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Uber helps riders avoid surge pricing with Surge Drop feature

Uber, the San Francisco-based car service that will find you thanks to an app on your smartphone, got a lot of ink and took a lot of heat around New...

Pizza Hut’s concept table lets you visualize your order as you construct it

With hundreds of mom and pop shops in the New York area, it's been upwards of a decade since I've stepped foot in a Pizza Hut. But the fast food...

ID-checking palm scanners could be coming to smartphones courtesy of Fujitsu

While others obsess over fingers, Fujitsu wants your palms instead. Going against the flow, it plans to employ palm-vein scanning on smartphones in the future. The company, who is one of its...

Five years and 5.7 million donors later Kickstarter reaches the $1 billion milestone

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has reached a new milestone. Total Kickstarter pledges have surpassed $1 billion, the company announced Monday. The total came from 5.7 million donors, and half of the sum was pledged...

Samsung teases the Galaxy S5 at the Oscars

Don’t expect to learn anything new from it, as it’s just a teaser, but you can watch above the 30-second TV ad for the Samsung Galaxy S5 shown during the Oscars. The...

Encrypted messaging app Wickr manages to raise $9 million in funding

The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security in an NSA-watched world have created a perfect storm for apps that offer messaging with a privacy-first ethos....

Galaxy S5 buyers to receive $500 in digital freebies from Samsung

Although Samsung has yet not revealed the pricing for its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, the South Korean giant is all set with more than $500 worth of freebies...

Adap.tv to begin selling linear TV commercials through its ad-buying platform

AOL says it has begun selling television ads through its programmatic video exchange, Adap.tv as it looks to take a bite out of the $68.5 billion dollar television advertising pie. But there's only one...

Over 300,000 computers hacked by two IP addresses in London

Two IP addresses based in London have managed to hijack more than 300,000 internet routers, according to security researchers in Wales. A paper by 'Team Cymru' said that the massive hack had...

New app helps you read more words-per-minute

Spritz is a company that makes a speed-reading technology which allows you to get through a mass of text, reading every word, in a fraction of the time it would...

Scientists equip sharks with wearable cameras

Sure, Sharknado and Sharktopus are fun to watch with friends on a weekend, but they also prove that sharks still get a bad rap. Clearly, what we've learned about the animal's behavior since Jaws came out isn't nearly enough, so...

American Express launches very mobile-friendly, rewards-focused credit card

AmEx has offered a number of different cards to consumers: The Blue Card appeals to those who like cash back options and the Platinum card is specialized for consumers who...

Reddit wants the community to decide which charity will receive 10% of its revenue

This year Reddit is contributing more than memes to society, it's passing out cash. In a blog post today the site announced plans to donate 10 percent of its advertising revenue for...

Steam Family Sharing leaves beta, launches for all Steam users

Steam Family Sharing, the service that allows for sharing of a Steam library between multiple individuals and computers, is now available to all Steam users. The service can be enabled for...

BlackBerry adds multi-person image chats and larger file transfers to BBM

A couple of weeks ago, BlackBerry updated its popular BBM app to version 2.0 with a number of new features, including BBM Voice and BBM Channels. Now, the company has announced that even more...

What will happen every person in Iceland will receive a free cryptocurrency?

The cryptocurrency craze spun into a new realm of ridiculous with Kanyecoin, Dogecoin, Ron Paul Coin and the bounty of other clone-coins that sprung up to ride the Bitcoin wave. But the...

Nifflas and KnapNok team up to create Affordable Space Adventures

A trailer released this week for Affordable Space Adventures teases an atmospheric stealth puzzle game headed to the Wii U with the budget conscious space traveler in mind. Affordable Space Adventures puts players in the...

Up to 25% of IBM’s hardware division is being laid off

IBM recently sold its x86 server business to Lenovo, and that unfortunately has consequences for the company's workers. The computing pioneer has confirmed that it's cutting jobs as it concentrates its efforts on "cloud,...

Modder wants to give the Nintendo 64 digital outputs

If you have a Nintendo 64 kicking around, it's probably not hooked up to your television. It's not that you don't love the classic console, it's just that manymodern sets don't support the machine's archaic video...

TSA inspects man’s luggage look for… Bitcoin

Davi Baker wasn’t quite sure how to comply with the TSA’s demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during...