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Seven years ago, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on Mars. Mired in 2009 after traveling nearly five miles across the Martian landscape and silent since March, Spirit's parking spot may be its final resting place.

Depicting skiers as gadgets of a kind, a resort's promotion reminds us of the clockwork appeal of toys, models, and virtual worlds.

What does the phenomenal success of this crowdfunded wristwatch case for the iPod Nano say about what people want from tech?

A BMW advertisement proves that subliminal advertising works best when its presence is revealed.

An international group of scientists proposes a "knowledge collider" to bring supercomputing to bear on social problems. While crunching the numbers won't be a problem, figuring out what they mean will prove more challenging.

During next week's CES, you'll rarely hear a single word about why you should really care about the devices debuting there... but is that really so surprising when even the electronics makers at CES can't answer as simple a question as why their gadgets matter?

Newsweek gives Julian Assange's "mansion arrest" the Martha Stewart treatment.

On the brink of 2011, peering out through circles within circles, reckoning changes to come.

Is the design world's embrace of domestic iconicity a harbinger of the coming Singularity?

Cassini's composite picture of the gas giant drives home what a vast, strange, and compelling world it is.