Facebook this week was awarded a patent pertaining to streaming “feed” technology — more specifically, “dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network,” complementing another patent filing that has been published but not yet approved.

Netflix is cruising. The cable guys are catching on. Wal-Mart just rumbled in.

On January 19, a team of at least 15 people assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Dubai police released video footage of 11 of them. Although it was obviously a very professional operation, the 27 minutes of video is fascinating in its banality.

Say the words “tablet computer” and ten bucks says it’s Apple’s iPad that springs to mind. But that doesn’t mean other companies aren’t busy building their own version of a touch-enabled, multimedia-sporting, slab of portable computing goodness.

Mark Knichel’s e-mail in-box is a funky grid of color.

It turns out Apple isn’t the only company readying a touch-screen tablet computer.

Two teams of explorers and scientists are on their way to the Arctic for the first international project to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in water beneath the ice.

It was a record-breaking performance that slowed taxi traffic across Seoul on Wednesday when figure-skating darling Kim Yu-na took to the ice in Vancouver at the Winter Olympic Games.

Becki Coats was embarrassed, so embarrassed that she didn’t want to show pictures of herself with her new grandchild.

Ever wonder who designs those illustrations that transform the Google.com logo on holidays and other special occasions such as the Vancouver Winter Olympics? The lead artist talks about the process.