5 vulnerabilities the NSA can use on your smartphone
No, the NSA can't magically hack all iPhones and smartphones, but just like malware developers, it has more than a few tricks up its sleeve for retrieving data stored on...
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Twitter takes first step to go public in 140 characters or less
Twitter, which began as a side project in a small but failing start-up seven years ago and grew into one of the world’s largest platforms for public conversation, is about...
Miley Cyrus and Vevo dominate MTV
Earlier this week, Miley Cyrus rode a wrecking ball into the record books. Her new Terry Richardson-directed music video—in which she swings around naked on a wrecking ball while crooning about...
Zynga’s fall from grace
In Zynga's July 2011 prospectus to future shareholders, company founder and CEO Mark Pincus outlined his firm's ambitious plan to take over the gaming world. "My kids decided a few months ago...
Dell shareholders approve buyout
Dell Inc. (DELL) Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell won shareholder approval for a planned $24.9 billion buyout, capping a seven-month standoff with investors and gaining free rein to attempt a turnaround...
Inside the life of a Vine superstar
A nerdy loner snorting obscene amounts of cocaine out of a giant tube. An incredibly detailed Super Mario Bros. mushroom-transformation starring a canine plumber. A grotesque real-life Little Mermaid and...
10 good reasons Buzzfeed is going to pay me
Last week (although by the time I post this it’ll be two weeks) BuzzFeed posted a highly successful “listical” 18 Everyday Products You’ve Been Using Wrong], it went viral and you...
Verizon’s diabolical plan
Think of all the things that tick you off about cable TV. Along with brainless programming and crummy customer service, the very worst aspect of it is forced bundling. You...
Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800M
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer...
Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets
Mark Zuckerberg joins Mayer in hitting back at critics of tech companies, saying US government did 'bad job' of balancing people's privacy and duty to protect. Marissa Mayer, the CEO...
Cyberwar is on: America’s elite hacker army
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America’s most badass hackers are going to war – working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy drink as...
NSA shares intelligence data with Israel
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data withIsrael without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details...
Made in America: inside Motorola’s new Moto X factory
The Moto X is a return to form for Motorola, and it represents the first device it has produced from start to finish as a Google company. But while the...
Moore’s law still alive: Intel reveals 14 nm PC
IDF13 Intel wants you to know that Moore's Law is not dead. And to prove it, CEO Brian Krzanich rolled out his company's next generation of process shrinkage at theIntel Developer...
The chart Tim Cook doesn’t want you to see
At Apple’s iPhone presentation today, Tim Cook presented the following chart. At best the chart is misleading; at worst it’s disingenuous. The chart has no scale. It could be showing billions of iPhone...
World’s best Star Trek teleportation prank amazes UK mall crowd
The key to a good prank is to get the right people to pull it off. In this case, if you're going to try to fool hundreds of onlookers at...
NSA violated court-ordered privacy standards for three years
The National Security Agency's searches of a database containing the phone records of nearly all Americans violated privacy protections for three years by failing to meet a court-ordered standard, according...
$2,250 Samsung Galaxy S3 goes on sale in Germany
Take the year and a half old Galaxy S III, modify it to be ultra secure, and then charge 1700 Eurosfor it. That’s exactly what just happened in Germany. This new...
Samsung is even getting sued for their vacuums now
When a new Samsung product launches, can a patent-related lawsuit be far behind?BBC News reports that British manufacturer Dyson has filed a patent lawsuit against Samsung because its newest vacuum cleaner is allegedly a “cynical ripoff”...
CA school district to track students’ social media accounts
The Glendale School District in California is facing some backlash from the recent news that it has retained the services of Geo Listening to track its students' social media activity. The...