Instead of the typical eye-rolling one-liner, three self-described nerds use their knowledge of video games in flirtations with random women. Is it game over or game on? [Read more] … Read more »

The company says, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, that Verizon would receive an “excessive concentration” of wireless spectrum in the deal. [Read more] … Read more »

A new lawsuit against Apple says its visual voice mail feature is infringing on someone else’s patents. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. [Read more] … Read more »

The draft of the federal budget for 2013 takes an ax to the rival Global Hawk program. An Air Force general says the U-2, a design that dates to the 1950s, is “the stronger system.” [Read more] … Read more »

During one's bustling, workaday life there are a collection of moments — fragments out of time — that afford one a sense of slow-down reflection. Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich challenge readers to those moments, instead of fiddling around with one's phone. … Read more »

Apple released Mountain Lion to developers last week, a new operating system that will make your desktop computer work more like your phone than ever before. … Read more »

PARIS  - Theories that men will eventually become extinct because the Y chromosome which determines maleness is shrinking are quite wrong, according to a gene study published on Wednesday. … Read more »

Ventricular arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat, occurs most frequently after waking in the morning — and also to a lesser degree in the evening hours — and causes a high number of deaths. Reporting in the journal Nature, researchers in the United States said they had uncovered the first molecular link between this risk and circadian rhythm, the term by which biological processes vary according to a 24-hour period. … Read more »

SHANGHAI – A trademark dispute between Apple and a Chinese computer maker moved to Shanghai Wednesday, where the debt-laden plaintiff is seeking to stop the sale of the US giant’s iconic iPad. … Read more »

SHANGHAI – A Chinese computer maker on Wednesday asked a Shanghai court to bar the sale of Apple’s iconic iPad in the commercial metropolis in a long-running trademark dispute. … Read more »