In a nearly 30 year career, the Flaming Lips have never adhered to conventional wisdom. In a truly epic performance this summer, the band will continue pushing boundaries and searching for what singer Wayne Coyne refers to as “absurd…

Google’s doodle is already up in timezones where it’s Wednesday, and it’s awesome. It’s a working Moog (synthesizer) that has working keys and filters. So check out Google Ireland, and play with it. (Via @lorcanrk) Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook…

Microsoft has been going into very exacting detail as to how Windows 8 works, but one area it hasn’t explored much is what happens before you even see the Start screen. As user experience manager Chris Clark notes, the days of mashing F8 repeatedly to reach a pre-boot configuration are (mostly) over: you can invoke it either through an “advanced startup” in settings, through Start menu shortcuts or, if your PC is truly sick, let it show automatically…

Four out of five of the top brands in the world are technology brands, according to a review of the top global brands released Tuesday. The report valued the Apple, IBM, Google, and Microsoft brands at a combined half-trillion dollars…

Give me that Old Time Zeppelin The first time you see Eureka, it’s hard not to think of the Hindenberg era. (Of course, they are powered by completely different gases — helium, not hydrogen)Click here to view this gallery…

We love finding out how things work, and arguably one of the most important parts of the smartphones and tablets we thrive on is the accelerometer gauging our device’s orientation. Imagine our delight, then, when we see the University of Illinois’ Bill Hammack (i…

Facebook is learning that money and fame cannot buy you everything. The social network has been thwarted in its aggressive pursuit to sue any company that uses “book” or “face” in its domain name, most recently against a porn site in Norway…

Facebook’s initial public offering is believed to have created as many as 1,000 new millionaires Friday, many of them employees who helped build the world’s largest social network. Now that the company is public, Facebook’s biggest challenge may be making sure it doesn’t have an exodus of talent…

If you’re someone who thinks gamification is just a fad, you may want to look away now. To be clear, Bunchball isn’t just jumping on the latest buzzword. The company was founded to deliver gamification tools all the way back in 2005 — founder and Chief Product Officer Rajat Paharia has told me that he probably came to the market too early, and has had to keep the company alive while the industry caught up…

Days after giving London soccer club Chelsea its first ever Champions League title with a stunning penalty kick, star player Didier Drogba used YouTube to let fans down easy and tell them he’ll leave the team this summer…

They may not be “robots” as most have come to expect, but these so-called microrobots developed by a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa do have at least one thing in common with many of their mechanical counterparts: lasers…

It’s incredibly rare that I run across a technology that could improve economic efficiency, better the environment, and improve quality of life for many. Car2Go hits that trifecta. For urban areas, individual ownership of cars is wasteful…