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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

Nobody laughs much at Elon Musk anymore, but plenty of people snickered at his Hyperloop idea. To remind you, the Hyperloop is a series of underground trains powered by compressed air that transport folks between cities in tubes at around Mach I. While that may sound certifiably insane, a company ca

The Motion Picture Association of America has responded to Google’s condemnation of Project Goliath, a secret and ambitious anti-piracy program revealed in leaked Sony documents. Yesterday, the search company said it was “deeply concerned” by the MPAA’s efforts to push new co

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will say later today that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony, according to Reuters and CBS. Reuters reports that investigators will also say there may also be a link to China in the hack, with Chinese servers potentially being involved. It appears to b

As 4K technology slowly starts entering the mainstream content providers are moving to make access to content in Ultra High Definition more easy. Online video streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon have already started streaming content in 4K. Now a major pay-TV provider, Comcast, is getting in the

Fox has always been a friend of Hulu’s (which makes sense considering 21st Century Fox is the company’s largest shareholder), and it looks like that partnership is going to get a lot closer thanks to this exclusivity deal. For fans of watching Archer and It’s Always Sunny on Netfli

There is a considerable amount of time left before it comes due for Samsung to release an updated version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S series, but already the rumors have started following. We have got a new one to share today. It is being rumored that the upcoming flagship, which will p

Secret’s “dramatic” app update has arrived. The Verge has published an in-depth look at the confessional app’s attempt to relaunch itself after user downloads and app engagement plummeted. Secret now looks and operates a whole lot more like its rising competitor Yik Yak. Images no longer dominate th

Sony’s PlayStation 4 has broken two more milestones: selling sixteen million consoles and over 60 million games worldwide, according to VGChartz. The PlayStation 4 sold 1,193,346 in the last week of November. That brings lifetime sales to 16,146,005 units and 61.8 million games sold so far. This sha

If you’re a Netflix subscriber and was hoping that you might one day be able to binge watch some shows from thousands of feet in the air on a plane, sorry to burst your bubble, but it isn’t going to happen. Netflix has spoken definitively on the topic of offline viewing, advising that it isn’t [&hel

The US Army does have a fair number of ”toys” to play around with, where you can be sure that all of these “toys” would come in handy on the battlefield – as well as in passive defense. In fact, they have just revealed an airship that resembles that of a blimp, where this particular […]

Evan Spiegel, who has pushed the concept of ephemeral communication as Snapchat’s CEO, said he was “devastated” by the publication of his archived emails that were included in the most recent round of the Sony hack. “I felt like I was going to cry all morning, so I went on a

Sony is canceling The Interview’s planned theatrical release in response to all major US theater chains deciding not to show the film after attacks were threatened. “In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film The Interview, we have decided not to move

Air travel has become so commonplace and convenient these days, that we are starting to look into commercial space exploration. However, this does not mean that the world of commercial aviation has not more room for improvement – no sir, I am quite sure that passengers would love to cut down the tra

When you sign up for a contract or a plan at a carrier, they tell you that you have to pay X amount, but when your bill arrives, it’s more than that. You try to study the bill but it’s full of numbers, codes, and basically it’s too long and confusing to make sense, so […]

Spotify is embroiled in a highly public war of words with pop star Taylor Swift, who recently pulled her music catalog from the site, calling Spotify a “grand experiment” that devalues music. And that’s just fine with Founder and CEO Daniel Ek. In a recent interview with Billboard, the charismatic y

The OnePlus One is barely a year old but it looks like OnePlus has a new announcement planned, according to a recent teaser image posted on their Google+ page. The image doesn’t really say or show much, except that it reads, “Go Further” followed by four blue LED dots. It also gives us a date which

Sony’s month from hell just got even worse, following a new class action lawsuit that accuses the company of poor security practices and seeks compensation for more than 15,000 current and former employees that have had their personal information published by hackers. “An epic nightmare, much better

Can you believe it? A year has come and it is nearly gone, as we prepare ourselves to usher in 2015. You know what that means for tech followers, it would mean making the long and tiring trek to the mecca of tech, which would be CES 2015. BMW will be there, where they intend […]

Business intelligence company Mattermark has been described as “counting cards” when it comes to evaluating startups amid a sea of gamblers. And it looks like the strategy is paying off, as the company is announcing today that it has raised $6.5 million in a first round of institutional funding. The

