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An Amazon employee sorts packages in Arizona: The online retailing giant's deep discounts may be problematic to its bottom line.

How long can Amazon go without making money?

The online retailer posts a loss for the third quarter, but investors are utterly unfazed by the company's consistently poor earnings

 
D.B. Grady

D.B. Grady: The amazing triumph of Windows 8

Eat your heart out, Apple: Windows 8 is a vision of computing that is not only thoroughly re-imagined, but in many ways superior to anything else out there

 
Pet-Proto, the military's human-like robot, navigates a pit of potential danger in an obstacle course.

Pet-Proto: The U.S. military's clumsy humanoid rescue robot

DARPA wants its next generation of machines to run, jump, and climb like ninjas, but they're not quite there yet

 
The odds are, you are not being clever with your password.

The 25 worst passwords of 2012

Leading the way are "password" and "123456," but "ninja" and "jesus" are gaining ground

 
Power your iPhone with a T-shirt that turns vibrations from concert music into an electrical charge. No T-shirt? Try your heartbeat.

9 strange ways to power your cellphone [Updated]

From T-shirts to wind power to a special pan, researchers are coming up with some inventive ways to make sure your iPhone never goes dead

 
Facebook's nascent mobile advertising strategy allows ads to go right into users news feeds.

Has Facebook finally entered the smartphone era?

The social network is having its best day ever on the stock market, after reporting new revenue from mobile ads

 
The new iPad Mini and the fourth-generation iPad: The new diminutive tablet may prove too pricey for consumers who don't think the Mini is different enough from the competition to warrant paying more.

Is the iPad Mini too expensive?

Apple's tinier tablet starts at $329 — a full $130 more than Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7

 
Microsoft's Surface tablet boasts a (sold-separately) keyboard flap that turns the slab into a laptop of sorts.

Microsoft's Surface tablet: Finally, a worthy alternative to the iPad?

The venerable tech company goes all in with its new keyboard-equipped, Windows-powered slab

 
Behold: Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller introduces the iPad Mini on Oct. 23.

Everything you need to know about Apple's iPad Mini event

Tim Cook and Co. pull the curtains off a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, a razor-thin iMac, and a little tablet you may have heard about...

 
Jeff Bezos' rocket makes a successful launch on Oct. 19.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' next conquest: Outer space?

The billionaire's secretive aerospace company, Blue Origin, tests a new pusher rocket system

 
The California Theater is decorated for the endlessly hyped Apple iPad Mini event in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 23.

Apple's iPad Mini event: Live-blogging the reactions

Real-time curation and analysis from The Week's Chris Gayomali

 
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The latest tweets about Apple's iPad Mini event

Real-time, unfiltered commentary from the world at large

 
Windows 8 includes the option of appearing as a tile grid, which is based on the interface of Windows Phones.

Is Windows 8 worth the upgrade?

Microsoft's next-generation operating system goes on sale this Friday

 
The latest full-size iPad (pictured) boasts a Retina display, but the rumored iPad mini may not be robust enough to support the same screen.

Apple's iPad Mini: 7 rumored features [Updated]

The iPhone 5 is so yesterday's news. Now, tech fanatics are leaking details about a new portable, budget-edition tablet. And it'll be here on Tuesday

 
After its mother's efforts failed, a baby elephant trapped in a well is rescued by some determined humans.

The week's best of the internet

The 11 best memes, videos, gifs, and games to emerge from the great digital playground — from "Menacing Josh Romney" to an adorable elephant rescue

 
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