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In a peculiar turn of events, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has issued a subpoena for a parody Twitter account in relation to the July incident that saw white flags placed on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. According to The New York Times, the subpoena was issued to the @BicycleLobby Twitter

If you want the fastest broadband Internet in the US, consider moving to Virginia. That’s the takeaway from a new bit of research from communications firm Broadview Networks, which ranks average broadband speeds for all 50 United States and the District of Colombia. Virginia tops the list with an av

With kids like these, the future is bright. Thirteen-year-old Trisha Prabhu is one of 15 global finalists in the Google Science Fair 2014, and her project is meant to end cyberbullying. Prabhu looked into how many kids between 12 and 18 are bullied online (more than 50 percent) and found research th

In May, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it wanted to see its text-to-911 service rolled out across all network carriers in the United States. Now the process has moved a stage further: On Friday, the body voted in favor of rules that will compel U.S. carriers and some app develo

Japan’s LINE Corp, the parent company behind the popular LINE instant messaging service, has taken off as one of the most popular social networks in Asia over the past few years, largely in part to its fabulous collection of stickers and booming business as a mobile gaming platforming. Home to hundr

3D printing can make an action figure copy of your body and face, but the hair usually ends up looking like a Lego minifig wig. The mad scientists at Disney Research just solved that, with an algorithm so powerful it can trace your hair’s shape and color with ultra-realism. The research team a

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler isn’t happy with Verizon’s reply to his strongly worded letter, which chastises the company for its plans throttle some unlimited LTE subscribers. See, Big Red defended the move and reasoned that the other major carriers (AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile) do it too,

These days, data centers, portable USB battery chargers and all sorts of transportation are going green thanks to fuel cell technology. Now you can add submersibles to that list: Japan is developing a 33-foot-long submarine that runs off emissions-free energy. Japanese Defense Ministry officials tol

CareDox, a New York startup focused on cloud-based storage solutions for health records, is in the midst of raising about $3.1 million, according to SEC filings. The company, founded in 2010 through Startup Health Academy, is headed by Hesky Kutscher with the purpose of making health information mor

John McAfee, the controversial founder of McAfee antivirus software, has started a new company called The Brown List aimed at helping people fight big problems. He made the announcement in a surprise appearance at a hacker conference here today. The list will take complaints filed by ordinary people

Remember the class-action lawsuit that Adobe, Apple and Google faced over no-hiring deals? Well, it turns out that the $324.5 million settlement the trio reached isn’t going to be honored by the judge. As The New York Times reports, judge Lucy H. Koh has rejected the low-ball figure because, a

Roughly a month after first announcing its expansion into Canada, subscription streaming music service Spotify is now sending invites to people who signed up to receive notification when the service was imminent. Invitations are currently still on a limited basis, but the company is testing the serv

Dell is working on software for existing brain-reading headsets that can accurately identify a user’s mood, the company says. The company could release a mood-reading app as soon as 2017, according to the BBC. Dell’s head of research and development Jai Menon said the company’s moo

And you think apps that track your location are bad! Quettra, a mobile intelligence startup that compiles massive amounts of information about mobile users, just closed a seed round in the amount of $2.9 million. Quettra knows that mobile advertisers can never have enough data about customers. And i

Amsterdam-based digital security firm Gemalto says it will close on an $890 million deal to buy SafeNet later this year. “We have just entered into our new multi-year development plan, and there is a perfect fit between Gemalto’s ‘security at the edge’ and SafeNet’s ‘security at the core’ capabiliti

Now that cell phone unlocking is again legal in the U.S., many smartphone users may be interested in unlocking their devices, either for carrier switching purposes, or for selling their old devices that were purchased with a new contract, and thus were locked to a certain operator. Luckily, for T-Mo

Rumor has it Google and HTC are working together on a new mid-sized Nexus 8 tablet and now several fresh details have been revealed. According to a new report from Twitter tipster @upleaks the device will ship running Android L, which we pretty much already assumed since it’s already available for t

If you can’t join them, beat them. That’s the message from T-Mobile after Sprint this week decided not to pursue a merger with the Bellevue-based wireless carrier. After some initial smack talk, T-Mobile CEO John Legere took things a step further — predicting that T-Mobile will surpass Sprint in tot

There’s no sign that Amazon and Hachette are close to burying their e-book hatchet, which has prompted the authors caught in the middle to speak up. One of those affected, Douglas Preston, penned an open letter to Jeff Bezos, requesting that he stopped singling out individual Hachette authors

