Watch out for US border laptop searches
Documents released today as a result of the House v. Napolitano settlement document the systematic use of laptop searches at the US border to evade the need to get a warrant to read Americans'...
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Business Insider CTO forced to resign because of tweets
Pax Dickinson has been forced to resign as chief technology officer at Business Insider following an online firestorm over his long history of controversial tweets, according to a source who has...
PayPal introduces hands-free payments
In a bid to dominate the physical retail experience, PayPal unveils a Bluetooth communicator that takes in-store payments hands-free. PayPal unveiled another cornerstone in its vision for the future of...
‘The Internet Must Go’ – a mockumentary
A new "mockumentary" called The Internet Must Go launched today, in conjunction with the latest court hearing in the Verizon case against the FCC over the FCC's net neutrality rules....
The beast is back: The FCC’s net neutrality case gets its day in court
Lawyers for Verizon and the FCC are stepping up Monday to argue over the future of network neutrality before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday. The case, which...
105 years in jail for posting a link?
A few months ago I passed along the story of Barrett Brown, a young journalist/activist who relentlessly followed up on documents leaked by Anonymous, was targeted for this by the FBI,...
Yahoo intern’s logo design was way better
Yahoo unveiled a new company logo last week, but it appears one of the designers who helped come up with the concept may have had other ideas. After the new logo...
The most expensive video game ever made
Budgets for video games are a bit of grey area, but if this report from Scottish newspaper The Scotsman is to be believed, then Grand Theft Auto V is the most expensive...
500 tweets could land you in jail in China
China is in the middle of yet another crackdown on what it terms "online rumors", as the government tries to rein in social media, increasingly used by Chinese people to discuss...
Man remodels internet as one giant computer
Google runs its web empire on computers the size of warehouses. Inside the massive data centers that drive things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps, you’ll find tens of thousands...
NSA backdoor to domestic emails reopened secretly in 2011
Up is down and down is up if you’re watching closely enough to what has been happening at the NSA and with the Obama administration the last few years. The...
Oyster’s “Netflix for books” may be the service avid readers have wanted
Oyster has already established a compelling elevator pitch: “Netflix for books.” Pay a monthly fee, get access to an unlimited number of 100,000 titles available in Oyster’s app. The app is...
Sony beats Samsung to the smartwatch punch but will anyone care?
It’s too bad for Samsung this time because Sony has revealed its latest version of the SmartWatch. Samsung was just a few hours late when it announced its new Samsung...
Samsung and Qualcomm fail to launch the smartwatch revolution
Everybody's been waiting for the smartwatch revolution to begin, and for major companies (other than Sony) to unveil their long-awaited offerings in this new era of mobility. Samsung announced this...
Kim Dotcom teases new music service… BABOOM
December 2011, a month before the criminal proceeding against Megaupload became public, Kim Dotcom first revealed his plans to launch a new service to transform the music business. At the time the...
Amazon will reportedly give away its smartphone for free
The phone would be free, no wireless contract necessary, and sold on Amazon.com or through wireless carriers, according to unnamed sources. Amazon is going to give away its long-rumored smartphone for free,...
Yahoo says US sought data on over 40,000+ users in 2013
Yahoo said Friday that it has received 12,444 requests for data from the U.S. government so far this year that covers the accounts of 40,322 users overall. In its first government transparency...
Electronics superstore asks interviewee to dance to Daft Punk during interview
A university graduate says he was left humiliated after being asked to dance to a Daft Punk song during a job interview at an electronics superstore. Alan Bacon, 21, thought working...
Elon Musk shows off his Iron Man inspired 3D modeling setup
Elon Musk, the world’s busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling setup he tweeted about last week. Because people don’t compare him to...
This Russian software is taking over the internet
Automattic was replacing the web server software that underpins its popular WordPress blogging platform, and things weren’t going well. This was 2008, and the company was intent on moving WordPress to...