Biodegradable plastics exist because traditional ones take between 20 and 1,000 years to break down in the wild, often blocking waterways and killing animals as that all happens. That’s why two industrial designers and a group of microbiologists have designed a way to break down plastic &#8212

WeWork , an office developer, believes it can be as transformational to its industry as upstarts like Airbnb and Uber are in travel and transportation. The four-year-old company, which divvies up rented office space and sublets mostly to startups, said on Monday it closed a $355 million funding roun

IBM’s Watson beat the odds on Jeopardy! Now the big question: is it smart enough to help solve what ails the US Department of Veterans Affairs? The past couple of years have been pretty rough for the VA. In June of this year, it got blasted for underreporting veteran complaints, which ran the

There is no free lunch in this world, and neither are there free seats on a plane – not unless you happen to own the airline itself, or are somehow in a position where such perks are afforded to you. While humans are the ones who would fly in the cabin of an airplane, how […]

HBO is one of the most popular premium networks on TV, with shows like Game of Thrones and others. The channel has also launched an online and mobile app called HBO GO. This brings the content to your computer, phone or tablet. Now the network has arrived on Amazon Fire TV, the tiny set-top box [&he

Bose is a well-known player in music hardware, but just as Beats did, it looks like the company is trying to get into the content business, as well. As noticed by Hypebot, Bose currently has a job opening for a senior user experience designer, working under its “cloud music services” gro

This may shock you, but giving large companies special tax deals doesn’t magically lead to full employment and economic paradise. The Wall Street Journal reports that both AT&T and Verizon started receiving huge tax breaks starting in 2008 as part of a stimulus package and since then have actual

As leaks from the recent Sony hack continue to make headlines and company executives apologize for insensitive comments made in exposed emails, we still don’t know how the hack occurred or the exact nature of the demands made by the attackers. But we’ve learned a bit about Sony’s security practices.

Fundraising has become an increasingly common way to use crowdfunding sites, and today Indiegogo is making a big play to become the go-to site for running one. It’s launching a new section called Indiegogo Life, which allows fundraising campaigns meant to help yourself or others to be run for

Xiaomi’s rise in the market has been nothing short of extraordinary and unprecedented. The Chinese brand entered a mature market and gained massive success within it in just four years, but there are some compromises to that success as it turns out Xiaomi did not make as much money in 2013 as

Not too long ago it was reported that Samsung is going to introduce a new lineup of smartphones that will retain the single alphabet naming convention that Samsung has set in with the Galaxy A-series. The company didn’t confirm anything but rumors came online revealing that the Korean giant was work

BT, the company once known as British Telecom, said on Monday that it is now exclusively negotiating a possible £12.5 billion ($19.6 billion) takeover of the mobile carrier EE, a joint venture of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom and France’s Orange. BT and EE are now in a period of exclusivity that will l

It’s been a few months since the last Uncarrier event, so it’s time to spin up the magenta lights and fill T-Mobile CEO John Legere with caffeine because here comes Uncarrier 8.0. The event will be live streamed tomorrow at 7:30am PT from an undisclosed location. Instead of the usual agenda of Leger

Here’s an odd twist to the Sony Pictures hack: the attackers are becoming courteous… relatively speaking, of course. The Guardians of Peace are threatening to release yet more of the studio’s data as a “Christmas gift,” but they’re also offering to withhold person

The computer science gender gap struggle in Silicon Valley is real. A mere 17 percent of Google’s tech workers are women. It’s 15 percent at Facebook. Similar stats can be found at most of the larger tech companies. Girls Who Code is trying to reverse those digits with an announcement of a major exp

When we call, nay, insult someone with the term “bird brain”, we are more or less dissing the lack of grey matter up there, which has resulted to some really foolish actions. Perhaps you can boil it down to inexperience or immaturity, it does not matter, there are some moments in life when during a

NASA does have some pretty cool toys that they have unveiled in the past, in addition to other events that have marked pivotal moments of history in the lives of humankind. Having said that, here we are with a brand new robot that will offer the flexibility of a yogi so that this unique robot [&hell

Are you a user of Dropbox? That is a pretty handy place to store some files that are of a non-sensitive nature, especially when it comes to PowerPoint slides, as well as family photo that are non-compromising in their own way. Of course, if you want to remain as reserved as possible, then forget abo

You might recall that several years ago, Sony’s PSN was hacked and while your first thought might be that it isn’t Sony’s fault but the hackers’, it turns out that Sony was to blame due to poor security which also landed them in a spot of trouble as they were slapped with a fine due […]