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North Korea had hoped that they would be able to cyberbully Sony from releasing The Interview as well as the rest of the world from seeing it. They seem to have failed on both measures and have dramatically increased the popularity of what most are calling a mediocre comedy. It will soon break 1 mil

You can buy just about anything you want online: electronics, computers, food, homes, even islands. Outside of eBay and the occasional private sale, cars have avoided the eCommerce trends. Today, you still have to go to a dealership to fill out the paperwork, test drive the vehicle, and haggle over

Here’s a new twist on an old concept: The instant camera. PrintSnap, a self-contained camera now in the planning stages by electrical engineer Michael Ciuffo, will use standard cash register receipt paper to print pictures on the spot in a mashup of a really long film roll and a Polaroid. The camera

Earlier this month, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus stopped sales in India after a New Delhi court upheld a complaint by rival Micromax. Now the ban has been lifted and OnePlus will be able to start importing and selling devices again. At the heart of the issue is the Cyanogen operating system, whi

The Sony Pictures hack and its resulting fallout may have caught many people by surprise, but not the FBI — it apparently suspected for months that something like this might happen. The Intercept has obtained a December 2013 agency report warning that it was just a matter of time before a US c

Barnes & Noble has paid Pearson $27.7 million in cash and stock to buy back its stake in the company’s Nook e-reader business, giving the bookseller chain full control over the Nook once again. The deal comes almost 3 weeks after Microsoft sold back its stake in the Nook business for a $185 mill

The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that more than half a million public comments were, in fact, missing from the bulk download that the agency had shared with the outside world in a bid to add some measure of transparency to the debate over net neutrality. The counting and miscoun

The Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is that rare proposal that’s such a bad idea that it actually brings people of all different political beliefs together. If you look at the website for Stop Mega Comcast, for instance, you’ll see both liberal groups such as Common Cause and conservative outfits s

PlayStation Now is Sony’s new streaming service that lets gamers stream games over the internet. Now it seems gamers will not have to own a console in order to use the service. Sony has just announced that they will be bringing PlayStation Now to Samsung Smart TVs. The service will be launched as an

Humans have sent several unmanned probes to Mars and plans are in the works to mount crewed missions to the Red Planet within the next couple of decades. But it’s extremely expensive and fuel-intensive to put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars—and voyages have to be scheduled for narrow “

A new phone that runs Firefox OS is launching in Japan on Christmas Day, and it’s a looker. The Fx0 phone has an unusual feature that makes it stand out next to iPhones and Android devices: The Fx0’s exterior casing is transparent. The see-through phone is the product of a partnership be

The cyber attack on JPMorgan Chase in mid-2014 was the largest computer breach ever for a US bank. More than 80 million consumers and small businesses had their personal information exposed in the attack, and it could have been prevented with one tiny change to a forgotten server in a corner somewhe

Even if you don’t like Samsung’s phones, you should still appreciate the company as a whole. Why? Because as even Apple will admit, it’s a great components supplier and its displays, processors and other hardware are first-rate. Now PhoneArena brings us word that Samsung has just announced it has st

The more you read about the wonders of modern day technology, accompanying it would also be their corresponding dangers, making you wonder whether you would be better off increasing your life expectancy by being a Luddite. Having said that, if you happen to find e-book readers to be an indispensable

ICT Minister Pornchai Rujiprapa at a press conference yesterday said Thai authorities “can monitor all of the nearly 40 million Line messages sent by people in Thailand each day,” according to The Nation. The minister said citizens can lodge complaints with police if they receive messages that “offe

It’s CES time already. Yes, the Consumer Electronics Show isn’t here yet, but the first product launch is. LG has unveiled its newest Music Flow products, including three speakers and three sound bars with some twists. The new products have many of the usual features, including Bluetooth connectivit

A still image which was purportedly snapped from a OnePlus promotional video claims to show off a device which could very well end up as the next handset that the smartphone manufacturer has in the pipeline. Of course, this is but a rumor as at press time until something more concrete shows up, wher

The surface of Venus is not anything close to habitable, since its average surface temperature is around 864 degrees Fahrenheit. But what if we never bothered trying to walk on Venus and instead built a floating city in the clouds that would make Lando Calrissian feel right at home? That’s one proje

When it was “confirmed” by the FBI that North Korea was behind the hack of Sony Pictures, the US government had promised that they would launch an appropriate response. It was unclear what they meant but it looks like the taking out of North Korea’s internet could be one way of going about it. Accor

While Sony is still licking its post-hack wounds it’s going on the offensive about its leaked emails. Right now it looks like it’s going after Twitter and Twitter users. Vice’s tech site, Motherboard reports that it has in its possession a letter from Sony lawyer, David Boies sent to Twitter’s gener

