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Solar power is arguably the most promising alternative energy source, but not everyone can put solar panels on their house. Be it because they don’t own the house or don’t have enough money for the installation, there are too many potential walls a person can run into when trying to put

Having nearly had all of its assets auctioned off last year, Just.me is planning on releasing a series of messaging apps built using the Just.me platform. The first of these apps, Chance, is a a private messaging app the connects users with random strangers. There are several safety measures that th

Bad new for T-Mobile but good news for T-Mobile customers who are looking for a change, AT&T is now offering $450 per line to any T-Mobile customer who switches over to AT&T. This isn’t as cool as it sounds though when you read the fine print. Those who switch will receive a “promotion

Snapchat was repeatedly warned by Gibson Security about a potential exploit that could allow hackers to steal user information, but the company chose to ignore the warnings. Shortly after Snapchat assured users that the exploit presented no danger to them, hackers managed to steal information from o

What makes encryption so safe isn’t that it can’t be cracked, all encryption can be cracked, its the sheer amount of time and effort it would require to do so. Even with a powerful supercomputer, it could take years to crack a single, high-end encryption. This is something that the NSA h

Barilla, the world’s largest producer of pasta, has been working with TNO Eindhoven to design the perfect pasta printer for use in restaurants around the world. Having these machines will restaurants to produce past quickly and cheaply on their own. If you’re wondering why a Barilla woul

The Elder Scrolls Online will be released for the PC and Mac in April and for the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 later in June, but profitable will it be? According to a recent leak, the new MMO cost over $200 million to make, putting it behind only Star Wars: The Old Republic and Grand […]

The introduction of the Internet has all but killed off the traditional hand-written letter, and by extension, the traditional mailbox. This doesn’t mean we no longer need mailboxes, quite the opposite. More and more people are purchasing their goods online and having the goods delivered to th

GymPact, now renamed Pact, is an app that makes you form a “pact” to exercise, log your meals on MyFitnessPal.com, or eat vegetables for a certain number of days. Completing your end of the pact gets you rewards in the form of small change that accumulates. Failing to meet the daily requ

It’s no secret that Motorola’s flagship Moto X hasn’t been a hit with consumers, and with considerable inventory likely building up, it’s time to move some product. The base configured Moto X will now run you $400 without a contract or carrier affiliation, while the much-anti

Gamers have always loathed DRM (digital rights management) but resistance to it has never been as strong as it is now. While DRM started off as a way to combat piracy, it has been proven in many arenas that pirates are willing to pay for computer games if they feel that the price is equivalent to [&

With CES 2014 just a few weeks away, LG has unveiled the computers and notebooks that the company will be showing off in Las Vegas. One, an all-in-one desktop PC, will feature a 27-inch full HD screen. The other two will be notebooks that will feature Intel Core processors, Nvidia graphics cards, an

Bad news for Hewlett-Packard employees. The company has already adjusted the number of people it needed to let go from 27,000 to 29,000 a year ago, but it’s now added another 5,000 for a total of 34,000. The good news, for everyone left anyway, is that CEO Meg Whitman has promised that this wi

Netflix is testing out a new streaming plan that shaves off a dollar from the monthly fee in exchange for standard definition streaming. The option is currently only available to new users, existing users aren’t yet able to get access to the new pricing. The company hopes that this new option will c

As the struggling company prepares to enter the new year, BlackBerry CEO John Chen expresses his belief that BlackBerry’s new strategy will help the company bring in revenue. Chen claims to be focused on the present and the future, not what BlackBery used to be. Chen points to BlackBerry&#8217

LG bought WebOS, a mobile OS originally developed by Palm, from HP earlier this year but has yet to do anything with it. The company announced that it intended to put WebOS in its future smart televisions and, according to reports, is gearing up to show off its first WebOS TV at CES 2014. LG always

For those of us who constantly have a gazillion tabs open, the Searchlet webapp may come in handy. To use Searchlet, all you need to do is install it onto your bookmarks bar. When you highlight a term and click on your Searchlet button, a sidebar slides into the left of your browser page and shows [

Samsung has launched a 110-inch Ultra HD television in the Middle East and China less than two weeks after revealing a similarly sized Ultra HD TV that it will be showing of at CES 2014. Aside from the size and resolution, it should carry over most of the features from its smaller stablemate, such a

The first Silk Road was taken down by the FBI a few months ago and the leader, Dread Pirate Roberts, was arrested. It was only a few weeks later that a new leader, also with the name Dread Pirate Roberts, rebooted the online black market with Silk Road 2.0. Howver, for reasons unknown, Dread Pirate

