The Woo WA-234 Mono is two amps in one, it’s an astonishingly good headphone amp, and it’s just as remarkable with speakers!……

Samsung has new Samsung Experience Shops in Best Buy stores and recent statements by a Samsung leader indicate they may be investing more in Best Buy soon…….

Reader dryriver recommends a BBC report on the immense scale of the web-monitoring system in place in China. An excerpt: “More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet. The Beijing News…

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner captures the beauty of basic scientific principles, using sound waves, feral liquid, and magnets to create art…….

Lots of U.S. government agencies’ websites are partly or fully shut down, many of them with messages like this one, from the front page of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory: “Effective 7 p.m. EDT, Friday, 4 October 2013, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) temporarily suspended all US operations because of the US Federal government…

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Emily Badger writes at the Atlantic that it’s not too hard to build a tornado proof home but it’s pretty difficult to design one that’s liveable. “If you made a perfect earthquake structure, it would be a bunker with 24-inch walls and one small steel door for you to get…

A Texas Instruments ARM-based chip means hardware hackers who like Arduino will have another choice besides Intel’s Quark for computing projects…….

Twitter wants to be more than a busy town square with targeted ads dropped into the flow of tweets. The company aspires to reach Facebook heights…….

Practice prangs left UK’s only entry too much to fix in too little time……

For the Pyro Spectacular team that put on a recent ‘Star Wars’ themed fireworks show at the Oakland Coliseum, it’s a dangerous all-day job to put together a 15-minute show. CNET got the inside scoop…….