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YouTube has partnered with MGM to stream feature length films and TV shows. The selection is far from Hulu quality, but the deal certainly won't hurt YouTube's still frigid relationship with the rest of Hollywood.

T-Mobile and Google has reached out to AOL for a little G1 mobile phone promoting. How's a billion ad impressions across various AOL sites spread out over two whole days for the low, low price of $1.5 million sound?

Apple received a double dose of good news yesterday. First, a Square Trade study found that iPhones are twice as reliable as Blackberries. Then, the iPhone replaced Motorola's RAZR as the top selling mobile phone in the U.S.

A week after closing 155 stores and laying off 17 percent of its workforce, Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy. To help dig itself out of its financial hole, the company took out a $1.1 billion loan so it could stay open and keep not doing much business.

Hyperion Power Generation has developed a mini nuclear reactor that could revolutionize how people view and consume energy. Just to be safe, does anyone know how I can in touch with Vault-Tec?

Intel is testing its own personalized health monitoring technology. Unlike Microsoft's online health record platform, Intel's faux-computer kit also lets users interact with doctors via a web cam and a touchscreen interface. Now you can finally tell people that all that web stripping you do is strictly for medical purposes.

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Yahoo may have lost out on its ad deal with Google, and its stock is still tumbling, but that's not stopping them from continuing to court Microsoft. Maybe now that Microsoft has issued quite a blunt statement that they aren't interested in buying Yahoo, they will stop trying to sell.

Microsoft says it wants to have Windows 7 out by the end of next year. But you might want to wait until it's actually running on your PC before believing anything they say about release dates.

Hoping to curb prostitution on its site, Craigslist will start charging people to post ads in its "erotic services" section and requiring payment via credit card to ensure proper identification. Great. Just what I need. Another secret credit card.

Development team Smule has a new iPhone app called Ocarina that lets you create your own songs and listen to other users from around the world. You'd better hold on to something, preferably your iPhone, because you're about to be blown away.

Apple has revealed that it will finally be delivering wireless tethering soon. Since you don't have to worry about that anymore, now you can start worrying about whether AT&T's 3G network can support the added strain or if it will simply melt.

YouTube is negotiating with a major movie studio to bring ad-supported feature films to its site. Still no word yet on the big-budget remake of "People reacting to 2 Girls 1 Cup."

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Google has withdrawn from its advertising deal with Yahoo. Where the move leaves Yahoo in terms of possible deals with other companies, mainly Microsoft, is anyone's guess.

After several months of campaigning, mostly on the part of Google's Free the Airwaves initiative, the FCC has approved the use of white space in the TV spectrum for Wi-Fi.

Microsoft's new BizSpark program offers fledgling startups access to a host of Microsoft applications and services. If your company happens to use only Macs, you might want to avoid mentioning it during the application process.

The FCC also made Verizon Wireless very happy this week by approving the company's bid to buyout fellow service provider Altell Wireless. The buyout will make Verizon the largest carrier in the country, just ahead of AT&T.

In case you didn't know, Tuesday's presidential election was kind of a big deal. So big in fact that Internet traffic to news sites hit an all-time high.

With the help of a bunch of HD cameras, more than a dozen computers and a fair amount of the Force, CNN successfully debuted its impressive hologram technology during Tuesday night's election coverage. The Blitzer is strong with this one.

Ever been in the middle of an excruciatingly boring or uncomfortable conversation and wished someone would call you to give you an excuse to get the hell out of there? Well, thanks to the Fake Calls iPhone app, you'll never have to rely on your friends to bail you out ever again.

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An advertising deal between Google and Yahoo has been revised and resubmitted to the Justice Department. Now we're just waiting to see if the deal goes through, and when exactly Yahoogle officially becomes supreme ruler of us all.

Thin sheets made out of carbon nanotubes is one thing. But thin sheets made out of carbon nanotubes that work as speakers? That's preposterous and awesome.

Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and former Apple CEO in the making, has stepped down but will stay on as a personal adviser to Steve Jobs. Maybe he can advise Jobs to buy a different color turtleneck.

Netflix plans to stop selling used DVDs and instead focus all of its attention to bringing its online streaming video service to every single electronic device in the world.

Are you tired of products that come in hard plastic shells? Wish somebody would just get rid of those stubborn hard-plastic cases that everything seems to be packaged in these days? Well, somebody did. Introducing Amazon's new Frustration-Free Packaging. If you want to share your unwrapping horror stories, check out Amazon's Gallery of Wrap Rage.