While there was no shortage of new smartwatches introduced in 2013, the wearable devices are far from becoming mainstream. This could all change next year as analysts expect smartwatch sales to increase by a whopping 500% in 2014. As it stands, the smartwatches that are currently available are clunk

Many people love going to the movie theater, it offers a kind of movie watching experience that you can’t get on your couch. What people don’t love is the ever present annoying moviegoers that plague 90% of theaters and do nothing but ruin the experience for people who actually want to e

Arthur C. Clarke, best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, was able to not only able to predict what computers would be like today, but how they would affect individuals and society as a whole. What makes this even more impressive is the fact that he made these predictions in the 1970’s,

Following recent reports that RSA was paid by the National Security Agency to purposely distribute broken encryptions that the NSA could crack, trust in the security industry has lowered considerably. RSA’s annual user conference in San Francisco is one of the largest security events of the ye

Netflix will be purging dozens of movies and TV shows from its list of free online streaming options starting at the beginning of 2014. One dedicated Redditor was kind enough to post a list of all the movie and shows that will be removed. The list includes excellent movies like Braveheart, Requiem f

Before it was shut down earlier this year, the popular black market for drugs, Silk Road, was responsible for an estimated 18% of all drug purchases in the U.S. The website ran for three years via the Tor network before it was shutdown by the FBI and its founder, known as Dread Pirate Roberts, was a

HTC has had one hell of a rough year with poor sales, a questionable future, and most especially with Nokia’s recent patent win against HTC. The company was hoping to end this rough year quietly so that it could lick its wounds and begin getting back up on its feet, but 2013 isn’t over y

Based on a decade’s research and hundreds of interviews, Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd has concluded that parents are to blame for the next generation’s internet addicted kids. The gist of it is that, in general, parents nowadays are simply too protective of their kids and prefer to ha

By using GPS to log your daily activity, matching your photos to the timeline, and looking up locations using Foursquare, the new app called HeyDay is able to create a photo journal of your life. The app tracks and remembers everything you do and everywhere you go in order to create a photo journal

The NYPD is one of the most well-financed police departments in the world. Demonstrating just how much money the department had, they’re showing off their new “smart car” prototype which they hop will become the next-generation patrol car. Infrared sensor-scanners and cameras all a

Consumers in the U.S. spent over $40 billion online during the holiday season. While this shows about a 10% growth from last year it still failed to meet expectations. comScore blamed the shortened holiday calendar as the reason for the small increase. This is the latest unfortunate event for the e-

There are many industries where 3D printing could prove revolutionary but few more so than the biomedical industry. People are dying every day while they wait for organ transplants that never come. 3D printing could cchange that. While 3D printed organs are still being plagued by a multitude of prob

QuizUp is a trivia app for the iPhone that has managed to rack up over 5 million downloads in the five weeks that it’s been on the App Store. Plain Vanilla Games, the studio behind the app, has already managed to raise $22 million in funding in order to assure that the app won’t be just

Having managed to sell over 400 item every second and reaching over 20 million Amazon Prime members, it’s safe to say that this was a great holiday season for Amazon. According to the company, the 2013 holiday season was its best ever. The growth of Amazon Prime is particularly important to th

Now that Twitter has gone public, the company needs to prove to its shareholders that it can generate money. As it stands, only about half of marketers using Twitter are satisfied with the service. One web strategist, Tim Jensen, even went so far as to advise his clients against using it because of

The British government is considering allowing bank customers to take pictures of checks with their smartphone and cash them in y sending them to their bank instead of going there in person. Banks are claiming that this new method of cashing checks would not only be much faster and more convenient,

The ease-of-use that tablets have means that even young children can navigate and control them. Because of this, many parents who don’t have the time to keep their children constantly entertained simply give them a tablet so that they can entertain themselves. While many parents try and provid

Just a few short months ago, two brothers launched a website called Code.org in an effort to increase participation in STEM education. Two weeks ago, the website began a nationwide campaign called the “Hour of Code” which aimed to to change the perception of Computer Science in the American educatio

Re.mu is a new fashion-based social network created by Alvin Woon that is targeted at style lovers. Woon, who also founded Plurk, says that he wanted to create a site that would attract users who are already showing off their daily outfits on other apps. While Re.mu’s community is still relatively s

NASA has shown off a new squishy, prototype rover that could potentially land on Titan. The rover, called Super Ball Bot, uses cable tension to absorb blows and roll around meaning that it wouldn’t require the usual airbags or parachutes to land. Since the robot collapses into a smaller shape,

While the virtual currency Dogecoin may be named after a humorous meme, it has been considered the potential successor to Bitcoin. However, today for the first time Dogecoin was successfully hacked with Dogewallet users losing an estimated 21 million Dogecoins. While 21 million Dogecoins only equals