The Flaming Lips to Livestream Epic 24-Hour Trip 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." ooVoo: 12-Way Video Calling Comes to Facebook and the iPad Skype and FaceTime might be the household names when it comes to video calling these days, but ooVoo doesn’t want that to be the case for much longer. Today the video chat service announced that it’s bringing its 12-way video calling feature — yes, you...
  How Tech Savvy Are Today's Dads? [INFOGRAPHIC] The blogging, Facebook updating, digitally hip mom has become a domestic trope these days. But what about dads? Ancient 'Iceman' Had Modern Ailments Scientists have sequenced the genome of the famed 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found frozen in the Alps in 1991 -- and discovered he had genetic vulnerability to heart disease, as well as Lyme disease.
  First Meteor Shower of 2012 Dazzles The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.
  Google's Moog Doodle: The Inside Story Why do Google Doodlers build the things they do? They're fans, that's why. When Google's Chief Doodler Ryan Germick and Google Engineer Joey Hurst decided they wanted to build the Google Moog Synthesizer Doodle, it was to "Pay tribute to someone who was like a patron saint of the nerdy arts," said Germick.
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