California DMV looks into major data breach
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Chinese search engine launches in a market already controlled by Baidu
A new Chinese-language online search engine - Chinaso.com - was launched Friday, marking China's first search service set up by the country's major news organisations. The new engine allows users to...
New smartphone gadget lets you measure the wind
A Kickstarter success has just closed its seed funding round, raising $375,000 to continue its work of measuring the wind using a network of smartphones with a low-cost, electronics-free hardware accessory combined...
U.K. to implement a 20% tax on digital downloads
Buried within the latest budget plan for the UK, Chancellor George Osborne announced new laws that would ensure internet downloads from the likes of iTunes, Google Play Amazon and game...
Twitter is making its TV rating service available in Australia
Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings are to be made available to Australian partners in a move designed to further blur the overlap between TV viewing and social media. The industry-standard TV-metric will...
Raspberry Pi is finally getting HDMI imput
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive little computer-on-a-board with a low-power processor, an Ethernet port, and HDMI output. If you want a video input, y0u can buy an optional camera accessory… but if...
Oppo Find 7 finally launches in China
The Oppo Find 7 has finally been launched by the Chinese manufacturer and it means we now have two QHD (2K) display smartphones on the market.With a resolution of 1440...
4chan user uses GameStop as their own personal bank
GameStop is a retailer where gamers go to buy their computer games and their consoles and maybe some accessories or peripherals. Basically it would hard to mistake GameStop for anything...
Silent Herdsman raises £3 million to track when cows are in heat
Silent Herdsman, the developer of a behavior-monitoring collar for livestock, has attracted £3 million of new investment from Scottish Equity Partners, Albion Ventures, and Scottish Investment Bank. Launched in 2010 as Embedded...
LG enters the connected lighting market with the Smart Lamp
LG has just unveiled the Smart Lamp, its first take on the connected lighting space. The 10W LED bulb gives Android and iOS users a familiar level of control over their illumination, including...
Tor usage in Turkey skyrockets following Twitter ban
Well, it seems that even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and again. It appears from reports that the Turkish government finally figured out how to remedy...
Japanese company is digitizing the Vatican’s priceless archives
Pope Francis is the chillest pope that the Vatican has ever seen: uttering "fuck" at weekly blessings, admiring chocolate statues of himself, picking up hitchhikers in his tricked-out Popemobile. But now the man...
Nintendo is considering bringing Unity support to the 3DS
Developers working on Wii U projects have counted the Unity engine among their options since last year, but support for Unity is still absent from the 3DS. Considering more than 42 million...
Blackberry claims that Ryan’s Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard is a blatant ripoff
Blackberry — which recently celebrated the notable achievement of a zero percent marketshare in the smartphone space — has turned into a patent troll now. In suing Ryan Seacrest’s Typo iPhone...
Playing Tetris could help cure addictions
UK researchers have found that playing a game of Tetris can help reduce cravings for people with addictions. The study, published in scientific journal Appetite, was designed to test Elaborated Intrusion Theory, which suggests...
Tablet shipments expected to reach 200 million by the end of the year
Market research firm ABI Research predicts that tablet shipment is expected to reach 200 million units by end of 2014, which will mark a 20 percent increase in sales for the year....
RoomScan app makes it easy to draw up a floor plan
Now here's a clever idea for an app: using the position sensors in your iPhone, the free RoomScan app creates a pretty accurate floor plan of any room. When you launch the app...
Time Warner Cable issues its first transparency report
Following in the footsteps of many other technology companies, including Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner Cable is issuing its first ever transparency report to the public. The report gives an indication as to the amount...
Doctors save baby’s life using 3D-printed splint
3D printing doesn't have to be limited to tchotchkes. The production method has already proven its utility in surgery, and now a doctor has used 3D printing to help save a...
NSA reportedly hacked into Huawei servers
The NSA has sought to create back doors into the networks of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies in an effort to learn whether the company was spying on behalf of...