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That's just one of the fairly amazing deals being offered this week at Target. There's still time to make your Super Bowl Sunday...superer! more

A feature about Barnes & Noble in the New York Times mentions the pending arrival of a fifth Nook device this spring. more

Is Search, Plus Your World designed to scare Facebook and Twitter to the negotiating table? more

A commentator on the Guardian suggests that "companies such as Facebook are the corporate world's equivalent of sociopaths." Might this be true? more

In the wake of some calls for an Apple boycott, it's worth noting that human-intensive mass production has faced problems with abysmal working conditions in just about every major industrial economy. more

Reporter Martha Teichner of the CBS News program "Sunday Morning" looks at Apple supplier Foxconn's labor practices (and Apple's response to the situation) in this video segment featuring industry insiders and observers. more

roundup The maker of iPads and iPhones is hardly alone among tech companies that rely heavily on Chinese factories under scrutiny for labor practices. But it's become the flashpoint. more

The Emotiva Pro airmotiv 4 may be the 'baby' in the line, but it's the best sounding desktop in its price class. more

CNET reporter Jay Greene, an avid skier, recently took two helmet cams up the mountain. See which one took his trophy for best job recording powdery pursuits: the GoPro HD Hero 2 Outdoor Edition or the Contour Roam. more

Startup Promethean Power had to ditch its dream of solar-powered milk chillers in rural India, but the company hit on a novel energy storage system that's cheaper and overcomes the unreliable grid. more

At issue is whether some of the titans of tech conspired not to hire each other's employees. Attorney Joe Saveri argues the alleged conspiracy kept workers salaries artificially low by stifling competition. more

Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitter's lawyer responds. more

Already have an iPhone? Pick up the tiny Pomera DM100 for text input and drop that expensive, bulky MacBook. more

We examine the end of the in-car CD player, our supposed hatred of Chevys, how to upgrade the head unit in your Prius and the need (or not) for Android in your dash. more

BMW says touch me, Ford takes mirrors high tech for quiet, the Chevy Volt is off the hook with the Feds, and how much would you pay for Obama's Chrysler 300? And we drive the Chrysler 300 SRT8. more

An interview with Microsoft's Bill Gates in The Telegraph is just the latest to show he and the late Steve Jobs had a strong relationship at the time of the Apple leader's death. more

BMW has revealed that it, too, has entered the self-driving car arena, inserting self-driving technology in a 5 Series car. more

Programmers using Google's mobile operating system must reckon with upfront work for the wide range of Android screens, but the benefit is flexibility. more

Google's latest charming doodle commemorates an event of which few might be aware: a 15-inch diameter snowflake that attacked Montana. more

High-resolution formats define the upper limit of quality, but if the recording's mix was overcompressed and processed, a lossless file won't sound great. more

Cartoony laptop bags, Legos in space, and a lost Jim Henson film. These are just a few of our favorites things from Crave this week. Catch up on all the news in our weekly roundup. more

Spotify is many things to many people, but one thing it lacks is an equalization feature for letting you adjust bands of bass, midrange, and treble. A plug-in called Equalify.me can fix that. more

We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple's supply chain that made that possible, in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly. more