Video game publisher THQ plans to close at least five development studios and issue staff cuts at several others. Desperate staffers issued the following statement, "Up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A."

Herman Miller has designed a $1600 chair that features such revolutionary elements as a seat, a back and armrests...Oh, and a bunch of features that apparently make it one of the most comfortable chairs ever.

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MTV Networks has partnered with Auditude to embed ads into videos illegally uploaded by MySpace users. The program seems like a good idea, but not everyone is convinced.

If you're a Netflix subscriber but you don't own an Xbox 360, a PC or a Mac, but you do own a TiVo, congratulations. You'll soon be able to stream movies and TV shows too.

Panasonic may or may not be planning to buy Sanyo sometime soon. It's been rumored for a while, but since neither side is offering many details, we'll just have to wait this one out.

Ever wished your appliances could just think for themselves and in the process lower your electric bills and save the environment? Well, General Electric has you covered.

Could the U.S. military be working on an unstoppable, memory-zapping super beam? Probably not, but they are very interested in the technology. (With a name like amnesia ray, who wouldn't be interested?)

Circuit City has announced that it will close 155 stores, cut 17 percent of its workforce, and they could even be kicked off the New York Stock Exchange. I guess the silver lining would be that there were 155 stores to close.

For two weeks, two robots were locked in a room and made sweet, sweet music together...No really. That's exactly what they did. And the result is absolutely terrifying.

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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have joined the Global Network Initiative, a worldwide coalition formed to protect freedom of expression and privacy online. It certainly sounds like a noble enough cause, but Amnesty International doesn't seem to think so.

Australia plans to force all local Internet service providers to filter out objectionable material. And while there was talk of letting all you kiddie-porn lovers opt-out of the program, that might not be the case.

RSA's annual survey has found that London is the Wi-Fi captial of the world, with over 12,000 wireless access points.

A British company has developed a bombproof trashcan that also displays news and travel information via LCD screens. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's about time.

Electronic Arts says it will cut around 600 jobs after a disappointing financial quarter. The tech industry also continues to see widespread layoffs.

Microsoft has apparently stationed a "I'm a PC" kiosk in front of an Apple store in England. Visitors can use the booth to make their own pro-PC ad and then buy an iPhone. Everyone wins.

Time Magazine has announced its top 50 inventions of 2008. 23andMe's personal gene-testing kit topped the list, followed by 49 other insanely cool inventions that you should check out immediately.

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Earlier in the week Microsoft announced its new web-based OS, Azure at the Professional Developers Conference. Now, the company has revealed that the next release of Office will include browser-based versions of several of its most popular applications.

Several publications have had a chance to test out the upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard update, aptly named the New Xbox Experience, and lucky for you, they want to tell you what they think. And for those who subscribe to both Xbox Live and Netflix, you're in for a real treat.

MTV has launched its new music video mega-site, MTV Music. I know it's a little strange to associate music videos with MTV, but the two seem to have some sort of history together, so you might want to check it out.

The Christian Science Monitor has become the first major newspaper to focus almost entirely on publishing online. They will still put out a weekly magazine, but the physical newspaper part is history.

World of Warcraft now has over 11 million subscribers worldwide. Most real-world countries don't have populations that large. Want to see where WOW falls on the list?

A train line in Britain has started using a special window coating on several carriages to prevent passengers from using cell phones and bothering fellow travelers...or calling for help during an emergency.

It might be totally unnecessary and a huge waste of $600, but Super Talent Technology's new 18K gold USB drive is...well...it's a golden USB drive.

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Google has released an iPhone and iPod Touch version of its Google Earth application. Travel around the world, see the sights and make international dinner reservations all from the palm of your hand. Sweet deal.

If you're a Mac user and a Netflix subscriber, chances are you know that you aren't able to watch streaming video from the rental service's site. Looks like that's about to change thanks to Microsoft.

Are you tired of having to sit through an entire YouTube video just to get to the good parts? Well, thanks to a new feature, you can now save everyone precious time and direct them to specific parts of videos.

For the first time, Microsoft has given a select group of developers access to the SDK for its multi-touch, multi-user display technology Surface. Hopefully, one of them uses it to built that interactive display from Minority Report. That would be sweet.

Engineers from Toyota and the University of Tokyo have developed a robot maid. I don't have anything else to say about it other than it's about time.

Undeterred by or unaware of the world's economic collapse, Motorola reveals its new $2,000 Aura cell phone.

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Oprah wants the world to share in her love for Amazon's Kindle e-reader by giving everyone a $50 discount when they buy one between now and November 1. Can you guess what the promotion code is?

