This 13-year-old has come up with a way to bring cyberbullying to an end
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...
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The FCC is pushing for all mobile providers to provide free 911 texting
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...
LINE is investing $100 million into mobile games
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...
Disney is delving into the world of 3D printing
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...
The FCC has condemned Verizon’s plans to throttle “unlimited” LTE users
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...
Japan and the US are developing an eco-friendly submarine
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...
CareDox has raised $3.1 million to make it easier to share medical records
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...
John McAfee made a surprise appearance at a hacker conference
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 judge has rejected Silicon Valley’s anti-poaching settlement
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...
Spotify has started sending out invites to Canadian users
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...
Dell is developing mood-reading software for the workplace
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,...
Quettra has raised $2.9 million to compile information on mobile users
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...
Gemalto is acquiring SafeNet for $890 million
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,...
T-Mobile has released an app for unlocking your phone
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...
Tons of information on the upcoming Nexus 8 has been leaked
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...
Wikipedia founder calls “right to be forgotten” law “deeply immoral”
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has today branded the EU's Right to be Forgotten ruling as a "deeply immoral" and dangerous step towards the "sanitisation of human knowledge." "History...
T-Mobile expects to pass Sprint in subscriber numbers by the year’s end
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...
Authors have banded together to get an anti-Amazon ad on the NY Times
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,...
All of California is expected to run on renewable energy by 2050
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...
Sony is taking on LG and Samsung with a curved 4K TV
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...