Steve Perlman is ready to give you a personal cell phone signal that follows you from place to place, a signal that’s about 1,000 times faster than what you have today because you needn’t share it with anyone else. Perlman — the iconic Silicon Valley inventor best known for selling his web TV company to Microsoft …

This is Pimp My Ride: Hoth Edition.

A San Francisco dry cleaning shop gets a rockstar branding.

It’s been almost exactly one year since a bolide exploded in the air over Chelyabinsk in Russia. Just in time for the anniversary comes asteroid 2000 EM26, which will be giving our planet a close shave today. The Slooh space camera consortium will be tracking this cosmic flyby during a live show starting at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET.

Harmonix is working on a free-to-play, musical first-person shooter called Chroma.

This image of the debris of an exploded star – known as supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, or “E0102” for short – features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. E0102 is located about 190,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. It was created when a star that was much more massive than the Sun exploded, an event that would have been visible from the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth over 1000 years ago.

In the latest installment of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, author Jeff VanderMeer talks about the weirdness in his work.

The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky over 10 times as wide as the full moon, and eight times as high (5.5 x 3.9 degrees), in the constellation Cassiopeia.

This is about more than an issue of gadget etiquette or a lack of consideration for others; it’s about connection. While our electronic gadgetry is keeping us more connected in some ways, it is a shallow connection because applications are set up for the splitting of attention.

Here’s a shortcut that makes the ongoing Mail retrieval bug in OS X Mavericks slightly less annoying.