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Home Depot already confirmed a few days ago it has been the victim of an elaborate cyber attack, without providing specific details about the number of users that may have been affected in this new credit and debit card data heist. The company on Monday again confirmed that hackers managed to get in

Because nothing says “Our new product is selling great!” like dropping its price down by 99.5% two months after launch, Amazon has dropped the price of the Fire Phone from $200 to 99 cents. Before you head over to Amazon with nothing but a lone Washington in hand, remember: it’s 99 cents with a 2-ye

IBM is baking more security into its hybrid cloud pony SoftLayer thanks to a new deal with Intel. Announced just one day ahead of the annual Intel Developer Forum, SoftLayer is being equipped with bare metal servers powered by Intel Trusted Execution Technology, providing extra hardware monitoring a

Home automation is a trend that’s catching on these days. Manufacturers and developers are creating hardware and software which bring control for connected objects to a user’s smartphone, tablet or wearable device. Samsung has come up with several products under its Smart Home program and now its lo

How does a famous-rapper-slash-business-tycoon and a tech titan launch a collaborative project? Apparently, by throwing a fancy soirée graced by the presence of a robotic Picasso. In honor of Intel’s and SMS Audio’s new heart rate-monitoring headphones, a team of interactive artists led

Typically, attacks against your WiFi router require a lengthy attempt to guess any codes and passwords. Not if you use 0xcite’s new technique, however; the research firm has detailed a flaw in some router chipsets that lets hackers bypass the push-button security of WiFi Protected Setup almost

There are likely to be fewer tablets shipped this year than previously expected, according to latest estimates. Research firm IDC lowered its tablet projections on Friday for the full year down to 233 million shipments. That’s a 6.5 percent year-over-year growth rate, compared to the 12.1 perc

Binging on Mad Men via Netflix or Blu-ray has a few advantages over watching the show when it broadcasts. Namely, not having to sit through commercials that jump higher in volume than anything heard in the halls of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. As spotted by The Hill, the FCC is hoping to change tha

Telstra’s Whispir Conversation Platform is set to go global from the end of month, with the communications company aiming replicate its service delivery to Australian enterprise and government customers on an international scale. The Whispir platform is a Cloud-based enterprise service which bundles

Taking into consideration that Samsung of South Korea is breathing down TSMC’s back, the latter has stepped up plans to roll out 50,000 wafers each month that will make use of its 16nm process, and this is tipped to happen during the entire first quarter of next year. These 16nm wafers were meant to

If the rumors are to be believed, there is a good chance the Motorola could be taking the wraps off the Moto X+1 on the 4th of September. So far we have heard some rumors about the handset’s specs, such as its HD display, quad-core processor, and a 13MP rear-facing camera. However thanks to a [&hell

DraftKings, a fantasy sports site that offers cash prizes to winners of its daily fantasy competitions, has raised $41 million in a funding round led by The Raine Group. The round, which brings DraftKing’s total funding to nearly $75 million since its founding in April 2012, included existing invest

Normally, breaking a PC’s security involves either finding security exploits or launching brute force attacks, neither of which is necessarily quick or easy. However, a team at Tel Aviv University has come up with a potentially much simpler way to swipe data from a computer: touch it. If you m

At 23, James Proud is a rising Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who has managed to raise nearly $13 million in funding – none of which is from institutional investors. His company, Hello, raised $10.5 million from a circle of well-connected angel investors, some of whom wrote million-dollar checks.

It’s great that manufacturers recover lead from discarded car batteries to use in new ones, since lead production from ores yields toxic residues. The problem is, when we shift from lead-acid to lithium-ion and other types of batteries (and we’re starting to), over 200 million old batter

What a ride it has been for Lenovo of late. Last quarter, the company unseated HP to sell the most computers globally and on Thursday the company said it’s selling even more mobile devices helped largely by a doubling of phone sales in the last three months. Alongside the 14.5 million PCs Lenovo mov

Tired of the Uber and Lyft drama? There’s another taxi app you should be paying attention to. GetTaxi, also known as Gett, just announced a big $150M funding round, reports Israeli news site Globes. The announcement comes two months after competing service Uber raised $1.2 billion in funding. Taxi h

This is a floating Bluetooth speaker. It’s suspended above its base thanks to an electromagnet and can play music from any Bluetooth source. It’s called the Om One. It also looks really cool. If you want one of your own, Om Audio is launching a crowdfunding campaign at its website where