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A breakthrough in solid state drive processing means current drives can be boosted 300 per cent faster with 60 per cent better energy efficiency. Current flash drives can’t overwrite data on the same memory area. That means data must be written in a new area before the old is invalidated. The

After winning a verdict of nearly $25 million in a federal trade secrets case earlier this year, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has filed a motion to withdraw from its representation of LBDS Holding Company, LLC. Noting that it is unusual to do so after a favorable jury verdict and while a motio

Authorities in the United States and Mexico appear to have conspired to take down a political website, and the incident is being swept under the rug, setting a dangerous precedent. 1dmx.org, a site featuring user-submitted content on police abuse at political demonstrations in Mexico, was blocked fr

Raymie Stata has been a champion of Hadoop since its early days, helping to bring the technology into Yahoo and then drive its usage across the company. Now, Stata is co-founder and CEO of Altiscale, a startup offering Hadoop as a service to companies fed up with managing their own big data infrastr

Springpad, the online and app-based platform for saving and sharing web content, managing notes and collaborating on projects with others, has announced that it’ll be shutting up shop come June 25th. Despite ongoing development of the service, it’s evidently struggled to compete with the

Samsung is said to be working on yet another smart watch model expected to be unveiled this summer — one that would completely replace a smartphone rather than simply being an accessory to one. In addition to taking calls, the new stand-alone watch from Samsung is expected to capture pictures, send

Redbox’s streak of big growth is over: the company says it plans to uninstall more than 500 of its DVD/Blu-ray rental kiosks this year. The move comes after Redbox saw its revenue increase by just 3 percent last year, and The Wall Street Journal says it’s not likely to see better results

The 2014 Ford Fusion enters the mid-sized sedan class with major completion such as the Nissan Altima, the Honda Accord and Mazda 6. The Fusion shines in...

The NSA has been recording nearly every phone call made in Afghanistan, according to WikiLeaks. The recordings are being made as part of the same program that was reported earlier this week to be capturing nearly every call in the Bahamas, as well as phone records from

Martha Stewart loves her iPad, and apparently she’s picked up a sweet new toy for it. Stewart says that she’s recently become taken with Parrot’s AR.Drone 2.0, a lightweight copter that’s controlled using smartphone and tablet apps. She wrote a short blurb about it in the May

T-Mobile yesterday launched the long-awaited Voice over LTE service, becoming the first of the big four wireless carriers to offer the service to its subscribers. CTO Neville Ray made the announcement in a blog post. What took some shine off the announcement is the fact that the technology debuted i

If you’re hoping to pre-order books by J.K. Rowling, Michael Connelly, and other Hachette Book Group authors, you’ll have to go somewhere besides Amazon. An ongoing standoff between Amazon and one of the leading New York publishers has escalated. The online retailer has removed pre-order

We’ve often seen it in science fiction: an exoskeleton worn over the body that turns an average human into a super human, sort of like Iron Man. An exoskeleton not only protects the body, but also lets a person carry heavier loads and get assists in things like walking, running, and other muscular m

As a part of an effort to bring Amazon’s Fire TV into as many living rooms as possible, the company is offering some of its customers a 30-day free trial of the Internet connected set-top box. Amazon is hand-picking participants by sending them an invite-only promotion email. If you’ve r

The Butterfleye is no ordinary surveillance camera, but it also doubles up as a home monitoring camera. In other words, the Butterfleye offers a whole lot more than vanilla security lookouts, as it also does its bit to record whatever goes on in your life. Taking a road that would be familiar with D

On the heels of a massive cyberattack that affected its 145 million users, eBay is reportedly facing a formal investigation with the government over its security practices. As first reported by CNET, eBay will have to answer questions from the government about what type of security the company had i

Some people are excited by the prospect of driverless cars, which allow passengers to kick back and enjoy the ride without a care in the world. But others worry that the technology could lead to diminished responsibility on the roads. n a bid to strike a balance and speed up the development of the t

Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs. HP has already cut 34,000 jobs as part of a plan to boost profits announced two years ago. It will now cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000

Though we’re pretty sure that time travelers don’t exist, people were working on hypertext — used by web browsers to retrieve connected information – long before computers. It even predates the ideas of a certain Vannevar Bush, the man generally acknowledged as having laid th

HarperCollins continues its support for subscription e-book services in a deal with Epic!, a children’s subscription service, adding 1,000 backlist kids’ e-book titles to the company’s library. Epic! offers access to a library of more than 4,000 kids’ e-books for $9.99 a month. HarperCol

