The Guardian receives shadowy threats from the U.K. Government
The Guardian is reporting perhaps the strangest and yet most sinister twist yet in the ongoing NSA surveillance scandal surrounding Edward Snowden. The newspaper says it received shadowy threats from...
View ArticleChina unblocks Facebook for a select few
China reportedly plans to lift its ban on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. But it's not a massive sea change for the secretive nation, which is still as concerned as ever about...
View ArticleYouTube wants to get rid of nasty comments
If you ever wanted to find a place on the Internet that's full of unashamed hatred, anger, idiocy, illogical thought, sexism, racism, jingoism, ageism, and any other kind of –ism, then you could browse...
View Article“Smart” thermostat points towards automated homes
The Nest thermostat is already several kinds of wonderful, not least because it's perhaps the biggest attempt yet to turn the average home into a "connected home" as part of the ever–expanding Internet...
View ArticleGoogle lets you take a virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider
You may think Google's engineers are smart, but they're rather outclassed by the small town's worth of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians who populate CERN, Europe's amazing research facility...
View ArticleGoogle tries to de-mystify Glass
"Wanna try Glass? Damn right you do. Just kidding... but seriously if you do want to, we're going to start bringing Glass to cities across the US so you can give it a spin." That's how Google...
View ArticleGoogle Glass goes on a roadtrip
"Wanna try Glass? Damn right you do. Just kidding... but seriously if you do want to, we're going to start bringing Glass to cities across the US so you can give it a spin."That's how Google introduces...
View ArticleBlackBerry lost nearly $1 billion this quarter
Failing smartphone maker BlackBerry has just reported its second quarter finances, and they include a single damning number that will hit headlines around the world: A loss from continuing operations...
View ArticleMove over Miley, YouTube is starting its own music awards
Forget about twerking, striped suits and the excesses of MTV: That other bastion of rational, high quality entertainment, YouTube, is holding its own music award ceremony for the very first time....
View ArticleBill Gates under pressure to let Microsoft go
Bill Gates and Microsoft go together like apple and pie, and have done so since the young Gates cofounded the company in 1974 with Paul Allen (a man that Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has called a...
View ArticleBlack market drug site shuttered–and owner arrested
According to reports at KrebsOnSecurity.com, Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts," has been arrested and charged with knowingly violating U.S. narcotics law. His infamous website, the Silk Road,...
View ArticleRdio offers free music stations
From today users of the Rdio app will be able to listen to unlimited streaming music via a radio-like "Station" that is themed by genre, artist or other parameters without having to pay. For now the...
View ArticleApple said to buy smart calendar app
Though Apple hasn't yet gone beyond its classic "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time" non–commital reply to CNet, the big rumor at the moment is that Apple has indeed bought the...
View ArticleMeet the robot of the future
The interweb's are buzzing thanks to a video of Boston Dynamics' newest machine, a large four–legged robot called WildCat. Developed with money from DARPA, the cat–like machine is a more...
View ArticleComing soon: Gondola rides to the edge of space
For a mere $75,000, an Arizona startup called World View will fly you up to the very edge of space in comfort beneath a giant helium balloon.World View's plan is to fly a large pressurized gondola...
View ArticleCandy Crush has crushed the competition
A year ago, the simple puzzler game app Candy Crush Saga hit the app stores, and today the company behind it, King, says the app has just passed the 500 million download mark across all app stores...
View ArticleThe Guardian receives shadowy threats from the U.K. Government
The newspaper says the government sent representatives to shred all relevant Edward Snowden-related data
View ArticleChina unblocks Facebook for a select few
Those inside Shanghai's Free Trade Zone will have access to Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times
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