A decent cup of coffee is undoubtedly one of life’s simple pleasures. We have found nine nifty gadgets that will make sure you get your caffeine fix whether you’re stuck at your desk, out in your car or even half way up a mountain SEE ALSO: 7 Superb Gadgets to Encourage You to Eat More Fruit Take a look through our top selection of java-makers in the gallery above…

With Google Reader about to meet its maker, Digg decided to make the ultimate replacement. That was two months ago—and Wired has the inside track of exactly how the project has come together since then…

Adobe’s shift to cloud-based software provision for its new Creative Cloud design suite was partly motivated by anti-piracy concerns. Which, of course, means… it’s already been pirated.Read more…

Looking for creative content that is also free can be taxing. And when overused, Creative Commons becomes a bore of stock photos and MIDI jingles. Especially when it comes to fair use music, sometimes you just want something more refined and less 8-bit…

A leaked Samsung user manual seems to suggest that there’s a Galaxy S4 variant on the horizon which will pack the new Snapdragon 800 chip. Speedy. Read more…

In the past couple of weeks, the NSA has, unsurprisingly, responded with a series of secret briefings to Congress that have left the public in the dark and vulnerable to misstatements and word games. Congress has many options at its disposal, but for true accountability any response must start with a special investigative committee…

LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday night The issue, which is now resolved for most users, rerouted the traffic to a domain sales page…

Bambuser, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage of major events — be they political uprisings, bombings or a star sighting — is today announcing another step along the route to becoming a part and parcel of the traditional media world…

One day before rival Facebook is rumored to announce a Vine competitor, employees of Twitter’s video-sharing service teased several of its new features. Co-founders Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov tweeted out Vine videos on Wednesday that gave an early look at the app’s upcoming design changes…

This is an American blog, but I am a British blogger. That naturally causes occasional tensions, especially when it comes to spelling. And the biggest issue? Math or maths.Read more…

Just because Qualcomm’s gone to plaid (aka. reached ludicrous speed) with its Snapdragon 800 flagship doesn’t mean the company’s been standing still at the other end of the market. The Snapdragon 200 family just received a major boost with the introduction of six new chips geared at China and other emerging markets…

James Gandolfini, the 51-year-old former construction worker behind arguably the greatest performance in television history, died on Wednesday of a suspected heart attack. HBO confirmed the news shortly after initial reports broke…

Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox. “A small team has been working on a big idea,” it read…

Andrew W.K., the man known for his music but also for his crazy affinity for partying, is playing drums right now. He’s been doing it for the last 8 hours or so, and he plans to continue doing it for the next 16 hours Can he pull it off? Well, staying up all night is no problem for Andrew, but playing the drums for an entire day, that’s a wee bit more difficult Get More: O Music Awards Andrew is not alone in his endeavor, though — he’s got a bunch of special guests to help him out, including Marky Ramone, Liberty DeVitto, Chad Smith, Nick Jonas and Zac Hanson…

Netflix’s first foray into the horror genre seems to have gone well, as the company announced it’s renewing Hemlock Grove for a second season. The 10 episode run will debut next year, presumably after fellow Netflix Originals Lilyhammer (later this year) and House of Cards (currently in production) make their second run through the gauntlet…

Dolphin has done a pretty fine job when it comes to keeping its browser loaded with plenty of handy features, both on Android and iOS. Now, the Dolphin’s hit version 10 for Android, bringing along an array of things including a revamped user interface, drag-and-drop support for speed dials on the home screen, additional swipe-based gestures and a new store for web-based applications…

Samsung told us to expect its 55-inch OLED TV sometime in July, but there’s now a chance that South Koreans will get an early look. Yonhap News Agency hears through tipsters that the premium set could ship to Samsung’s homeland next week, with a price somewhere north of 10 million won ($8,840)…

Turns out, Best In Show wasn’t that much of a stretch. Read more…

Sick of endless patent wars yet? According to the New York Times, so is the Federal Trade Commission. Referencing the usual persons briefed on the matter, the NYT reports that FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez is preparing to propose an inquiry that will put patent-assertion entities — companies that exist solely to buy and collect royalties on patents — under federal scrutiny…

James Gandolfini, a terrific actor and by all accounts, a great guy, passed away today after suffering a heart attack. That’s unimaginably sad news for his family, for his friends, for his fans, for acting and for anyone who hates to see good people taken away too soon…

Chalk up one more reason to check out Windows 8.1 Preview when it becomes available on June 26th. Today, Microsoft announced that it’ll pay up to $100,000 in cash to those who discover and report novel security exploits within its latest OS revision, along with up to $50,000 in bonus loot for defensive suggestions that relate to the attack…

Canada’s controversial Concealment of Identity Act banning the wearing of masks during riots and “unlawful assemblies” has just gone into law, carrying with it a 10-year maximum sentence, reports CBC News…

App.net co-founder Bryan Berg noticed that LinkedIn was DNS hijacked tonight, and that traffic was re-routed to a shady India-based site, http://www.confluence-networks.com. That’s bad for LinkedIn, but there’s worse news for you…

LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to “a DNS issue.” Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue, and we’re continuing to work on it…

There are two ways most teenage fellas try to attract the ladies: play sports or play music. If you play one, you’re probably doing alright. If you play both, you’re probably doing quite well. But if you play both at the same damn time? That’s next level, right there SEE ALSO: U…

You know how science can be brain-oozingly amazing? Like curing Autism, inventing Star Trek warp drive, lifespan doubling amazing. Yeah this is the opposite of that. This short video shows you nine horrifically disturbing scientific facts that will make you realize how many hairs you have on the back of your neck…

Google likely sees more data than any company on the planet. And that obsession carries through to hiring and management, where every decision and practice is endlessly studied and analyzed. In an interview with The New York Times’ Adam Bryant, Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations Laszlo Bock explains that some of the biggest stalwarts of the hiring and recruiting world, the interview, GPA, and test scores, aren’t nearly as important as people think…

Rich Roth is VP of Strategic Innovation at Dignity Health. [Editor’s note: VentureBeat selected Dignity Health to speak at our HealthBeat event last month because of their unique model; we asked them to follow up on their talk with this look at how an ‘open source’ model can speed up innovation in health care…

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Google product listing ads can make the world’s largest search engine your store, by uploading your products, setting pricing, and letting the magic of the internet happen…

With Man of Steel in theaters and doing monumental box office numbers, the film has quickly become the hottest commodity of the summer. Reviews for the film have been generally positive, but there’s also been plenty of criticism…