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Aug 11, 2012 7:00 PM   Torrenting, despite its many legitimate uses, has always had its reputation plagued by the rampant piracy it allows. Get ready for that all to get drudged up again because uTorrent, a very popular client, just announced it's getting ad-support. Ad-supported torrent clients aren't unheard of, but uTorrent is something of a giant in its field. With over 125 million active users per month, uTorrent is a juggernaut, so adding ads is probably going to make some serious dough. uTorrent already makes around $15 to $20 million with its optional tool bar, and uses that money to support parent company BitTorrent Inc. Built-in ad-support stands to seriously boost that number. Of course, uTorrent is a legal client and ad-support is a legal means of revenue, but considering the program is so widely used to pirate copyrighted material for free, you can bet this will make some waves. It does, after all, make torrenting seem a little more sketchy when it's making ...

If you frequently lug a laptop around, you know how horrible it is when your cables tangle into a homogenous mess. Aviiq's Ready Clips USB cables solve the problem with a nice bit of style. Portable, stylish USB cables with micro-USB, mini-USB, and Apple 30-pin connectors. The gadget fiend on the go. Sharp angles, a stiff charcoal-colored body, bright accent colors and pocket clips. Not your average cable. Slip them in a bag or pocket, and use them like any other USB cable. They don't tangle. Ever. They're too rigid. The same thing that makes these cables so great and non-tangly makes them maddening to use. The MicroUSB cable wouldn't fit the connector on the Sony RX100. The cable works with other devices, and the RX100 works with other MicroUSB cables. Bizarre. Used in various configurations with a MacBook Pro, iPhone, Mophie, mini Belkin power strip, and a Sony RX100 camera.Without a flat surface and 6-10 inches of room directly in front of whatever port you're ...

Jul 26, 2012 11:40 AM   They call it the Massive Ordnance Penetrator for a reason—and not because it's ready to star in a Pentagon porn flick. The MOP is massive, and designed to penetrate straight into someone's (Iran's) secret bunkers. Now it's ready. The GBU-57, the MOP's official designation, is a formidable piece of ordnance for the B-2 bomber: it's 20 feet long, 30,000 pounds, GPS-guided, and will drill straight through reinforced concrete before detonating 5,300 pounds of explosives. That should be enough to obliterate "hidden" underground nuclear facilities or weapon stockpiles—say, the kind our pals in Iran and Syria are skipping around in. The Air Force hopes stuffing an MOP down a bunker's gullet will be enough to destroy the whole complex—5,300 pounds is a lot of pounds—or, even better, deter foes from building these bunkers in the first place. The Pentagon hasn't said where it'll possibly use the bomb, because that much is ob...