What's the difference between Germany and Mark Zuckerberg? One has a history of soulless spying and forcing your friends to rat on you. The other is a country.

In 2006 the European Union decided it had enough of the US being the only country out to destroy privacy completely and passed a resolution requiring all its member countries to pass laws requiring that their ISPs retain every email, phone conversation, and related piece of data -- in other words anything people might use to communicate -- for all eternity.

We are masters of subtlety.

The world's biggest IT fair, CeBIT, is taking place in Hannover, Germany, this week with over 4,200 exhibitors participating, including tech titans like Google and Microsoft.

Awww, guys, don't fight.

[via]Despite what the documentary found footage in Jurassic Park may have taught you, dinosaurs probably couldn't run (see the dream-crushing studies here, here, and here).

The original Star Trek television series didn't have a huge amount of money to spend on things like make-up, costumes and sets, but the producers never let that stop them from squeezing out that week's episode.

Jörg Sprave of The Slingshot Channel is back with another slingshot, a pump action crossbow.

Earlier this month, car enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Frankfurt, Germany for the biennial Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, AKA the Frankfurt Motor Show.