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When Michael Newman was a little kid, he liked to draw new video game levels. Quite literally, the obsessive tinkerer is still doing so, but judging by the Video Game Sans Video project he demoed at the 2013 Maker Faire, his pursuits are anything but juvenile.

Ever watch one of those juice infomercials that feature some self-created celebrity whirring blueberries in a blender? And did you believe, as they scraped all that fruit into a shoot, that this speaker was actually an authority on their subject?

Everyone and everything is a brand, especially online.

When Sony announced the PlayStation 4 in February, any images of the console itself were notably absent.

The rumors have finally been put to rest — Yahoo acquired Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion Monday morning.

If you made it through the three Star Wars prequel movies, to the end of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, you'll recall the sense of excitement in the final few shots.

Even the most social-savvy business owners can get caught up in the numbers game: counting and recounting likes, followers, fans, retweets, shares.

Taylor Swift often publicly airs her grievances when it comes to ex-boyfriends, but apparently the singer is also OK with showing the world how she feels about her friends' old flames

At Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, Swift saw best friend Selena Gomez getting a kiss on the check from on-and-off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber.

A little something extra is now arriving on the iPads of Esquire subscribers every week.

The monthly men's lifestyle magazine launched a weekly, ad-supported edition dubbed Esquire Weekly, which will be automatically delivered to tablet subscribers at no additional charge.

WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg claims the platform saw an unusually high number of imported posts from Tumblr Sunday night, perhaps an early indication that some are looking to flee in light of the pending Yahoo acquisition

Mullenweg (pictured) wrote on his blog that WordPress received 72,000 imports during one hour on Sunday, versus the usual 400 to 600 posts.

A massive storm generated several tornadoes on Sunday in the Midwest, hitting Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.