On Friday, a post on the Tor Project’s blog sent out an alarming message: “The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next few days.” More than 2 million users use the network to obscure their identities online, but law enforcement h

CES is right around the corner, folks, and that means we’re sure to see some fancy new offerings from our favorite brands relatively soon. Jumping ahead of the action today was Asus, which ran a teaser on its Facebook page for a new ZenFone that appears to be sporting dual rear cameras. At ten

Back in 2013 there were many doom and gloom predictions for BlackBerry. Many had speculated that BlackBerry could end up selling itself or at least a bulk of its patents to other companies in order to keep it afloat, but what ended up happening was a cash injection to help the company survive. Well

Everyone knows that solid state drives are quick, but capacity remains a major concern. Intel and Samsung have tackled the problem with a technology called 3D NAND which builds upon existing SSD technology by adding more planes to each memory chip’s die. The new Samsung 850 Evo drives, which can ach

If you are itching to get your hands on a new car some time next year or the year after next, then you might want to check out the 2016 Cadillac CT6. What would make this particular ride more special than what we have seen in the past would be the fact that its new […]

We get to see a lot of tire technology “advancements” that turn out to be a little better rubber, a new gripping pattern, or something that will allow drivers to go on a flat for an extended distance. We rarely get to see anything that’s truly revolutionary, but Hankook is trying t

Apparently, the US is willing to recruit any ally it can get in its digital battles — including countries that are frequently its adversaries. Sources for both the Associated Press and the New York Times claim that American officials have asked China to implement a block that would “crip

Just because the likes of Amazon, Google and Facebook are exploring the use of drones doesn’t mean Americans are going to embrace them with open arms. In fact, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows there are more Americans who oppose the use of commercial drones than there are Americans who support

In the days after Sony canceled the theatrical release of the Seth Rogen, James Franco comedy The Interview, the studio has so far failed to make any alternative distribution arrangements, in part because crucial Video On Demand partners are unwilling to assume the risk of a potential new cyberattac

India’s been a battleground for a lot of new smartphone makers in the past few months. While a lot of the competition has come from the neighbouring country of China, many of India’s domestic players have partaken in the game, making it rise to cut-throat levels. International biggies such as Motoro

North Korea has ratcheted the absurdity level of the Sony hack up a notch by pleading its innocence again and even offering to help find the real perpetrators. The FBI recently blamed North Korea for the attack that forced Sony Pictures Entertainment to cancel The Interview starring Seth Rogen and J

The up-and-coming mobile handset manufacturer in China is none other than Xiaomi, and expectations are stratospheric for the technology start-up. Xiaomi has been making quite the name for itself with an impressive line-up of affordable smartphones. Even one of its more recent releases, the Mi4, is a

The cable and satellite television industry could be in for a big shift thanks to a small change proposed by the Federal Communications Commission. The regulator is officially considering a tweak to regulation that would remove a major roadblock for companies seeking to offer television online, FCC

When you are an astronaut living on the International Space Station (ISS), it would be best if you were prepared beforehand to bring everything that you need – and might need down the road throughout the entire duration of the mission, since it isn’t exactly located near a convenience store or super

Reddit today revealed just how it plans to give a 10 percent stake in the company back to its most active users, thus making good on its promise from September. The plan involves a new feature called “reddit notes,” which will be randomly passed out to a portion of the service’s active user base. Th

Yahoo has been shutting down a lot of its products since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO. It even closed the famous Yahoo Directory that put the company on the map. Yahoo just announced its next round of shut-downs. “In 2014, we invested in our strengths – search, communications, and digital content,

It hasn’t been very long, but The Pirate Bay is still dead — perhaps surprisingly, considering the site’s resilience over the years. Shortly after its downfall, competing torrent site isoHunt created what the team called a resurrected version of The Pirate Bay as a tribute to the legacy of the popul

2014 has seen a widescale battle for net neutrality, with the government and massive corporations clashing over just what a free and open internet will look like in the years to come. Much of that conversation has focused around the FCC reclassifying the internet as a Title II utility, which would l

You know how your smartphone and computer just do nothing when you’re not using them? You can now put those slackers to work in a noble cause: helping cure the Ebola virus. IBM’s World Community Grid has teamed up with scientists from the Scripps Research Institute with the “Outsma

President Barack Obama said Friday that Sony Pictures “made a mistake” when it pulled its comedy The Interview in the face of threats by hackers who he said were from North Korea. He also vowed that the United States would respond to the cyberattack. Speaking at his year-end press confer