David Pogue joins Yahoo
As announced on their newly acquired Tumblr property, David Pogue is now with Yahoo. I am thrilled to announce that award-winning columnist, best-selling author, and TV host David Pogue will...
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How the iMessage hack works
If you ask Apple, iMessage is completely secure. If you ask hackers, security specialists, bloggers, competitors, consumers, or the NSA, it's child's play. Hackers this week showed security conference attendees...
The ongoing subversion of Wikipedia
All it has is its credibility. The crowdsourced hub for human knowledge has challenges in the form of PR firms bent on making things more correct for their clients than...
How VC funding has changed since 1995
Here's a look back to the past of the world of technology cash... Earlier today, PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association released a report showing that total venture capital spending in the U.S....
Keep your guns safe with fingerprint scanner
The fear of an intruder taking your gun can be alleviated with this fingerprint scanning lock box... unless they chop off your hand first, of course. When guns fall into...
Clever spammers circumvent Twitter safeguards
You can't keep a good spammer down. That's the unofficial motto of those who are using Twitter's crackdown on Direct Message link spam. When sending Twitter direct messages with links stopped...
A tech investment story that doesn’t involve VCs
It's a win and a loss at the same time when companies take investments. Yes, they get money to fund their projects, but they also lose a measure of control...
Tech surge coming to fix government site
You've heard of the war surge. Now we're going to get a tech surge that is intended to make getting insurance as easy as 1-2-4. The Department of Health and...
Fans of next-gen games need to find perspective
It's definitely exciting to see the new platforms coming out with their amazing games and cool features, but the reality is that it's all getting overblown. We’re now a scant...
Investors think Twitter needs more patents
Those who are outside of the business world of technology often do not realize the importance of patents. Savvy investors get it. Will Twitter? Profits aren’t the only thing lacking...
NSA hacked Mexican President
Nobody is safe in NSA's reign of terror. The National Security Agency (NSA) has a division for particularly difficult missions. Called "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO), this department devises special methods...
Amazon tax thrown out in Illinois
Is this a one-off incident or will the dominoes soon fall in Amazon's favor? The Illinois Supreme Court struck down a state law Friday that required online retailers, like Amazon,...
Battlefield 4 will have multiplayer women
Girl gamers are starting to emerge as a larger portion of the first-person shooter world. Now, they'll finally be able to play multiplayer Battlefield as their own gender. "Yes, but...
The US Navy puts Linux to work
The open source software adored by geeks around the world will be loved by naval officers and their crew as the latest and greatest defense technology prepares to hit the...
How Twitter made it this far
They started off as a side project for internal communications for a small startup. It's now about to go public. Here's Twitter's story so far... In the fall of 2010,...
Narrative meets interaction in Device 6
If you're a gamer that likes a strong narrative and games that immerse you, Device 6 might be your next mobile download. Mobile games typically fall into one of two...
Twitter music app is probably dying
It's always tough to pull the plug on a project, but Twitter Music has been on life-support since it was launched half a year ago. Just six months after launching...
Could the US lose power if the electrical grid is hacked?
Infrastructure is arguably the most important component holding together western society. The utility and transportation grids keep us from falling apart in many ways. Could hackers cripple the country with...
MIT prize winning invention regulates body temperature
Sometimes you're too hot. Other times you're too cold. This little device is designed to make you just right all the time. Heating or cooling certain parts of your body...
Corruption at Wikipedia?
It isn't just homework assignments that are getting influenced by the rise of Wikipedia. The donations themselves might be getting some improper treatment according to an outgoing chief. When Wikipedia...