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Five high-ranking Samsung executives mysteriously leave

For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, five high-ranking executives at Samsung have left or have given notice to leave in the past few months. According to sources speaking with CNET, the...

webOS team turns Mochi design language into an open source project

It’s been almost three years since HP decided to scrap all of its webOS hardware and in that time some of the software has been released as an open source...

Valve sells 10,000 Dota 2 International Championship tickets in an hour

Valve has sold all of about 10,000 tickets for its 2014 Dota 2 International Championship, the company has confirmed. "Tickets were gone roughly one hour after they went on sale", Valve's Doug Lombardi...

Qualcomm could triple the speed of your Wi-Fi

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...

Will.i.am is releasing his own smartwatch

Could the dark horse smartwatch of the year come from technology savant will.i.am? The accessory maker this week appeared on a British TV show and showed off what he says...

eBay adds a new Virtual Currency category to their sales site

eBay has quietly added a new category that allows users to buy and sell items related to cryptocurrency including actual virtual currency, mining rigs and mining contracts. In a statement to TechCrunch on the matter,...

Get your groceries delivered to your door with Amazon Dash

It seems a little bit like something from a retro-futurist’s dream: Tell a small handheld device your grocery list, and it’ll go ahead and prepare an order that will be...

Sprint will pay you to switch from another carrier

T-Mobile may have stolen the spotlight earlier this year by paying customers to switch, but it looks like Sprint is cooking up a similar deal in response. An S4GRU leak has revealed a Sprint...

Veteran reporter loses her job for checking her email

Almost 13 years after starting at Eugene’s local daily paper, The Register-Guard, reporter Serena Markstrom Nugent was fired while on pregnancy disability leave from the paper where she had worked since...

Globalfoundaries rumored to be buying IBM’s chip business

You really have to wonder what, exactly, IBM will look like in a year. Talk revived this week about the tech giant trying to sell off its chip business, with...

Computer teaches other computer how to play Pac-Man

Children of the 1980s spent hours perfecting the art of playing Namco’s Pac-Man computer game. And now computers are teaching each other to play the popular game, which sees a player...

The Elder Scrolls Online beta had over 5 million registrations

To say The Elder Scrolls is a popular IP would be an understatement. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimrecently surpassed the 20 million sales milestone. So what does that mean for The Elder...

Encrypted chat app CryptoCat isn’t secure by any means

People in the security community often criticize the code behind Cryptocat, an open-source encrypted instant messaging project. Ironically, Cryptocat’s policy of publicly releasing third-party code audits is what generates much of the...

BBC extends catch-up window on BBC iPlayer from 7 to 30 days

Remember when the BBC's latest chief pledged to revamp the iPlayer? His bosses at the BBC Trust have just rubber-stamped the decision to extend the catch-up window from seven days to 30....

Opticians say using your smartphone too much can damage your eyes

I suppose it makes perfect sense – if you were to push parts of your body to the extreme or over the edge, there is bound to be pain, discomfort...

Energy software company Opower prices its IPO at $19 per share

Arlington-based energy software provider Opower went public Friday morning in an offering that could raise $115.9 million for the company. Opower intends to sell 6.1 million shares at $19 each. It will trade...

Numari makes it easy to purchase dresses

Cherry trees aren’t the only things getting ready to blossom around Washington this spring. Arti Anand, 30, and Komal Kushal Raj, 33, cooked up a new women’s fashion Web sitethat could launch as...

T-Mobile offers BlackBerry users a $100 credit toward any device

T-Mobile head honcho John Legere's assuring its BlackBerry-toting subscribers they've got nothing to worry about despite the companies' falling out. But, just in case they are worried, or just want to...

Beijing-based Cheetah Mobile files for a U.S. IPO

Kingsoft Corporation announced two months ago that it would spin off a business unit for Internet security and other services and list its shares in the U.S. Now, the spinoff, Cheetah Mobile,...

Samsung makes major breakthrough in new “wonder material”

Samsung has made a breakthrough in a new 'wonder material' poised to build the next generation of wearable technology. The company's biggest brains have cooked up a technique for growing graphene...