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The Interview nears 1 million torrent downloads in less than a day

North Korea had hoped that they would be able to cyberbully Sony from releasing The Interview as well as the rest of the world from seeing it. They seem to...

LG and Mercedes-Benz are developing a new camera system

LG and Mercedes-Benz are jointly exploring the design of next-generation camera systems for automated driving, allowing the driver to transfer some driving tasks to the intelligent vehicle. The collaboration investigates...

Online car purchasing will happen in 2015

You can buy just about anything you want online: electronics, computers, food, homes, even islands. Outside of eBay and the occasional private sale, cars have avoided the eCommerce trends. Today,...

MIT is developing a new programming language

A new programming language is being built at MIT, and it's taking "the grunt work out of Web development." Dubbed "Ur/Web," the language is meant to make Web applications not only...

PrintSnap wants to bring back instant camera using receipt paper

Here’s a new twist on an old concept: The instant camera. PrintSnap, a self-contained camera now in the planning stages by electrical engineer Michael Ciuffo, will use standard cash register receipt...

OnePlus can now sell smartphones in India again, at least for now

Earlier this month, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus stopped sales in India after a New Delhi court upheld a complaint by rival Micromax. Now the ban has been lifted and OnePlus...

The FBI was warned of a cyberattack like Sony’s back in 2013

The Sony Pictures hack and its resulting fallout may have caught many people by surprise, but not the FBI -- it apparently suspected for months that something like this might...

Barnes & Noble buys back $27.7 million in Nook stock from Pearson

Barnes & Noble has paid Pearson $27.7 million in cash and stock to buy back its stake in the company’s Nook e-reader business, giving the bookseller chain full control over...

The FCC somehow lost a bunch of net neutrality comments

The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that more than half a million public comments were, in fact, missing from the bulk download that the agency had shared with the...

Dish explains why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal is a bad idea

The Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is that rare proposal that’s such a bad idea that it actually brings people of all different political beliefs together. If you look at the...

Sony’s game-streaming service is coming to Samsung smart TVs

PlayStation Now is Sony’s new streaming service that lets gamers stream games over the internet. Now it seems gamers will not have to own a console in order to use...

Travelling to Mars could get a whole lot easier on the near future

Humans have sent several unmanned probes to Mars and plans are in the works to mount crewed missions to the Red Planet within the next couple of decades. But it's...

This Firefox OS-powered phone has a translucent chassis

A new phone that runs Firefox OS is launching in Japan on Christmas Day, and it's a looker. The Fx0 phone has an unusual feature that makes it stand out next...

Singapore wants to create an autonomous car version of Uber

One of the greatest allures of self-driving cars is the prospect of never needing your own vehicle, you could just catch robotic rides whenever you want personal transportation. Well, Singapore is...

One simple mistake led to the biggest hack on a US bank in history

The cyber attack on JPMorgan Chase in mid-2014 was the largest computer breach ever for a US bank. More than 80 million consumers and small businesses had their personal information...

This 3D-printed dress actually defends itself

Silk? Meh. Taffeta? Blergh. When it came time to craft her latest dress, Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht instead turned to 3D printing and one of Intel's teensy Edison modules for...

Smarthones with 4GB of RAM are now possible thanks to Samsung

Even if you don’t like Samsung’s phones, you should still appreciate the company as a whole. Why? Because as even Apple will admit, it’s a great components supplier and its...

E-books may actually be bad for your health

The more you read about the wonders of modern day technology, accompanying it would also be their corresponding dangers, making you wonder whether you would be better off increasing your...

This website will pay you to read pirated articles

Don't like that many of the big, traditional news outlets hide the online editions of their stories behind paywalls? Neither does artist Paolo Cirio, who designed Daily Paywall as a...

Thailand’s 33 million LINE users are monitored by the government

ICT Minister Pornchai Rujiprapa at a press conference yesterday said Thai authorities “can monitor all of the nearly 40 million Line messages sent by people in Thailand each day,” according...