It’s becoming more and more obvious, if it wasn’t already, that we don’t have that much time to cut greenhouse gas emissions before climate change is out of control: One recent U.N. report suggests that energy systems will have to completely transform by 2050. So what might that ac

We already heard that Sony would be hosting its usual press event during IFA early next month, but today we get official confirmation with screenshots of press invites making their way online. As previously reported, the event is scheduled for September 3rd and the invite seems to hint at device ann

Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration envi

Scribd is rolling out a revamped version of its unlimited digital book service today. E-book subscription services are getting more popular lately, partly because Amazon finally starting to offer one of its own, Kindle Unlimited, last month. Scribd compete’s with Amazon’s service as well as with est

Just a week after T-Mobile announced strong second quarter results, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, the company announced that it’s become the top prepaid wireless service provider in the US with 15.6 million customers. Sprint, which is now number two in prepaid, has a total of 15.

China has new set of restrictions on what citizens will be able to post on messaging applications, Chinese officials said Thursday. The new set of regulations is a national security measure, the officials said. Under the new policy, China is blocking two foreign chat apps, Kakaotalk and the wildly p

Timex just added a new entry to its Ironman line of GPS watches, ‘cept it’s not just any ole timepiece this time — it’s a 3G-connected smartwatch that doesn’t even need to pair up with a phone. The company calls it the Ironman One GPS+, and while it may have features co

Need an item from Amazon before the day is over? The retailer is now offering same-day delivery in six more cities across the US. As of Wednesday, consumers in Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. can place a same-day delivery order for any one of more th

Uber wants you to get into an unfamiliar car with a total stranger. But that may be a price worth paying for a cheaper ride. The company’s new UberPool feature will notify users if it discovers a “co-rider” with similar travel plans, and will also provide the other person’s f

It was in April earlier this year when we brought you news that BlackBerry and T-Mobile have parted ways because of a U.S. licensing agreement, and not too long after that, T-Mobile offered their subscribers a $200 incentive in order to “upgrade” to a Samsung, although if you were to look at it from

Samsung has just sent out invitations for an upcoming event on September 3, 2014. The main event will take place in Berlin, with additional remote events in New York City and Beijing, likely for the unveiling of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 smartphone. The invitation clearly states, “Note the date” leavi

Sprint is reportedly abandoning its plans to acquire rival wireless carrier T-Mobile. The decision came in light of what would no doubt be stiff opposition from regulators according to people familiar with the situation as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The nation’s third largest w

Since the dawn of time, humans have been building ever more elaborate tools to simplify their lives. Today that long journey comes to an end with Push for Pizza, the app that lets you order a pizza with a single button. As expected, the app requires a one-time initial setup to enter your payment inf

Can you make a 3D-printed saxophone that’s a fraction as heavy as a “normal” one but sounds, to the untrained ear, virtually the same? Yes. I mean, you probably couldn’t, but luthier Olaf Diegel has done exactly that. Diegel took a break from making high-end 3D-printed guitar

Cybercriminals have become so good at finding new ways to penetrate corporate and government IT systems that they can no longer be entirely blocked. Cybersecurity vendors are being forced to recognize that fact, and one of them,Vectra Networks Inc., has raised another $25 million in funding to detec

A teenage whitehat hacker said he has found a simple way that attackers can bypass the two-factor authentication system PayPal uses to protect user accounts. The circumvention requires little more than spoofing a browser cookie set when users link their eBay and PayPal accounts, according to Joshua

The US Army could one day have its own very own version of the Star Trek replicator. Researchers at the Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Massachusetts are currently investigating ways that 3D printers could be used to create meals and rations for soldiers. “It co

Andrew Bachman is the latest crammer to run afoul of the feds. Bachman and number of other defendants pitched text message services offering “love tips,” “fun facts,” and celebrity gossip alerts, but placed charges for these services – typically $9.99 a month – on consumers’ wireless bills without t

Don’t plan on making a cellphone call on a plane any time soon. Though the Federal Communications Commission is in the process of allowing expanded use of phones while up in the air, the Department of Transportation plans to stop fliers from fully taking advantage of that, according to The Wal

Samsung is getting ready to fight the iPhone 6 with a new kind of flagship handset – or at least mid- to high-end device – that’s going to ditch some plastic in favor of some metal. The Galaxy Alpha, whose specs and design have been leaked already, has appeared on Weibo in an extensive set […

Kogan, the Australian reseller, in association with BenQ has introduced its Agora 4G smartphone in the United Kingdom. The latest offering from company is said to be designed to offer high-end hardware experience at an affordable price tag. Kogan Agora 4G sports a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a resol