Foxconn to invest $40M in Pennsylvania connected to new factory
Foxconn is following in the steps of some other manufacturers, who are relocating facilities to the US at the behest of clients wanting to be seen as keeping jobs in the...
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Sony is to cut $250 million from its movie division
One of Sony's biggest shareholders has pleaded with the company to detach Sony Entertainment from the Japanese company and offer it up on the stock market as a standalone business. CEO Hirai declined the...
Intel chairman ’embarrassed’ that company had lost its way
Speaking during a day-long meeting with investors at the company's HQ, Intel chairman Andy Bryant admitted how ill-prepared the company had been for the transition from the PC to post-PC devices and...
Smithsonian creates digital 3D archive of historic artifacts available for viewing and printing
Several museums have been experimenting with 3D scanning and printing for historic artifacts but the Smithsonian Institution is first to actually create a digital 3D archive of historic artifacts that are available for viewing...
Spotify closes $250 million in funding, valued at over $4 billion
Spotify, a Swedish music streaming service, has closed $250 million in funding and is being valued at over $4 billion. Pandora, the largest player in the streaming music market, is currently valued...
A university in Cyprus now accepts payments from students in Bitcoin
University of Nicosia in Cyprus has become the first accredited university in the world to accept payments from students in Bitcoin. The University of Nicosia in Cyprus today announced it will accept payments...
A new era is dawning, one where everything is automatically encrypted by defult
People used to consider encryption more of a luxury than a necessity, but that all changed when information on the NSA's spying came to light. Now people, companies, and entire...
Wikipedia blames Texas PR firm for skewing hundreds of entries
The Wikimedia Foundation launched an investigation last month that found a Texas-based public relations firm creating hundreds of fake Wikipedia entries on behalf of its clients. The Wikimedia Foundation this week accused a Texas-based public relations firm...
Circuit Scribe lets you doodle circuit designs on a piece of paper
Circuit Scribe, a Kickstarter project aiming to make it easier to prototype electronics, has designed a rollerball pen with conductive silver ink inside that lets you doodle circuit designs on a piece of...
Neuromarketing technology can show brands how customers will react to their next ad
A company called Synetiq is using crowdsourced neuromarketing to show brands how customers will react to their next ad. By tracking neural activity, the company can identify exactly when testers are feeling engaged, excited,...
Sweden’s National Housing Board orders a hotel made of ice to install fire alarms
Most modern governments seem to be incapable of allowing sensible exceptions to their rules even in instances where the implementation of those rules would be silly unneeded. In one such...
Mobile carriers reject smartphone ‘kill switch’ because it could be misused by hackers
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón have been pushing for a 'kill switch' that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen to be...
Dual-screen YotaPhone will be hitting stores next month
Several smartphones have been announced or released that offer things like full HD display, curved screens, or flexible screens but the YotaPhone is the only one that offers dual screens. The...
This precision beard trimmer projects a laser onto your face
Trimming your beard has always been a guessing game about evenness, and more often than not there are noticeable mistakes made. Fortunately, the new Philips Norelco Beardtrimmer Series 9000 projects a laser...
After 15 years, AOL will finally be shutting down Winamp
Winamp was originally popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, thanks to its small download size and flexibility, and this is why AOL acquired Winamp's parent company, Nullsoft, in 1999...
Acer’s next CEO steps down before he even starts
Just 15 days after CEO and Chairman JT Wang stepped down, the man set to replace him, Jim Wong, has also left the business. Acer announces that its Board of Directors has...
Nonprofit space exploration group needs NASA support for private mission to Mars
The Inspiration Mars project, which is led by multimillionaire Dennis Tito, wants to partner with NASA in order to use the space-agency's equipment and expertise as well as a bit of federal money...
Half of all the active users on Twitter come from just five countries
Statista, an online statistics portal, has created a chart using data from PeerReach that shows which countries Twitter's active users live in. With "active users" being defined as those who tweet,...
Massive study in the U.K. finds that video games have no negative impact on children
The University of Glasgow has finished a study of 11,000 kids that focused on whether TV or video games could be associated with attention disorder, anger, or other emotional problems. The...
Valve publishes a Q&A on Steam In-Home Streaming
Valve has announced several new features for Steam in the past few months in celebration of the software's 10th anniversary. One of the announcements was Steam In-Home Streaming, a new way...