The U.S. government is recruiting engineers to develop technology that would allow packs of robots to track and find humans who don't want to be found. It might not help, but you should probably start hiding now.

Ericsson was able to reach mobile network speeds of over 100 Mbps with its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Enjoy your 3G network suckers.

Thirty-million Internet users have fallen for anti-virus protection scams, and since we aren't getting any smarter, don't expect that number to drop anytime soon.

Princeton University researchers have discovered major security flaws with certain e-voting machines manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems. Good thing there isn't a major election coming up anytime soon.

If you've managed to stave off complete economic collapse, the time has never been better for finding great deals on new HDTVs.

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Yahoo has announced that it will cut roughly 1500 jobs by the end of the year. To get the full effect, check out the official memo sent out to inform employees of the firings.

Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance during Apple's quarterly earnings report to analysts. For those of you who prefer looking at numbers, this story has you covered.

Google releases the source code for its Android mobile operating system.

Wal-Mart quietly launches its new DRM-free MP3 site. Despite early reports, you'll still be able to activate any DRM-protected music previously downloaded from the site.

YouTube may or may not be launching a new streaming video service at next month's "YouTube Live!" event.

Microsoft engineers working on an application for its multi-touch Surface device that can tell a bartender the exact moment you need a refill. Next step: a program that counterbalances beer goggles.

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Motorola plans to release its own Google Android cell phone sometime next year. Next step: attracting a carrier.

Yahoo is expected to announce major layoffs this week. Want to know how they could "screw it up"?

Microsoft's patent for a technology that can (bleep) censor streaming audio has been (bleep) approved.

Apple releases a batch of new ads mocking Microsoft's $300 million ad campaign. In their defense, there is no "Apple" in "hypocrite."

If you love sharing witty and insightful comments with friends while watching TV, then CBS has just the thing for you...you know, after you've driven away all of your friends because you never shut up when you watch shows.

Are you an Internet-based record label who thinks posting free music on your site is fine as long as it's from your own bands? Then you need to read this story immediately.

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Android cell phone reviews have started popping up around the Net. Does the iPhone finally have serious competition or is its crown safe for a while longer?

Curious about which tech companies are firing people? Tech Crunch's Layoff Tracker will keep you informed and depressed.

Tesla Motors employees seriously didn't get the memo and had to find out they were being fired by reading a blog post.

Aegis Mobile has developed a new technology that prevents people from calling you when you're driving...or when you throw your phone 30 mph.

Hewlett-Packard plans to release a new touch screen laptop by the end of the year.

Sony has pushed back the release of the highly anticipated PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet after Koranic references were found in the soundtrack.

You know how you've always felt bad that astronauts aren't able to drink freshly brewed coffee in space? Well, worry no more.

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Microsoft reveals the name of its next Windows OS. Here's a hint: it's the SEVENth version.

Popular Mechanics announces the winners of its Breakthrough Awards for the best gagdets and technologies of the year.

Do you love Rock Band but wish you could sync up a fog machine and put on a killer light show while you play? If so, Performance Designed Products has you covered.

Apple unveils its new line of MacBooks. While the redesign and technical improvements are impressive, it's the price that could have the most impact on sales.

Researchers have found a way to store 500,000 gigabytes of data on a chip small enough to fit in an iPod nano. And you thought your were going to have to keep those 127 million songs on your hard-drives forever.

I knew there were a lot of pictures on Facebook, but 10 billion? Isn't that just outrageous?

YouTube and PBS have teamed up to create an online database for users to upload videos of their experiences on Election Day.

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MySpace's new ad service MyAd gives advertisers tons of options for finding precisely the right audience. Strangely, it lacks a "Facebook user" category.

The FCC finds no technical reason why free nationwide wireless Internet access can't work with existing wireless networks.

Mozilla plans to roll out an alpha version of its mobile Firefox browser on Nokia's N810 Internet tablet sometime next week.

You know that old artificial intelligence test that assesses whether a robot can pass as a human? Well, this text-based bot came really close to being the first robot to pass it. (Quick. Congratulate the robot before he enslaves us all.)

A company called Runtriz has designed an iPhone application that gives hotel guests total control over every aspect of their vistit. And no, you can't use it to discreetly order adult movies.

Commercially available jet-packs might still be a ways off, but at least we all can stop taking off our shoes at the airport. Thank you MagShoe.

Having trouble keeping elephants from raiding your crops? Check out this texting-based security system.

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