There are some parts of the world where free public WiFi isn’t as accessible compared to other countries. Japan is one of these countries, mainly because its residents have long relied on mobile broadband for access, which is why there isn’t much need for free public WiFi. But what about tourists wh

Over the past few months and years, we have been hearing rumors that Valve could be working on Half-Life 3. After all, why wouldn’t they? The previous two Half-Life games have proven to be huge hits, and have managed to spawn mods that have become their own games, like Counter-Strike, for example. S

The Galaxy S5 smartphone is now on sale so Samsung’s next big handset launch will be the Galaxy Note 4. Here we look at the rumors surrounding the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 release date, price and specs, including rumours that it could be unveiled at a Samsung Unpacked launch prior to IF

eBay on Thursday acknowledged that some of its customers’ personal information may have been compromised following a breach, advising users to immediately change their passwords. The announcement has apparently been enough for some creative individuals with malicious intentions to advertise online “

At first glance, Twitter’s international policy on censorship seems reasonable. If the laws of a particular country require content to be locally blocked, then Twitter will adhere to that, deeming it to be a lesser evil than having the social network blocked in its entirety. This is what&#8217

Shaky smartphone videos are coming to Yelp. The popular business review site on Wednesday told Business Insider that the app will soon introduce a video component, allowing users to upload short clips in the same vein as Vine. Yelp’s product manager, Madhu Prabaker, said the new feature is meant to

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has a fairly impressive collection of art stashed away—and now you can download almost 400,000 digital images of its pieces for free. The artworks have been released as Open Access for Scholarly Content which means students, academics, and anyone work

Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, which has more than one million employees, is the biggest electronics maker in the world. The company builds many of the popular electronics devices available in stores around the globe, including Apple’s iOS devices. However, Foxconn has not been running a smoot

The first wave of popular HBO series and movies has officially landed on Amazon Prime. As of Wednesday, Prime members in the US can now catch a full lineup of HBO shows, films, miniseries, documentaries, and specials at no extra cost. Amazon has even cooked up a special page called theHBO Collection

Texas has the second-largest state economy in the U.S. but, when it comes to venture capital investment, the Lone Star State last year ranked 4th in terms of dollars raised and 6th in terms of the number of companies funded. A big part of the problem has been a relative lack of in-state VC firms and

Earlier this year, Fitbit recalled their Force fitness bands due to complaints over skin irritations and allergies. It should be noted that the complaints were only 1.7% of the customer base, but we guess Fitbit decided that the responsible thing to do was to issue a recall. Better safe than sorry,

Daniel Ek has devoted most of his waking moments over the past few years to evangelizing about the glories of streaming music. He’s well suited to the task. In addition to a forbiddingly deep reservoir of knowledge about every genre and subgenre to emerge from his native Sweden, Ek, 31, is the co-fo

The market for malware tools is expanding, including the purchase of pre-made tools for a hefty fee from underground developers. One such tool aimed at Android, iBanking, promises to conduct a number of malicious actions including intercepting text messages, stealing phone information, pulling geolo

InfoSonics Corporation has announced the launch of its new VeryKool s505 smartphone, the most dynamic mobile handset the company has offered to date. The s505, nicknamed the “Spark,” has an ultra high-end design. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad core processor and is equipped with the And

Senators delivered a potential deathblow to patent reform on Wednesday as the Judiciary Committee postponed work on the tech industry’s top legislative priority. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said weeks of negotiations on a compromise had reached a dead end and announced he was y

It seems that hard times are continuing for struggling e-commerce startup Fab, as a company spokesperson confirmed to Buzzfeed that it will lay of 80 to 90 employees — roughly a third of its current staff — in meetings tomorrow. The news comes as the team has spent the last six months putting togeth

Even though Apple has beaten Samsung twice in the US so far, it failed to obtain the significant win it needed to really deliver a big hit to its archenemy. In fact, Apple has also been found to infringe a Samsung patent in the second US lawsuit between the two giants, which is apparently an asset f

Coming home and unlocking your door to let yourself in is something we’re all familiar with. However there are times when your hands might be full, whether it be with bags of groceries, books, or carrying a child, and trying to reach into your pockets to grab your keys and fumble with the lock can [

Encrypted comms firm Silent Circle has just announced a new funding round which it says has been fueled by demand in the privacy-focused smartphone, Blackphone, the security hardened Android handset it’s building with Spanish startup Geeksphone. Privacy, it seems,

We’ve been skeptical about the prospect of a Samsung Galaxy S5 Active – the S5 flagship is already waterproof and dustproof – but a couple of new videos have surfaced showing what appears to be that very phone. The footage was captured by TK Tech News, which showed off the alleged Galaxy S5 Pr