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If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore.

The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads.

When Valve's first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweeted back in February that she was fired from the company, we were disappointed but also intrigued by what she meant by "time for new exciting projects.

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

If we're to find a common thread in this week's collection of stories, it'd be nature's guiding hand.

We know that "where for are thou?" was in search of a different Shakespearean character, but if you had the same question for (Dell's) Ophelia, then the answer is July.

Sprint was clearly hungry for capacity when it bought spectrum from US Cellular last fall, and it's at last getting its fill -- some of it, at least -- by closing the deal today.

Even though we don't yet know what the PlayStation 4 looks like or how much it will cost, one of the many details revealed at Sony's February event was that games will be playable even as they download.

With much of its information obscured it's hard to say what Google has planned for this new device revealed by its FCC filing, but the model number at least indicates someone has a sense of humor.

There are plenty of wonderful things about train travel: the leg room, the scenery, the lack of security pat-downs.

Stitcher just announced a new car mode for its iPhone app, bringing a simplified interface that works in both portrait and landscape positions.