Even in areas where carrying a gun is both legal and socially acceptable, there’s always going to be people who aren’t comfortable with the idea. Kirk Kjellberg experienced this first-hand when he was at a restaurant and a kid noticed the gun that he was legally carrying and po
Yahoo’s financial woes have forced the company to put all of its focus on the businesses that are actually making money, while everything else is either being put on the back burner or killed off entirely. Most of the company’s digital magazines will be suffering the latter fat
It’s been almost a decade since Volvo announced its ambitious plan to make it virtually impossible to be injured or killed in one of its vehicles, and it looks like that plan is making some serious progress, enough that the Swedish automaker is confident that it can achieve that goal within th
T-Mobile CEO John Legere is nothing if not brazen, often to the amusement and respect of the people on the Internet, but his curse-riddled rant against the Electronic Frontier Foundation last week attracted nothing but criticism, especially from his customers. In response to the EFF’s claim th
Elon Musk gets a lot of attention for potentially revolutionizing the automotive industry with Tesla Motors, but SpaceX is Musk’s truly revolutionary company. SpaceX was founded with the goal of making space travel more feasible, and one of the ways the company wants to do that is by creating
It does look as though when it comes to the year 2014 among tech companies in the U.S., T-Mobile has experienced a far more remarkable year than the rest of the pack – at least this is what CNN reported. T-Mobile did their fair share of actions in 2014, thanks to its “Un-carrier” marketing push that
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
Why did Netflix decide to cave in and pay Comcast for a better direct connection to its network? Because apparently slow Netflix streaming on Comcast was costing the company customers. CNN reports that Netflix this week explained to the Federal Communications Commission that the quality of Netflix s
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
Foxconn’s six manufacturing sites in Vietnam won’t be assembling iPhones and iPads this weekend — or anything else, for that matter. The Taiwan-based electronics supplier, which manufactures gadgets for Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, and others, is suspending operations in Vietnam for at least three days
Wi-Fi speeds in homes, offices, and public networks could triple very soon. Qualcomm, an American tech giant, says seven years of research have yielded MU-MIMO, a new approach that allows wireless routers and access points to faster transmit data to multiple groups of users simultaneously using prop
Just like a big, rich kid, Elon Musk does exactly what he wants. His latest endeavor – building a car that operates under water. When the car-turned-submarine from the 007 classic “The Spy Who Loved Me” was sold at auction in September for nearly a million dollars, the identity of