course, simply by talking to Chrome.

Funny or Die’s full-length Steve Jobs movie written and shot in 8 days, set for April 15 release

Anyone else who wants to make a Steve Jobs movie? Get in line and take a number.

Queen Elizabeth bestows royal honors on Internet pioneers

Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreesseen win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

3D-printed gun site Defense Distributed gets official with license to make & sell firearms

3D-printed gun site Defense Distributed has obtained a federal license to manufacture and sell firearms,

Raspberry Pi-powered open-source bartending robot nearly funded on Kickstarter

Who wouldn't want a Raspbery Pi-powered open source bartending that you control with your phone or tablet?

BringGoogleReaderBack.com and KeepGoogleReader.com beg Google to reconsider killing Reader

The great thing about geeks is that they are smart, fast, and have the power to create stuff instantly.

Kickstarter for T-shirts: CollegeHumor and Vimeo founder Josh Abramson launching social T-shirts

So why start yet another T-shirt website? Apparently, to make T-shirt buying a social event, or even a cause.

Twitter adds line breaks; brace yourself for insane ASCII art

With this update of Twitter's own making, tweets which look interesting and sensible on Twitter.com will look completely stupid and odd (see Twitter's own embedded tweet) on any other platform.

One thing tablets are not so good at …

Your iPad or Android tablet is really good at a lot of things, but for some things, paper just can't be replaced, as one French company hilariously illustrates in this ad:

The truth about SXSW by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler (exclusive)

For South by Southwest, it's kind of ridiculous that companies spent gobs of money on promotional materials, free booze, fancy parties, and advertising -- and all of it was pretty much secondary to show-stealing meme kitty Grumpy Cat.

Kim Dotcom’s giant floating head speaks out against Hollywood & the feds at SXSW

Kim Dotcom is the poster child for why the current set of copyright laws have gone horribly wrong, so naturally he made his way to the South by Southwest interactive show -- sort of.

Technical glitch knocks Bitcoin prices down 23%, now trading at $43

It's hard out there for a virtual currency. Bitcoin prices dropped 23 percent Monday night after a glitch eroded some confidence, but prices have since gone back up.

Seattle bar bans Google Glass to prevent invasion of privacy (and ugly eyewear)

A Seattle bar has banned patrons from wearing Google Glass inside.